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 191
... finally begun to overcome economic dependency by naming it , and it had begun to formulate a cultural independence by cannibalizing European traditions . In the belief that the new literature had invented a truly proper language , it ...
... finally begun to overcome economic dependency by naming it , and it had begun to formulate a cultural independence by cannibalizing European traditions . In the belief that the new literature had invented a truly proper language , it ...
Page 192
... finally possess his own kingdom . For its authors and critical fellow travelers , the new literature was iden- tified as revolutionary , no longer in simple metaphorical terms , but rather as a constitutive power . Unlike European ...
... finally possess his own kingdom . For its authors and critical fellow travelers , the new literature was iden- tified as revolutionary , no longer in simple metaphorical terms , but rather as a constitutive power . Unlike European ...
Page 509
... finally in the spiritual condition of late twentieth - century Americans . Stone was born in New York City on August 21 , 1937 to working - class parents . Fatherless as a child , he spent three years in an orphanage when his mother was ...
... finally in the spiritual condition of late twentieth - century Americans . Stone was born in New York City on August 21 , 1937 to working - class parents . Fatherless as a child , he spent three years in an orphanage when his mother was ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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