A series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels, including such authors as Joyce, Eco, Acker, and the writers of cyberpunk science fiction. Focused mainly on "art" novels, this book relates them to phenomena of popular culture, such as films, TV, nuclear apocalypse and death. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 657. . 1993. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Constructing Postmodernism
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415060133
ISBN 13: 9780415060134
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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Brian McHale is Senior Lecturer in Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel-Aviv University, and Co-Editor of Poetics Today.

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