Postmodernist Fiction Vintage Bookx Passing out high callings

Passing out high callings

" Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family

the main character of This Earth of Mankind

I don’t know how best to describe this book – perhaps the word *fable* might well do the trick

Postmodernist Fiction Vintage Bookx Passing out high callingsLike 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 postmodern fiction? 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