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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... possible SF texts as well . The successful post- modern work of science fiction adds to the genre and exhausts it at the same time . The premier parodist of postmodern science fiction is the Italian writer Italo Calvino , and in his ...
... possible SF texts as well . The successful post- modern work of science fiction adds to the genre and exhausts it at the same time . The premier parodist of postmodern science fiction is the Italian writer Italo Calvino , and in his ...
Page 234
... possible a theory of meaning and referen- tiality - as - immediacy that in Derrida's reading renders secondary the ... possible , a disinheritance of origins , or to put it in Nietzschean terms , the objective is to remember in such a ...
... possible a theory of meaning and referen- tiality - as - immediacy that in Derrida's reading renders secondary the ... possible , a disinheritance of origins , or to put it in Nietzschean terms , the objective is to remember in such a ...
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... possible story is already implicit in the rules of literature , just as any possible game of chess is implicit in the rules of chess . In this sense , the writer writes only what has already been written . The folktale is the oldest and ...
... possible story is already implicit in the rules of literature , just as any possible game of chess is implicit in the rules of chess . In this sense , the writer writes only what has already been written . The folktale is the oldest and ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
Copyright | |
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