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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... political thrust of postmodern experimentalism , it will surely soon be recognized that the fiction of Barthelme , Coover , Sukenick , Federman , Gaddis , Barth , Pyn- chon , DeLillo , Silliman , and other innovators of postmodernism is ...
... political thrust of postmodern experimentalism , it will surely soon be recognized that the fiction of Barthelme , Coover , Sukenick , Federman , Gaddis , Barth , Pyn- chon , DeLillo , Silliman , and other innovators of postmodernism is ...
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... political , and cultural forms that make up reality . We might expect that a feminist literary program would demand the rejection of realism as inherently male - defined . And indeed , critics have either described or prescribed ...
... political , and cultural forms that make up reality . We might expect that a feminist literary program would demand the rejection of realism as inherently male - defined . And indeed , critics have either described or prescribed ...
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... political conflicts prefigured later confrontations . During the 1950s and early 1960s , Kundera taught literature and pub- lished a variety of works , including literary criticism , three volumes of poetry ( which won governmental ...
... political conflicts prefigured later confrontations . During the 1950s and early 1960s , Kundera taught literature and pub- lished a variety of works , including literary criticism , three volumes of poetry ( which won governmental ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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