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 postmodernist fiction? In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction w...(展开全部)

Ample collection of short stories, with essays, notes and questions for each.

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his ...(展开全部)

Long before the current preoccupation with “fake news,” American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today, a firm boundary between fact and fakery is a hallmark of journalistic practice, yet for many readers and publishers across more than three centuries, this distinction has seemed slippery or even irrelevant. From fibs in America’s...(展开全部)

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov. Originally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane’s evolution as a writer. Spare, transpare...(展开全部)

This volume brings together Gerald Murnane's shorter works of fiction, most of which have been out of print for the past twenty five years. They include such masterpieces as 'When the Mice Failed to Arrive', 'Stream System', 'First Love', 'Emerald Blue', and 'The Interior of Gaaldine', a story which holds the key to the long break in Murnane's career, and points the way towards...(展开全部)

Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy. The book’s topic is the question of how communities or noncommunities are represented in fictional works. Such fictional communities ...(展开全部)

此书由13个可独立成篇、亦相互关联的短小说构成，大部分以缅因州小镇中学数学女教师奥丽芙·基特里奇为主人公——有几篇她虽非中心人物，却也从旁出场。斯特鲁特不留情面，但暗怀同情地描写了她的半生。 书中的基特里奇太太现约60岁，一副暴脾气，谁也别想挡她的道。她动不动就发作，对外人如此，对家人同样——几乎将丈夫和儿子逼疯。她丈夫亨利是镇上的药剂师，性格温良。 在斯特鲁特女士笔下，基太太一辈子伤人，也一辈子受伤，有时被人伤，有时自伤。到头来她暗吞苦果，心生咒骂：“我真是个他妈的破烂老婆！他妈的。我们总是孤独的。孤独地出生，孤独地死去。” 路易莎·托马斯曾在《纽约时报》撰文，赞扬斯特鲁特技巧非凡，其人物虽性格复杂，有时不免令人厌恨，却往往让读者在阅读过程中与女主人公合二为一。托马斯女士说，读完此书，她体会到一个简单的道理：“我们需要尽力理解他人，即便不能忍受他们...(展开全部)