{"title":"Brian McHale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian McHale\u003c\/strong\u003e specialises in critical theory with a focus on postmodernism and contemporary literary studies. His works offer insightful analysis of narrative forms and cultural shifts, making complex ideas accessible to students and scholars alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful explorations of how modern literature and theory intersect, particularly in challenging traditional boundaries. His texts serve as valuable guides for those interested in understanding the evolving landscape of literary and cultural critique.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"constructing-postmodernism-by-brian-mchale-9780415060134","title":"Constructing Postmodernism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostmodernism\u003c\/em\u003e is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact. Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels - Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e, Pynchon's \u003cem\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e, Eco's \u003cem\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFoucault's Pendulum\u003c\/em\u003e, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's \u003cem\u003eEmpire of the Senseless\u003c\/em\u003e, and the works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough mainly focused on 'high' or 'elite' cultural products - 'art' novels - \u003cem\u003eConstructing Postmodernism\u003c\/em\u003e 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 (in spite of what Captain Kirk says) the true Final Frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMcHale's previous book, \u003cem\u003ePostmodernist Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, had seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and interesting inventories - not a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605262352620,"sku":"9780415060134","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780415060134-constructing-postmodernism.jpg?v=1778129593"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/brian-mchale.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}