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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... Marxist , Jameson makes the following programmatic affirmation : Only Marxism can give us an adequate account of the essential mystery of the cultural past , which , like Tiresias drinking blood , is momentarily returned to life and ...
... Marxist , Jameson makes the following programmatic affirmation : Only Marxism can give us an adequate account of the essential mystery of the cultural past , which , like Tiresias drinking blood , is momentarily returned to life and ...
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... Marxism productively while at the same time submit Marxism itself to self - critique . The work of William Spanos derives strongly from Heidegger's de - struc- tion of metaphysics and Western onto - theology . Spanos takes special care ...
... Marxism productively while at the same time submit Marxism itself to self - critique . The work of William Spanos derives strongly from Heidegger's de - struc- tion of metaphysics and Western onto - theology . Spanos takes special care ...
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... Marxism and Form : Twentieth - Cen- tury Dialectical Theories of Literature ( 1971 ) , The Prison House of Lan- guage : A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism ( 1972 ) , and The Political Unconscious : Narrative as a ...
... Marxism and Form : Twentieth - Cen- tury Dialectical Theories of Literature ( 1971 ) , The Prison House of Lan- guage : A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism ( 1972 ) , and The Political Unconscious : Narrative as a ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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