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 201
... moved away from the canon . Both Cortázar and Vargas Llosa , for example , abandoned the extravagant formal experimentation of Hopscotch and The Green House and drifted toward certain modes of realism : A Manual for Manuel and Captain ...
... moved away from the canon . Both Cortázar and Vargas Llosa , for example , abandoned the extravagant formal experimentation of Hopscotch and The Green House and drifted toward certain modes of realism : A Manual for Manuel and Captain ...
Page 263
... moved with his mother and brother to her parents ' home in Bayonne after his father , Louis , was killed in a naval battle in 1916. They moved to Paris when he was nine , and when he was nineteen , he received the baccalaureate and ...
... moved with his mother and brother to her parents ' home in Bayonne after his father , Louis , was killed in a naval battle in 1916. They moved to Paris when he was nine , and when he was nineteen , he received the baccalaureate and ...
Page 402
... moved onto a piece of land near Willits , California , where they built a house , sans electricity , owned a horse named Tuumba , and remained for several years . The relative solitude of the Willits period seems to have been critical ...
... moved onto a piece of land near Willits , California , where they built a house , sans electricity , owned a horse named Tuumba , and remained for several years . The relative solitude of the Willits period seems to have been critical ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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