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 261
... appeared in 1964. It was followed by Unspeakable Practices , Unnatural Acts ( 1968 ) , City Life ( 1970 ) , his best works perhaps , and , later , by Sadness ( 1972 ) , Amateurs ( 1976 ) , Great Days ( 1979 ) , and Sixty Stories ( 1981 ) ...
... appeared in 1964. It was followed by Unspeakable Practices , Unnatural Acts ( 1968 ) , City Life ( 1970 ) , his best works perhaps , and , later , by Sadness ( 1972 ) , Amateurs ( 1976 ) , Great Days ( 1979 ) , and Sixty Stories ( 1981 ) ...
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... appeared in a wide variety of scholarly , political , and theoretical journals — notably PMLA , which awarded the prize for its best essay of the year to " Metacommentary " in 1971 , Yale French Studies , where the influential ...
... appeared in a wide variety of scholarly , political , and theoretical journals — notably PMLA , which awarded the prize for its best essay of the year to " Metacommentary " in 1971 , Yale French Studies , where the influential ...
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... appeared in many magazines including Credences , Ironwood , Partisan Review , and Po- etics Journal . She lives and sometimes teaches in San Diego , California . PETER J. BAILEY teaches contemporary fiction and fiction writing at St ...
... appeared in many magazines including Credences , Ironwood , Partisan Review , and Po- etics Journal . She lives and sometimes teaches in San Diego , California . PETER J. BAILEY teaches contemporary fiction and fiction writing at St ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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