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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... imagination as it is about the war - the imagination as a power and reality in its own right . It is precisely for this reason that O'Brien claims that this novel is the most realistic novel he has written.15 What O'Brien's work also ...
... imagination as it is about the war - the imagination as a power and reality in its own right . It is precisely for this reason that O'Brien claims that this novel is the most realistic novel he has written.15 What O'Brien's work also ...
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... imagination . This theme is repeated in " Romanticism and Anti - Self - Consciousness " in Beyond For- malism ( 1970 ) , in which the " fixated self - consciousness " of a J. S. Mill is seen as a fall from nature , to be cured by ...
... imagination . This theme is repeated in " Romanticism and Anti - Self - Consciousness " in Beyond For- malism ( 1970 ) , in which the " fixated self - consciousness " of a J. S. Mill is seen as a fall from nature , to be cured by ...
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... imagination through language to pure mind . Hassan's project displays a marked continuity : the elegant , if urgent , prose became epigram and aphorism , the symmetrical structures became elaborate architectonics ; the characters and ...
... imagination through language to pure mind . Hassan's project displays a marked continuity : the elegant , if urgent , prose became epigram and aphorism , the symmetrical structures became elaborate architectonics ; the characters and ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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