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 54
... consciousness . As mock - epic hero and mock - epic stylist , Mailer dominates the event , pre- senting it through separate and highly self - conscious personae - Mailer as witnessing participant , Mailer as reflecting novelist , Mailer ...
... consciousness . As mock - epic hero and mock - epic stylist , Mailer dominates the event , pre- senting it through separate and highly self - conscious personae - Mailer as witnessing participant , Mailer as reflecting novelist , Mailer ...
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... consciousness speaking from and about an actual place and time . Between these extremes , Wolfe goes behind the fictions of the media to find the facts of the psychedelic movement and the early space program , then asserts the ...
... consciousness speaking from and about an actual place and time . Between these extremes , Wolfe goes behind the fictions of the media to find the facts of the psychedelic movement and the early space program , then asserts the ...
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... consciousness . " In the intervening years , Hassan had written two comparative studies that traced literary origins of the apocalyptic quest for new consciousness increasingly central to Hassan's reading of modern literature . In The ...
... consciousness . " In the intervening years , Hassan had written two comparative studies that traced literary origins of the apocalyptic quest for new consciousness increasingly central to Hassan's reading of modern literature . In The ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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