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Soft cover. Condition: Good. "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 novels Joyce'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 inventories not a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions." - Publisher description. This is an Ex-library copy.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 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 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.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon. Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading.

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Softcover. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Some corner tips curled. Wraps have edge rubbing, wear to corner tips. Contents: Smith, "Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value." Michaels, "Against Formalism: The Autonomous Text in Legal and Literary Interpretation." Perry, "Literary Dynamics: How the Order of a Text Creates Its Meanings: With an Analysis of Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'" Tamir-Ghez, Nomi, "The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov's Lolita." Mooij, "The Nature and Funciton of Literary Theories." Culler, "Semiotics and Deconstruction." Van Dijk, "Cognitive Processing of Literary Discourse." Lotman, "The Origin of Plot in the Light of Typology." Weinshheimer, "Theory of Character: Emma." Cureton, "e. e. cummings: A Study of the Poetic Use oof Deviant Morphology." Ziva Ben-Porat, "Method in Madness: Notes on the Structure of Parody Based on MAD TV Satires." John J. Gumperz, "The Retrieval of Sociocultural Knowledge in Conversation." Itamar Even-Zohar, "Polysystem Theory." Hrushovski, "The Structure of Semiotic Objects." Rolf Kloepfer, "Trends in West German Literary Semiotics." Reviews. 9.0" tall; 416 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Condition: new. The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading. Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: New. The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading.

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Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. Folio, newsprint, 24 pp. Pages yellowed, edgeworn.

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