Postmodernist Fiction 1st Edition by Brian McHale (PDF)

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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.

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⭐How refreshing!! Unlike so many literary theorists who rarely if ever cite a work of literature, McHale actually reads books and applies his theories to them. If you ask me, any literary postmodernist who doesn’t talk about an author like Pynchon is missing the point. This is one of the best examples of applied postmodern theory I’ve ever read. And full of remarkable insights (like his discussion of modernism/mystery and postmodernism/sci fi). If you’re interested in what postmodernism is in literature, this should be the first book you read (after one of the fun, easy guides like “Postmodernism for Beginners”). Highly recommended.

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