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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... sense of play and formal outrageousness ; André Gide's The Counterfeiters , with its self - reflexiveness and self - com- mentary ; Franz Kafka's matter - of - fact surrealistic presentation of the self and its relationship to society ...
... sense of play and formal outrageousness ; André Gide's The Counterfeiters , with its self - reflexiveness and self - com- mentary ; Franz Kafka's matter - of - fact surrealistic presentation of the self and its relationship to society ...
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... sense ( according to which language cuts the thought grooves of our imag- ination ) but , rather , in a Vološinovian - Bakhtinian sense in which the word embodies heteroglossia , reverberates with the multiaccentuated tonalities of a ...
... sense ( according to which language cuts the thought grooves of our imag- ination ) but , rather , in a Vološinovian - Bakhtinian sense in which the word embodies heteroglossia , reverberates with the multiaccentuated tonalities of a ...
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... sense of loss - of lions , of freedom , of civilization itself — but also a yearning , a striving for redemp- tion . Even the conclusions of his novels leave us with this sense of elu- siveness , with something unresolved : at the end ...
... sense of loss - of lions , of freedom , of civilization itself — but also a yearning , a striving for redemp- tion . Even the conclusions of his novels leave us with this sense of elu- siveness , with something unresolved : at the end ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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