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 70
... plot in the same way painters use the limitations of paint and canvas . “ Eugene Randall held the gun in front of his mouth and fired , " this piece begins , just where more conven- tionally plotted stories might end . " The bullet ...
... plot in the same way painters use the limitations of paint and canvas . “ Eugene Randall held the gun in front of his mouth and fired , " this piece begins , just where more conven- tionally plotted stories might end . " The bullet ...
Page 99
... plot , blocking the reader's detection of the figure in the carpet . We have the wandering narrative thwarting unity , the difficulty of connecting things up , which is the hallmark of Finnegans Wake . Thomas Pynchon's * V. ( 1963 ) ...
... plot , blocking the reader's detection of the figure in the carpet . We have the wandering narrative thwarting unity , the difficulty of connecting things up , which is the hallmark of Finnegans Wake . Thomas Pynchon's * V. ( 1963 ) ...
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... plot ; and there are desirable plots and undesirable plots , plots that project a good telos and those that in- augurate a bad telos . The choice of telos is not formal or epistemological , but intensely moral . And as a committed ...
... plot ; and there are desirable plots and undesirable plots , plots that project a good telos and those that in- augurate a bad telos . The choice of telos is not formal or epistemological , but intensely moral . And as a committed ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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