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 85
... experience in Vietnam is absolute but unmeasurable . But the Vietnam experience was bewildering even to the military . To Army veterans , the war made little sense . Confused sergeants , whose 20 years of service span the end of World ...
... experience in Vietnam is absolute but unmeasurable . But the Vietnam experience was bewildering even to the military . To Army veterans , the war made little sense . Confused sergeants , whose 20 years of service span the end of World ...
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... experience may now look to deprive us of it - peculiarly , by confining us within it . This can seem a solution to the problem of joining temporal experience and atemporal sense which so exercised the writers Fish began by reading , or ...
... experience may now look to deprive us of it - peculiarly , by confining us within it . This can seem a solution to the problem of joining temporal experience and atemporal sense which so exercised the writers Fish began by reading , or ...
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... experience and the interpretation of experience , the temporal world of history and a timeless afterlife , and political commitment and scholarship . Camilo's sym- bolic reunion with his father's ghost reflects a deeper effort by Koster ...
... experience and the interpretation of experience , the temporal world of history and a timeless afterlife , and political commitment and scholarship . Camilo's sym- bolic reunion with his father's ghost reflects a deeper effort by Koster ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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