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 138
... culture . No cultural changes in America in the 1960s and 1970s have had such a far - reaching effect as the changes that occurred in the lives of millions of American women . And few changes were more closely chronicled , both in ...
... culture . No cultural changes in America in the 1960s and 1970s have had such a far - reaching effect as the changes that occurred in the lives of millions of American women . And few changes were more closely chronicled , both in ...
Page 223
... culture of reference . " For this reason the innovator sustains a dialogue as well as a tension with that culture , never cut loose altogether from communal exchange , never isolated in an entirely private subjective world . But also ...
... culture of reference . " For this reason the innovator sustains a dialogue as well as a tension with that culture , never cut loose altogether from communal exchange , never isolated in an entirely private subjective world . But also ...
Page 340
... culture subgenre piece , the conventions of the Western are used to expose at once the barrenness of the culture , of those conventions and of the American Dream mythos at the heart of what our culture thinks are its own deep structures ...
... culture subgenre piece , the conventions of the Western are used to expose at once the barrenness of the culture , of those conventions and of the American Dream mythos at the heart of what our culture thinks are its own deep structures ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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