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Published by Routledge, 1987, softcover, index, 284 pages, condition: very good.

Like it or not, the term postmodernism seems to have lodged itself in our critical and theoretical discourses. We have a postmodern architecture, a postmodern dance, perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition. But do we have a postmodern fiction?

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, Doležel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fictions ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Far from being, as unsympathetic critics have sometimes complained, about nothing but itself or even about nothing at all postmodernist fiction in McHales construction of it proves to be about (among other things) those handy literary perennials, Love and Death.

This is a must have book for anyone interested in postmodern theory. McHale does an excellent job of breaking down the various terms and arguments that [could] constitute the definition of postmodernism [if indeed postmodernism exists].

The language in the book is very accessible and McHale uses a large number of excellent examples to illustrate his points.

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