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 199
... literary language in which Puerto Ricans sparkle . The point is not so much that the canonical Boom reproduces the logic of late capitalism but rather that transculturation is experienced and ex- pressed differentially in the texture of ...
... literary language in which Puerto Ricans sparkle . The point is not so much that the canonical Boom reproduces the logic of late capitalism but rather that transculturation is experienced and ex- pressed differentially in the texture of ...
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... literary works are immaculate systems whose plenitude rules out possibilities of reference to " a world outside , " or con- tends authoritatively that literary discourse is a superstructure symptomatic of a mode of cultural production ...
... literary works are immaculate systems whose plenitude rules out possibilities of reference to " a world outside , " or con- tends authoritatively that literary discourse is a superstructure symptomatic of a mode of cultural production ...
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... literary text is necessarily incomplete and intentionally repressive . And now , to sum up the revolutionary impact of Foucault's anti - hu- manistic thought on the institution of literary criticism : ( 1 ) Meaning and identity do not ...
... literary text is necessarily incomplete and intentionally repressive . And now , to sum up the revolutionary impact of Foucault's anti - hu- manistic thought on the institution of literary criticism : ( 1 ) Meaning and identity do not ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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