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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... Rhetoric is an art because , first of all , the rhetorical invention of per- spectives can be pursued methodically ; for Aristotle , the inventory of var- iables constitutes a systematic , thus artistic , investigation . Add to this ...
... Rhetoric is an art because , first of all , the rhetorical invention of per- spectives can be pursued methodically ; for Aristotle , the inventory of var- iables constitutes a systematic , thus artistic , investigation . Add to this ...
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... rhetoric ; questions about the invention and arrangement of discourse became the province of logic . One learned rhetoric and crit- icism by recognizing and manipulating the ornaments of language.10 But with the Cartesian reduction of ...
... rhetoric ; questions about the invention and arrangement of discourse became the province of logic . One learned rhetoric and crit- icism by recognizing and manipulating the ornaments of language.10 But with the Cartesian reduction of ...
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... Rhetoric of Motives . New York , 1950 ; rpt . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1969 . Dramatism and Development . Barre , Mass .: Clark University Press with Barre Publishers , 1972 . The Philosophy of Literary Form . 3d ed ...
... Rhetoric of Motives . New York , 1950 ; rpt . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1969 . Dramatism and Development . Barre , Mass .: Clark University Press with Barre Publishers , 1972 . The Philosophy of Literary Form . 3d ed ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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