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 203
... concerns of existentialism , the critical realists trace the movements of modern Latin Americans in an alienating urban setting . This current runs the gamut from the highly im- aginary representations of Juan Carlos Onetti ( Uruguay ) ...
... concerns of existentialism , the critical realists trace the movements of modern Latin Americans in an alienating urban setting . This current runs the gamut from the highly im- aginary representations of Juan Carlos Onetti ( Uruguay ) ...
Page 258
... concern with ideas has led one critic to describe him as a “ perpetual - notion machine . " Barth's eight long ... concerns . This hero is a shapeshifter without a stable identity . Reality is similarly elusive . Andrews ' attempt ...
... concern with ideas has led one critic to describe him as a “ perpetual - notion machine . " Barth's eight long ... concerns . This hero is a shapeshifter without a stable identity . Reality is similarly elusive . Andrews ' attempt ...
Page 356
... concerns . His thesis that Beckett's work progressively disintegrates realist conventions of language , form , character , and social reality - could be seen as the seed for the later flowering of Surfiction : Fiction Now and Tomorrow ...
... concerns . His thesis that Beckett's work progressively disintegrates realist conventions of language , form , character , and social reality - could be seen as the seed for the later flowering of Surfiction : Fiction Now and Tomorrow ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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