Bøker av Brian McHale

Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spenser's Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines.

Provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertake to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompassed forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New novel, concrete prose and science fiction.