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 271
... offers perhaps a way of resolving tensions inherent in it . As used here , it would define sci - fi as the extension of , and departure from , what sort of literature ? For some , modernism is Joyce , texts where the primary narrative ...
... offers perhaps a way of resolving tensions inherent in it . As used here , it would define sci - fi as the extension of , and departure from , what sort of literature ? For some , modernism is Joyce , texts where the primary narrative ...
Page 283
... offers the following Arnoldian gloss on Bloom's activity : " The function of criticism at the present time , as I conceive it , is to find a middle way between the paths of demystification of meaning , and of recollection or restoration ...
... offers the following Arnoldian gloss on Bloom's activity : " The function of criticism at the present time , as I conceive it , is to find a middle way between the paths of demystification of meaning , and of recollection or restoration ...
Page 359
... offers ( behind its cover illustration of Tinguely's 1960 Homage to New York ) treatments of Francis Bacon , George Herbert ( also the object of Fish's 1978 study The Living Temple : George Herbert and Catechizing ) , John Bunyan ...
... offers ( behind its cover illustration of Tinguely's 1960 Homage to New York ) treatments of Francis Bacon , George Herbert ( also the object of Fish's 1978 study The Living Temple : George Herbert and Catechizing ) , John Bunyan ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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