Postmodernist Fiction

McHale, Brian

ISBN 10: 0415045134 / ISBN 13: 9780415045131

Editore: Routledge, 1987

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0415045134I4N00

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Brian McHale is Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University, USA.

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Titolo: Postmodernist Fiction
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 1987
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket