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 104
... frame , it reaches the same level each time . Or , if there are several exclusive but simultaneous frames ( scenes of settings for action ) as in Welch D. Everman's " Marathon " ( CR 30 : 2 ) , each remains self - contained . But this ...
... frame , it reaches the same level each time . Or , if there are several exclusive but simultaneous frames ( scenes of settings for action ) as in Welch D. Everman's " Marathon " ( CR 30 : 2 ) , each remains self - contained . But this ...
Page 105
... frame , resetting the criminal's alarm clock , unloading his gun . The levels may be incon- sistent from the very first , so that there is neither paradox nor stability ; see Claude Simon's Triptych ( 1973 ) and Alain Robbe - Grillet's ...
... frame , resetting the criminal's alarm clock , unloading his gun . The levels may be incon- sistent from the very first , so that there is neither paradox nor stability ; see Claude Simon's Triptych ( 1973 ) and Alain Robbe - Grillet's ...
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... frame the fleshing out of rounded characters that supporters of more conventional fiction expect . Metaphors of renovating crumbling houses and rebuilding shattered lives mix with closely observed domestic details , and the reader is ...
... frame the fleshing out of rounded characters that supporters of more conventional fiction expect . Metaphors of renovating crumbling houses and rebuilding shattered lives mix with closely observed domestic details , and the reader is ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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