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 xiv
... continued to write fiction that had a major impact on our contemporary literary sensibility . These omissions were made reluctantly , but to do otherwise would have created the un- solvable dilemma of where and how else to draw the line ...
... continued to write fiction that had a major impact on our contemporary literary sensibility . These omissions were made reluctantly , but to do otherwise would have created the un- solvable dilemma of where and how else to draw the line ...
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... continued world view ( and hence the continued power ) of those who established these ideologies . Thus , the aggressive , radicalized poetics of postmodernism was an extension of a larger sense of dissatisfaction and frustration ...
... continued world view ( and hence the continued power ) of those who established these ideologies . Thus , the aggressive , radicalized poetics of postmodernism was an extension of a larger sense of dissatisfaction and frustration ...
Page 454
... continued in The Star Diaries ( 1957 ) and some later col- lections published in the 1960s and 1970s . In 1955 , another utopian novel of interplanetary travel , Obłok Magellana ( Magellan's Cloud ) , was pub- lished along with the ...
... continued in The Star Diaries ( 1957 ) and some later col- lections published in the 1960s and 1970s . In 1955 , another utopian novel of interplanetary travel , Obłok Magellana ( Magellan's Cloud ) , was pub- lished along with the ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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