Postmodernist Fiction

Mchale, Brian

ISBN 10: 0415045134 / ISBN 13: 9780415045131

Published by Routledge, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmodernist Fiction
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415045134
• ISBN 13: 9780415045131
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.

About the Author

Brian McHale is Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University, USA.