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Constructing postmodernism by Brian McHale is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Constructing postmodernism about?
"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, Le
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brian McHale
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781135083564
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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