1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002007580203316

Autore

VICTOR, Paul-Emile

Titolo

Boreal ; La joie dans la nuit : illustré de nombreux croquies et de cartes par l'auteur / Paul-Emile Victor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Grasset, 1938

Descrizione fisica

444 p. ; in 16°, 17 cm

Collana

Le livre de poche

Collocazione

VI.4. Coll.13/ 272(II F D 1 285)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959275903321

Autore

McHale Brian

Titolo

Postmodernist fiction / / Brian McHale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Methuen, 1987

ISBN

1-134-94916-2

1-134-94917-0

1-280-02217-5

0-203-39332-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

809

809.304

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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