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Postmodernist Fiction

By Brian Mchale

Postmodernist Fiction General education

Postmodernist Fiction

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Description
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 those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
1987-07-02
Publication Date:
1987-07-02
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415045134
ISBN13:
9780415045131
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
430 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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