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 218
... critic , and each is potentially rich in symbolic action . Just as the definition of a literary text has become a multiple choice , so has the nature of criticism . " The main ideal of criticism , " to quote Kenneth Burke's longstanding ...
... critic , and each is potentially rich in symbolic action . Just as the definition of a literary text has become a multiple choice , so has the nature of criticism . " The main ideal of criticism , " to quote Kenneth Burke's longstanding ...
Page 230
... criticism ; literature is the donor - progenitor and criticism the beneficiary - offspring . Within such a framework , there develops a relationship of complicity determined by the sacred primacy of literature . The critic genuflects to ...
... criticism ; literature is the donor - progenitor and criticism the beneficiary - offspring . Within such a framework , there develops a relationship of complicity determined by the sacred primacy of literature . The critic genuflects to ...
Page 396
... critics ; and then he proceeds to deconstruct both complexes , with the result that criticism is freed to explore all possibilities of style and is made equal to the text criticized . This theme is broadened in Criticism in the ...
... critics ; and then he proceeds to deconstruct both complexes , with the result that criticism is freed to explore all possibilities of style and is made equal to the text criticized . This theme is broadened in Criticism in the ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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