Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical GuideLarry McCaffery The scope of the work is broad, with European and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for collections that emphasize fiction of the past two decades. Library Journal |
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... body of writing for which realism is a very real specter . Although there is no clear consensus among critics about the precise bound- aries of magic realism , it refers broadly to that fiction propelled by the tension between realistic ...
... body of writing for which realism is a very real specter . Although there is no clear consensus among critics about the precise bound- aries of magic realism , it refers broadly to that fiction propelled by the tension between realistic ...
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... bodies ; they're ... instruments . And I want ... " Claude guessed his unseen ges- ture , the gesture of a hand ... body be for him anything but a proof of the unbridgeable gulf between them . Without love there can be no passion ...
... bodies ; they're ... instruments . And I want ... " Claude guessed his unseen ges- ture , the gesture of a hand ... body be for him anything but a proof of the unbridgeable gulf between them . Without love there can be no passion ...
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... body of Christ occasioned research on the history of early Christianity . The result was Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) . Following modest sales and less than extravagant royalties , Robbins , by now married and the father of a ...
... body of Christ occasioned research on the history of early Christianity . The result was Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) . Following modest sales and less than extravagant royalties , Robbins , by now married and the father of a ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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