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 27
... existence , he need only read the words he has written . " ( A ) ship's log can't very well read itself . So I do exist , yes , because I read it . " 7 Samuel R. Delany's brand of SF is a language - conscious art . In fact , his novel ...
... existence , he need only read the words he has written . " ( A ) ship's log can't very well read itself . So I do exist , yes , because I read it . " 7 Samuel R. Delany's brand of SF is a language - conscious art . In fact , his novel ...
Page 158
... existence . Increasingly within the past decade texts have appeared , often written by persons with established reputations as poets , which are in prose and may or may not be fiction . To say that they are in prose is only to indicate ...
... existence . Increasingly within the past decade texts have appeared , often written by persons with established reputations as poets , which are in prose and may or may not be fiction . To say that they are in prose is only to indicate ...
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... existence as such is an agony , and personal communication is impossible . The protag- onists of Bernhard's novels live in a world that is doomed to stupidity , brutality , disease and decay , and , in the final analysis , death . Not ...
... existence as such is an agony , and personal communication is impossible . The protag- onists of Bernhard's novels live in a world that is doomed to stupidity , brutality , disease and decay , and , in the final analysis , death . Not ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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