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082			_a809.9113 _bMcH/C
100	0		_aMcHale, Brian
245	1	0	_aConstructing postmodernism
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c1992
300			_axii,342p.
500			_aInclude bibliographical references and index.
520			_aPostmodernism 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.
650			_aLiterature
650	0		_aFiction -20th century- history and criticism
650	0		_aPostmodernism
942			_cBK
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