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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... thought that shares features of postmodern thought rather than focusing on criticism that deals with postmodern fiction . Indeed , it seems evident to me that many of the same principles and tendencies that were shaping the direction ...
... thought that shares features of postmodern thought rather than focusing on criticism that deals with postmodern fiction . Indeed , it seems evident to me that many of the same principles and tendencies that were shaping the direction ...
Page 163
... thought of the women who own them . Probably the landgrubbers who don't even live around here . Breasts without definition as bodies of thought . Alphabet blouses . The thought of ceilings and their word equivalents . Nobody home . Some ...
... thought of the women who own them . Probably the landgrubbers who don't even live around here . Breasts without definition as bodies of thought . Alphabet blouses . The thought of ceilings and their word equivalents . Nobody home . Some ...
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... thought , of what lies hidden in a people's mind ; it accumulates an ineluctable memory which does not even know itself as memory . Expressing their thoughts in words of which they are not the masters , enclosing them in verbal forms ...
... thought , of what lies hidden in a people's mind ; it accumulates an ineluctable memory which does not even know itself as memory . Expressing their thoughts in words of which they are not the masters , enclosing them in verbal forms ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
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