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 25
... verbal construct , because it would be impossible for the reader even to form a visual image of a situation in which there is no space and time . But if Calvino's " translation " of the scientific hypothesis is self - con- sciously ...
... verbal construct , because it would be impossible for the reader even to form a visual image of a situation in which there is no space and time . But if Calvino's " translation " of the scientific hypothesis is self - con- sciously ...
Page 130
... verbal expressions . Although both poetry and fiction are literary and verbal , the act of writing a poem is so vastly different from the act of writing a novel or even a short story , that very few writers are able to develop the ...
... verbal expressions . Although both poetry and fiction are literary and verbal , the act of writing a poem is so vastly different from the act of writing a novel or even a short story , that very few writers are able to develop the ...
Page 135
... verbal world that had an intrinsic vitality , not necessarily related to what that world revealed about reality ... verbal artifacts . In Gass ' view , fiction has only a broadly metaphorical connection with actual life , and fiction ...
... verbal world that had an intrinsic vitality , not necessarily related to what that world revealed about reality ... verbal artifacts . In Gass ' view , fiction has only a broadly metaphorical connection with actual life , and fiction ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Postmodern Journalism | 51 |
Copyright | |
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