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 95
... conventional mystery The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin , the protagonist , Fen , having some extra time on his hands , reflects on a few titles for his author : " Murder Stalks the University ... The Blood on the Mortarboard . Fen ...
... conventional mystery The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin , the protagonist , Fen , having some extra time on his hands , reflects on a few titles for his author : " Murder Stalks the University ... The Blood on the Mortarboard . Fen ...
Page 106
... conventional realism . Sometimes the author seems to regard it as more prudent to describe a good idea than to try carrying it out in full . For example , Borges states : " The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing ...
... conventional realism . Sometimes the author seems to regard it as more prudent to describe a good idea than to try carrying it out in full . For example , Borges states : " The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing ...
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... conventional works of the same period - Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall , John Gard- ner's * Sunlight Dialogues , Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift , for example . The mass of excess is a deformation of conventional proportions ...
... conventional works of the same period - Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall , John Gard- ner's * Sunlight Dialogues , Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift , for example . The mass of excess is a deformation of conventional proportions ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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