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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... attempt to get inside their subjects , either through lengthy first - hand observation and even participation or ... attempted to overcome its inadequacies in the face of the fragmenting , changing world of the postmodern . The ...
... attempt to get inside their subjects , either through lengthy first - hand observation and even participation or ... attempted to overcome its inadequacies in the face of the fragmenting , changing world of the postmodern . The ...
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... attempt to exhaust all of its possibilities . Coover might call this execution . The other writers who have commented on their novels , including Gaddis , share this sense of loyalty to the necessity of the text , to following its ...
... attempt to exhaust all of its possibilities . Coover might call this execution . The other writers who have commented on their novels , including Gaddis , share this sense of loyalty to the necessity of the text , to following its ...
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... attempt to answer the question : What makes a story ? He was born in 1936 in New York City , where he spent most of ... attempts to interest the police in her case by forging a kidnapper's ransom note , and tries to explain to others and ...
... attempt to answer the question : What makes a story ? He was born in 1936 in New York City , where he spent most of ... attempts to interest the police in her case by forging a kidnapper's ransom note , and tries to explain to others and ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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