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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Wang, Michelle W.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Alice Bell
• التنسيق: فصل الكتاب
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: University of Nebraska Press 2021
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Literature; Postmodernist Fiction; Possible Worlds Model
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148313

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...