Brian McHale’s Postmodernist Fiction is a seminal critical work that rigorously explores the characteristics defining postmodern literature, emphasizing its departure from modernist narratives through a focus on epistemological uncertainty and metafictional techniques. McHale articulates how postmodernist fiction destabilizes traditional conceptions of reality and authorship, foregrounding the constructed nature of textual worlds and inviting readers into a participatory experience of meaning-making. His analysis illuminates the complex interplay between language, narrative, and reality, positioning postmodernist fiction as a dynamic, self-reflexive mode that challenges established literary conventions and engages deeply with philosophical inquiries about truth and representation.
Brian McHale’s Postmodernist Fiction is a seminal critical work that rigorously explores the characteristics defining postmodern literature, emphasizing its departure from modernist narratives through a focus on epistemological uncertainty and metafictional techniques. McHale articulates how postmodernist fiction destabilizes traditional conceptions of reality and authorship, foregrounding the constructed nature of textual worlds and inviting readers into a participatory experience of meaning-making. His analysis illuminates the complex interplay between language, narrative, and reality, positioning postmodernist fiction as a dynamic, self-reflexive mode that challenges established literary conventions and engages deeply with philosophical inquiries about truth and representation.
Routledge 1987, this copy is a 1996 reprint. Very good condition with minimal shelf wear
