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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 79
Page 56
... characters and incidents contributing to his picture of society . His resulting portrait is of Americans explaining ... characters in the event . Stripped as they are by Mailer of surface details , these stories read like allegories ...
... characters and incidents contributing to his picture of society . His resulting portrait is of Americans explaining ... characters in the event . Stripped as they are by Mailer of surface details , these stories read like allegories ...
Page 101
... characters . Doppelgängers of parodic or symmetric intent such as those in Nabokov are another version of dehumanization of character . The deliberate flat- tening out of character reveals the personality to be a cardboard or cartoon ...
... characters . Doppelgängers of parodic or symmetric intent such as those in Nabokov are another version of dehumanization of character . The deliberate flat- tening out of character reveals the personality to be a cardboard or cartoon ...
Page 146
... characters and demands that they all live under his roof so that he may keep watch over them , and insure that they relate to each other only in the ways he desires for the complications of the plot he has in mind . These characters ...
... characters and demands that they all live under his roof so that he may keep watch over them , and insure that they relate to each other only in the ways he desires for the complications of the plot he has in mind . These characters ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abish aesthetic Alfred artistic Barthelme Barthes become Berkeley Bibliography Primary Sources Calif characters Chicago collection conventional Coover create critical Critique culture deconstruction Delany Derrida discourse Donald Barthelme essays experience experimental fantasy Farrar feminist Gabriel García Márquez García Márquez Gass genre Going After Cacciato Gregory Rabassa Grove Press Harper & Row human imagination Interview John John Barth Knopf Kurt Vonnegut language Latin American linguistic literary literature lives magic realism McCaffery meaning metafictional metaphor Michael modern myth narrative narrator novel novelist Paris plot poem poetic poetry poets political postmodern fiction prose protagonist published Pynchon Random House Ratner's Star reader reading realism reality Review rhetoric Richard Robert Robert Coover Ron Silliman science fiction Secondary Sources Selected Bibliography Primary sense short stories social Straus & Giroux structure style theme theory Thomas Thomas Pynchon traditional Trans University Press Vietnam voice Vonnegut Walter Abish William words writing York