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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... period - some of the great innovators of the previous gen- eration continued to explore new forms ( Faulkner , Stein , Fitzgerald ) , and a few newcomers with an experimental bent appeared ( Djuna Barnes , Kenneth Patchen , Nathaniel ...
... period - some of the great innovators of the previous gen- eration continued to explore new forms ( Faulkner , Stein , Fitzgerald ) , and a few newcomers with an experimental bent appeared ( Djuna Barnes , Kenneth Patchen , Nathaniel ...
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... period in our history . Living as we do in a period of an extraordinary revolution in communications and access to information , the artists of our time share more than ever a homogeneous cultural - historical tradition . For poets and ...
... period in our history . Living as we do in a period of an extraordinary revolution in communications and access to information , the artists of our time share more than ever a homogeneous cultural - historical tradition . For poets and ...
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... period , both construct a virtual compendium of literary styles and forms , both display a remark- able ear for the sources of voice that make up a country's lingo , both rely on a complex interaction of realism , myth , and fabulism to ...
... period , both construct a virtual compendium of literary styles and forms , both display a remark- able ear for the sources of voice that make up a country's lingo , both rely on a complex interaction of realism , myth , and fabulism to ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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