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UNINA9910450984503321 |
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Autore |
McHale Brian |
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Titolo |
Postmodernist fiction / / Brian McHale |
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New York : , : Methuen, , 1987 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-94917-0 |
1-280-02217-5 |
0-203-39332-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Postmodernism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; From modernist to postmodernist fiction: change of dominant; Some ontologies of fiction; In the zone; Worlds in collision; A world next door; Real, compared to what?; Worlds under erasure; Chinese-box worlds; Tropological worlds; Styled worlds; Worlds of discourse; Worlds on paper; Authors: dead and posthumous; Love and death in the post-modernist novel; Coda: the sense of Joyce's endings; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Like it or not, the term `postmodernism' seems to have lodged itself in our critical and theoretical discourses. We have a postmodern architecture, a postmodern dance, perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition. But do we have a postmodernist fiction? 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 |
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