LEADER 02973oam 2200685I 450 001 9910783842303321 005 20230331005313.0 010 $a1-134-94916-2 010 $a1-134-94917-0 010 $a1-280-02217-5 010 $a0-203-39332-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203393321 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252800 035 $a(EBL)179146 035 $a(OCoLC)71195880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11456237 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10871156 035 $a(PQKB)10354847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071191 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11123230 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071191 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10091676 035 $a(PQKB)11776614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179146 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL179146 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10061120 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL813616 035 $a(OCoLC)826515059 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252800 100 $a20180331d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostmodernist fiction /$fBrian McHale 210 1$aNew York :$cMethuen,$d1987. 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-416-36390-3 311 $a0-415-04513-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 330 $aLike 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 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostmodernism 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostmodernism. 676 $a809 676 $a809.304 700 $aMcHale$b Brian.$0131837 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783842303321 996 $aPostmodernist fiction$9143636 997 $aUNINA