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 220
... play of " inversions , evolutions , and harlequin changes " that " eddy about a truth " ; but , DeQuincey con- cludes , " the age of rhetoric has passed among forgotten things . 9912 Postmodern criticism is the reinvention of a ...
... play of " inversions , evolutions , and harlequin changes " that " eddy about a truth " ; but , DeQuincey con- cludes , " the age of rhetoric has passed among forgotten things . 9912 Postmodern criticism is the reinvention of a ...
Page 221
... play equiv- alent to total anarchy , can never occur . All play begins with " the means at hand " and entails to some extent " the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage " ( pp . 282-85 ) . By concluding that all ...
... play equiv- alent to total anarchy , can never occur . All play begins with " the means at hand " and entails to some extent " the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage " ( pp . 282-85 ) . By concluding that all ...
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... play onto stage where it is least expected - Plato's " phar- makon , " Rousseau's " supplement , " Nietzsche's " hymen " -and keeping the play playing without reducing it to a theme , that is , to metaphysics pure and simple . Having ...
... play onto stage where it is least expected - Plato's " phar- makon , " Rousseau's " supplement , " Nietzsche's " hymen " -and keeping the play playing without reducing it to a theme , that is , to metaphysics pure and simple . Having ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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