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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Page 126
... calls the " unsolvable knot of science and mysticism " and providing a model of Western thought as a boomerang of abstraction , a model simple in its outline but intricate with the analogues and corollaries DeLillo builds in . Difficult ...
... calls the " unsolvable knot of science and mysticism " and providing a model of Western thought as a boomerang of abstraction , a model simple in its outline but intricate with the analogues and corollaries DeLillo builds in . Difficult ...
Page 271
... calls them " drawing room dramas " -these are less speculative and more pronounced in their resolutions , which are often epiphanies . Primarily as a realist — though not only as a post - 1960s ' chronicler ( while Beattie admits to an ...
... calls them " drawing room dramas " -these are less speculative and more pronounced in their resolutions , which are often epiphanies . Primarily as a realist — though not only as a post - 1960s ' chronicler ( while Beattie admits to an ...
Page 522
... calls ex- emplary plot has become his main object of study . In The Conquest of America ( 1982 ) , for example , he retells the story of the conquest of America by means of quotations and reports , calling into question principles of ...
... calls ex- emplary plot has become his main object of study . In The Conquest of America ( 1982 ) , for example , he retells the story of the conquest of America by means of quotations and reports , calling into question principles of ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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