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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... meaning took a sharp knock : language pre - dated the individual , and was much less his or her product than he or she was the product of it . Meaning was not “ natural , ” a question of just looking and seeing , or something eternally ...
... meaning took a sharp knock : language pre - dated the individual , and was much less his or her product than he or she was the product of it . Meaning was not “ natural , ” a question of just looking and seeing , or something eternally ...
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... meaning of structure . Rather than accept the axiology of the center , Derrida problematizes the efficacy of the center by bringing out a contradiction : The center is at the center of the totality , and yet , since the center does not ...
... meaning of structure . Rather than accept the axiology of the center , Derrida problematizes the efficacy of the center by bringing out a contradiction : The center is at the center of the totality , and yet , since the center does not ...
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... meaning . According to this view , meaning depends not on the premature exclamations of an always incompleted reference ( to God , to truth , to justice , and so on ) , but on the unsettled play of différance , that is , the inner and ...
... meaning . According to this view , meaning depends not on the premature exclamations of an always incompleted reference ( to God , to truth , to justice , and so on ) , but on the unsettled play of différance , that is , the inner and ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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