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 56
... effect pushes toward that of poetry ; following the course of tensions and conflicts , yet never shaping into a strong , con- trolling pattern . The ultimate effect is that of a fable lacking a moral or meaning known to its author ; he ...
... effect pushes toward that of poetry ; following the course of tensions and conflicts , yet never shaping into a strong , con- trolling pattern . The ultimate effect is that of a fable lacking a moral or meaning known to its author ; he ...
Page 66
... effect . Even close inspection , as of a painting by de Kooning , yields the same anti - hierarchal effect , for here the close examiner sees that there are many layers of paint imposed on each other so thoroughly that no single plane ...
... effect . Even close inspection , as of a painting by de Kooning , yields the same anti - hierarchal effect , for here the close examiner sees that there are many layers of paint imposed on each other so thoroughly that no single plane ...
Page 358
... effect of repeated entrapment and surprising in sin - upon its reader . As such , its critical assumptions are a ... effects " of a work , there is a danger " that the poem itself as an object of specifically critical judgment 358 FISH ...
... effect of repeated entrapment and surprising in sin - upon its reader . As such , its critical assumptions are a ... effects " of a work , there is a danger " that the poem itself as an object of specifically critical judgment 358 FISH ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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