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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... human pioneers . Little is known about the abo culture , but some colonists believe they were shape - shifters who did not die out at all but assumed human form in order to survive during the time of colonization . Since then , the abo ...
... human pioneers . Little is known about the abo culture , but some colonists believe they were shape - shifters who did not die out at all but assumed human form in order to survive during the time of colonization . Since then , the abo ...
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... human beings engaged in living . But how human are they ? What happens when the reality of the world confronts our own humanity ? Jerzy Kosinski's * fictions address this issue . The following pas- sage from Steps ( 1968 ) pits the human ...
... human beings engaged in living . But how human are they ? What happens when the reality of the world confronts our own humanity ? Jerzy Kosinski's * fictions address this issue . The following pas- sage from Steps ( 1968 ) pits the human ...
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... human practice : No , the ultimate form of the " nightmare of history " is rather the fact of labor itself , and the intolerable spectacle of the backbreaking millennial toil of millions of people from the earliest moment of human ...
... human practice : No , the ultimate form of the " nightmare of history " is rather the fact of labor itself , and the intolerable spectacle of the backbreaking millennial toil of millions of people from the earliest moment of human ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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