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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... novel and his novel - within- the - novel , the historical text that underlies our world is only words . Facts seem to escape the history that tries to contain them . Norman Spinrad's novel The Iron Dream ( 1972 ) raises the same points ...
... novel and his novel - within- the - novel , the historical text that underlies our world is only words . Facts seem to escape the history that tries to contain them . Norman Spinrad's novel The Iron Dream ( 1972 ) raises the same points ...
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... novel , Federman actually thought of himself as a poet , eventually publishing a collection of poems , Among the ... novel , Double or Nothing ( 1971 ) , winner of the Frances Steloff Fiction Prize and the Panache Experimental Fiction ...
... novel , Federman actually thought of himself as a poet , eventually publishing a collection of poems , Among the ... novel , Double or Nothing ( 1971 ) , winner of the Frances Steloff Fiction Prize and the Panache Experimental Fiction ...
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... novel becomes both an hilarious allegory of the black condition and a parody of previous black novelists . The next novel , Yellow Back Radio Broke - Down ( 1969 ) , is what Reed called a hoodoo Western , and it takes its form from the ...
... novel becomes both an hilarious allegory of the black condition and a parody of previous black novelists . The next novel , Yellow Back Radio Broke - Down ( 1969 ) , is what Reed called a hoodoo Western , and it takes its form from the ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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