Career
Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, McHale is a Rhodes Scholar (Rhode Island 1974), D Phil from Merton College, Oxford, and B.A. from Brown University (1974). He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole (2004), as well as articles on free indirect discourse, mise en abyme, narrativity, modernist and postmodernist poetics, and science fiction. He is co-editor with Randall Stevenson of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006).
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