TY  - BOOK
AU  - McHale, Brian
TI  - Constructing postmodernism 
SN  - 0415060140
U1  - 809.9113 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literature
KW  - Fiction -20th century- history and criticism
KW  - Postmodernism
N1  - Include bibliographical references and index
N2  - Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact." Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novelsJoyce's Ulysses; Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland; Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum; the novels of James McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Aker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker, and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products, Constructing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always, the true Final Frontier.
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