Postmodern play with worlds : the case of at swim-two-birds

• Main Author: Wang, Michelle W.
• Other Authors: Alice Bell
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Nebraska Press 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature; Postmodernist Fiction; Possible Worlds Model
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148313
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Postmodern fiction typically instantiates an aesthetics of play in which ontological questions about the sort of worlds characters inhabit and the ways in which readers orient to these worlds, constitute a central readerly concern (McHale; Ryan; Doležel). Using Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (193...