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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... experimental realism . ( Note that Professor Jerome Klinkowitz * presents a different notion of this term in his article in this volume . ) By experimental realism I mean fiction that is fundamentally realistic in its impulses but that ...
... experimental realism . ( Note that Professor Jerome Klinkowitz * presents a different notion of this term in his article in this volume . ) By experimental realism I mean fiction that is fundamentally realistic in its impulses but that ...
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... experimental writing , and its ghostly persistence . Authors and critics alike , championing the cause of postmodern experi- mentation , have repeatedly raised the specter of " the traditional realistic novel " as that which threatens ...
... experimental writing , and its ghostly persistence . Authors and critics alike , championing the cause of postmodern experi- mentation , have repeatedly raised the specter of " the traditional realistic novel " as that which threatens ...
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... experimental daguerreotype where a bystander , Edgar Allan Poe , is in- corporated for scale . Why photography ? Because " for the first time in the history of art the accidental becomes the controlling iconography of a representation ...
... experimental daguerreotype where a bystander , Edgar Allan Poe , is in- corporated for scale . Why photography ? Because " for the first time in the history of art the accidental becomes the controlling iconography of a representation ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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