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Brian McHale

Autor(a) de Postmodernist Fiction

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Brian McHale is Professor of English at Ohio State University

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Well, the last thing this book needs is another summation. Let's just wrap things up by saying that the ontological dominant took the literary baton from epistemology, and the rest is history. Forward march.
Here are some thoughts I had while wrestling with this book:
"Of course it happened. Of course it didn't happen."
Where's my dictionary?
This is brilliant / this is bollocks.
What?
"Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again."
Why didn't I take French in high school?
So, the sword of Damocles is replaced by the nuclear bomb over the movie theatre, right?
Where is Hunter Thompson when I need him?
Now that I've read this, can I please, please, please return to reading novels?
This is why academics a.k.a. dramaturgs should never direct Shakespeare plays.
Professor McHale, if he hasn't already done so, might want to partake in a stiff whiskey or two...or twelve.
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard."
… (mais)
 
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mortalfool | 1 outra crítica | Jul 10, 2021 |
I started reading a library copy, and decided I had to get it so i could mark it up. McHale is very clear on his project, and has a well-thought-through idea of what postmodernist literature is as compared to modern literature. He also goes well getting into postmodern cultural thinking. I liked the way he used and talked about authors who used the concept of a heterotopia. McHale is a very agile thinker and brings many considerations to bear in his study.
 
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mkelly | 1 outra crítica | Jan 19, 2017 |

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