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  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edited by Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Postmodernist Fiction

    by Brian McHale ...
    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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism

    by Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Pynchon's Against the Day

    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

    by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Amy J. Elias, Kathryn Hume, Martin Kevorkian, Elisabeth McKetta, J Paul Narkunas, Krzysztof Piekarski, Terry Reilly, Justin St. Clair, Christopher K. Coffman, Brian McHale ...
    Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades—from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I—and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book’s eleven essays by ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Constructing Postmodernism

    by Brian McHale ...
    Brian McHale 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. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

    Edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Crying of Lot 49

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years**“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—**The New York Times**“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—**Chicago Tribune“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner</st... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bleeding Edge

    A Novel

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review**It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Gravity's Rainbow

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    **Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic**“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Serpent of Venice

    A Novel

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising an evening of sprits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Bishop's Man

    A Novel

    by Linden MacIntyre ...
    Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the "Exorcist"—an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all of the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he's about to be sorely tested himself.While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending ... Read more

    $13.99 USD