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 7
... fact , and we are supposed to take them as " real " characters . The metaphoric language ( " the dead ... settled down in neighborhoods " ) is to be taken literally . The oxymoron " magic realism " defines this aesthetic limbo for ...
... fact , and we are supposed to take them as " real " characters . The metaphoric language ( " the dead ... settled down in neighborhoods " ) is to be taken literally . The oxymoron " magic realism " defines this aesthetic limbo for ...
Page 52
... fact through a frank , obtrusive , liberated assertion of their private conscious- ness . These New Journalists , as they came to be called , recognized that the mass media were confronting personal consciousness with the most remote ...
... fact through a frank , obtrusive , liberated assertion of their private conscious- ness . These New Journalists , as they came to be called , recognized that the mass media were confronting personal consciousness with the most remote ...
Page 70
... fact . Cancer I'll get , and also a jail sentence . In fact , I never should have taken my first puff , Willy , because it will lead to bad things . Little did they know . Do you smoke , Warren ? " ( p . 8 ) Meanwhile , the suicide note ...
... fact . Cancer I'll get , and also a jail sentence . In fact , I never should have taken my first puff , Willy , because it will lead to bad things . Little did they know . Do you smoke , Warren ? " ( p . 8 ) Meanwhile , the suicide note ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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