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Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco''s Foucault''s Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

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Introducing Constructing; Part 1 Narrating Literary Histories; Chapter 1 Telling Postmodernist Stories; Chapter 2 Constructing (Post)Modernism; Part 2 (Mis)Reading Pynchon; Chapter 3 Modernist Reading, Postmodernist Text; Chapter 4 “You Used to Know What these Words Mean”; Chapter 5 Zapping, the Art of Switching Channels; Part 3 Reading Postmodernists; Chapter 6 The (Post)Modernism of the Name of the Rose; Chapter 7 Ways of World-Making; Chapter 8 Women and Men and Angels; Chapter 9 “I Draw the Line as a Rule between One Solar System and Another”; Part 4 At the Interface; Chapter 10 Postcybermodernpunkism; Chapter 11 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk;

Constructing Postmodernism

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 7 January 1993
      ISBN-13 9780415060134
      978-0415060134
      ISBN-10 0415060133

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco''s Foucault''s Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

      Table of Contents

      Introducing Constructing; Part 1 Narrating Literary Histories; Chapter 1 Telling Postmodernist Stories; Chapter 2 Constructing (Post)Modernism; Part 2 (Mis)Reading Pynchon; Chapter 3 Modernist Reading, Postmodernist Text; Chapter 4 “You Used to Know What these Words Mean”; Chapter 5 Zapping, the Art of Switching Channels; Part 3 Reading Postmodernists; Chapter 6 The (Post)Modernism of the Name of the Rose; Chapter 7 Ways of World-Making; Chapter 8 Women and Men and Angels; Chapter 9 “I Draw the Line as a Rule between One Solar System and Another”; Part 4 At the Interface; Chapter 10 Postcybermodernpunkism; Chapter 11 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk;

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