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 129
... poets and novelists share similar verbal talents but utilize those talents in strikingly different ways for almost wholly separate groups of readers . The worlds of poetry and fiction in the United States are in fact separately ...
... poets and novelists share similar verbal talents but utilize those talents in strikingly different ways for almost wholly separate groups of readers . The worlds of poetry and fiction in the United States are in fact separately ...
Page 130
... poetry , " that someone will recognize the poet and the novelist as two different aspects of the same soul — but alas , the genres are reviewed by two different groups of people , so no one ever seems to notice this in print . " 2 A few ...
... poetry , " that someone will recognize the poet and the novelist as two different aspects of the same soul — but alas , the genres are reviewed by two different groups of people , so no one ever seems to notice this in print . " 2 A few ...
Page 137
... poetry of the early 1960s . Following the publication of Robert Lowell's Life Studies ( 1959 ) , in which a mainstream American poet had written " My mind's not right / I myself am hell , / nobody's here , " poets began to write about ...
... poetry of the early 1960s . Following the publication of Robert Lowell's Life Studies ( 1959 ) , in which a mainstream American poet had written " My mind's not right / I myself am hell , / nobody's here , " poets began to write about ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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