Postmodernist fiction / / Brian McHale

• Autore: McHale Brian
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Methuen, 1987
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 809; 809.304
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Postmodernism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Postmodernist fiction
• ISBN: 1-134-94916-2; 1-134-94917-0; 1-280-02217-5; 0-203-39332-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959275903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II