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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... Poem : An International Anthology ( 1980 ) , although no evidence exists to support a thesis that these writings were intended as poems . Although Benedikt's book focuses heavily on what might be considered the conventional prose poem ...
... Poem : An International Anthology ( 1980 ) , although no evidence exists to support a thesis that these writings were intended as poems . Although Benedikt's book focuses heavily on what might be considered the conventional prose poem ...
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... poem , even when it frames two or three lucky finds .... The poem is a constructed object and not a jewelry store window . Rimbaud is a jewelry store window , he's not the jewel : the prose poem is a jewel . " Yet he offers a work entitled ...
... poem , even when it frames two or three lucky finds .... The poem is a constructed object and not a jewelry store window . Rimbaud is a jewelry store window , he's not the jewel : the prose poem is a jewel . " Yet he offers a work entitled ...
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... poetic struggle for imaginative space and priority — that is , it charts the structure of the ro- mantic poem . It does so in terms simultaneously of imagery , rhetorical tropes , Freudian defense mechanisms ( a poem is , then , like a ...
... poetic struggle for imaginative space and priority — that is , it charts the structure of the ro- mantic poem . It does so in terms simultaneously of imagery , rhetorical tropes , Freudian defense mechanisms ( a poem is , then , like a ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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