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 151
... begins the affair with a purely visual relationship between the rich man and the figure in a boutique window aptly designates desire to a primarily visual category , related to a capitalistic necessity : for where would the free market ...
... begins the affair with a purely visual relationship between the rich man and the figure in a boutique window aptly designates desire to a primarily visual category , related to a capitalistic necessity : for where would the free market ...
Page 223
... begins with " borrowing " and work- ing with " the means at hand , " those very concepts , that very language , one aims to obliterate . Derrida maintains that " no one can escape this necessity , " and he shares Feyerabend's belief ...
... begins with " borrowing " and work- ing with " the means at hand , " those very concepts , that very language , one aims to obliterate . Derrida maintains that " no one can escape this necessity , " and he shares Feyerabend's belief ...
Page 250
... begin to copy my favorite pornography books and become the main person in each of them . " Acker's Great Expectations begins , " My father's name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names ...
... begin to copy my favorite pornography books and become the main person in each of them . " Acker's Great Expectations begins , " My father's name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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