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Postmodernism is not a found object but a manufactued artifact.Beginning from this constructivist premise Brian McHale develops a series ofreadings of problematically postmodernist novelsJoyces Ulysses PynchonsGravitys Rainbow and Vineland Ecos The Name of the Rose andFoucaults Pendulum the novels of James McElroy and Christine BrookeRoseavantgarde works such as Kathy Akers Empire of the Senseless and works ofcyberpunk sciencefiction by William Gibson Bruce Sterling Lewis Shiner RudyRucker and others.Although mainly focused on high or elite cultural products ConstructingPostmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popularculture as television and the cinema paranoia and nuclear apocalypseangelology and the cybernetic interface and death now as always the trueFinal Frontier.McHales previous book Postmodernist Fiction Routledge 1987 seemed topropose a single allinclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This bookby contrast proposes multiple overlapping and intersecting inventoriesnot aconstruction of postmodernism but a plurality of constructions.Constructing Postmodernism will be essential reading for all students ofcontemporary literature and culture. «
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