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 56
... characters and incidents contributing to his picture of society . His resulting portrait is of Americans explaining ... characters in the event . Stripped as they are by Mailer of surface details , these stories read like allegories ...
... characters and incidents contributing to his picture of society . His resulting portrait is of Americans explaining ... characters in the event . Stripped as they are by Mailer of surface details , these stories read like allegories ...
Page 101
... characters . Doppelgängers of parodic or symmetric intent such as those in Nabokov are another version of dehumanization of character . The deliberate flat- tening out of character reveals the personality to be a cardboard or cartoon ...
... characters . Doppelgängers of parodic or symmetric intent such as those in Nabokov are another version of dehumanization of character . The deliberate flat- tening out of character reveals the personality to be a cardboard or cartoon ...
Page 325
... Characters lack history and background , are defined by gesture and particularly speech . Character does not determine action ; action determines character . The mere juxtaposition of two persons in a room precipitates events that one ...
... Characters lack history and background , are defined by gesture and particularly speech . Character does not determine action ; action determines character . The mere juxtaposition of two persons in a room precipitates events that one ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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