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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... individual author entries , arranged in alphabetical order , which provide a summary of the writer's life and literary career , a critical assessment of the major works , and a selected bibliography ; these bibliographies are usually ...
... individual author entries , arranged in alphabetical order , which provide a summary of the writer's life and literary career , a critical assessment of the major works , and a selected bibliography ; these bibliographies are usually ...
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... individual articles . But because the focus of this volume is on nontra- ditional fiction , I have omitted from the categories and individual author entries all writers whose basic impulses seemed to be conventional realism . Thus ...
... individual articles . But because the focus of this volume is on nontra- ditional fiction , I have omitted from the categories and individual author entries all writers whose basic impulses seemed to be conventional realism . Thus ...
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... individual . These are terms which The Land of the Pure ( Pakistan , as it calls itself ) lives to extremes , but which are present to most all of our lives , individual and national , historical and fictional . As universal as it is ...
... individual . These are terms which The Land of the Pure ( Pakistan , as it calls itself ) lives to extremes , but which are present to most all of our lives , individual and national , historical and fictional . As universal as it is ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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