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 57
... dream , myth , and the unconscious that shapes a fabulist novel such as Barth's * Giles Goat - Boy . Writing a book of objective fact , which is also a highly stylized artifice , and which is finally a tracing by the author of what seem ...
... dream , myth , and the unconscious that shapes a fabulist novel such as Barth's * Giles Goat - Boy . Writing a book of objective fact , which is also a highly stylized artifice , and which is finally a tracing by the author of what seem ...
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... Dream Songs . New York : Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1969 . Burroughs , William . Nova Express . New York : Grove ... Dream of a Common Language , Poems 1974-1977 . 140 POSTMODERN FICTION.
... Dream Songs . New York : Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1969 . Burroughs , William . Nova Express . New York : Grove ... Dream of a Common Language , Poems 1974-1977 . 140 POSTMODERN FICTION.
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... dream that we are dreaming , the moment of awakening is at hand . " Yet she wallows in her creations . In fact , her melodrama of bloodily hatch- eting a white stepmother or murdering her father for his miscegenation might as easily be ...
... dream that we are dreaming , the moment of awakening is at hand . " Yet she wallows in her creations . In fact , her melodrama of bloodily hatch- eting a white stepmother or murdering her father for his miscegenation might as easily be ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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