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- catalog abstract ""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 of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum; the novels of James McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Aker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker, and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products, Constructing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always, the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987) seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and intersecting inventoriesnot a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions. - Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b4007166.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""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 of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum; the novels of James McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Aker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker, and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products, Constructing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always, the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987) seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and intersecting inventoriesnot a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions. - Publisher description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-324) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 342 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415060133 :".
- catalog identifier "0415060141 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "809.3/04 20".
- catalog subject "Fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN3503 .M37 1992".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Science fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Science fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Constructing postmodernism / Brian McHale.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".