Constructing postmodernism /

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"Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact." Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novelsJoyce's Ulysses; Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland; Eco's The Name...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McHale, Brian
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Subjects:
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/92016210-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • Telling postmodernist stories
  • Constructing (post)modernism : the case of Ulysses
  • Modernist reading, postmodernist text : the case of Gravity's rainbow (1979)
  • "You used to know what these words mean" : misreading Gravity's rainbow (1985)
  • Zapping, the art of switching channels : on Vineland
  • The (post)modernism of The name of the rose
  • Ways of world-making : on Foucault's pendulum
  • Women and men and angels : on Joseph McElroy's fiction
  • "I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another" : the postmodernism(s) of Christine Brooke-Rose
  • POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM
  • Towards a poetics of cyberpunk

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