02988nam 2200697Ia 450 991095927590332120250915115355.01-134-94916-21-134-94917-01-280-02217-50-203-39332-510.4324/9780203393321(CKB)1000000000252800(EBL)179146(OCoLC)71195880(SSID)ssj0000821461(PQKBManifestationID)11456237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821461(PQKBWorkID)10871156(PQKB)10354847(SSID)ssj0000071191(PQKBManifestationID)11123230(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071191(PQKBWorkID)10091676(PQKB)11776614(MiAaPQ)EBC179146(Au-PeEL)EBL179146(CaPaEBR)ebr10061120(CaONFJC)MIL813616(OCoLC)826515059(EXLCZ)99100000000025280019861118d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostmodernist fiction /Brian McHale1st ed.New York Methuen19871 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-416-36390-3 0-415-04513-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexLike 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 includingFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPostmodernismFictionHistory and criticism.Postmodernism.809809.304McHale Brian131837MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959275903321Postmodernist fiction143636UNINA