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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... traditional concerns or redefining what could be done with realistic struc- tures . The result is that by the mid - 1980s , postmodern experimentalism is moving in many different directions . A book like Barth's Letters or Pyn- chon's ...
... traditional concerns or redefining what could be done with realistic struc- tures . The result is that by the mid - 1980s , postmodern experimentalism is moving in many different directions . A book like Barth's Letters or Pyn- chon's ...
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... traditional realistic novel " as that which threatens to choke - perhaps even kill — the novel as a genre ; the realistic novel is seen to rely on naive , even dangerous , pre- suppositions . From the point of view of experimental ...
... traditional realistic novel " as that which threatens to choke - perhaps even kill — the novel as a genre ; the realistic novel is seen to rely on naive , even dangerous , pre- suppositions . From the point of view of experimental ...
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... traditional novel with its predetermined plot and fixed characters , Wittig evokes mythical beings in a fictional world whose discontinuity is developed through the rhythmical use of unpunctuated series - adjectives , nouns , phrases ...
... traditional novel with its predetermined plot and fixed characters , Wittig evokes mythical beings in a fictional world whose discontinuity is developed through the rhythmical use of unpunctuated series - adjectives , nouns , phrases ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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