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 131
... social changes of their time - Norman Mailer , Allen Ginsberg , Adrienne Rich , and Joan Didion * are a representative sample of this group - and we have had writers who have directed their major creative energies toward revolutionizing ...
... social changes of their time - Norman Mailer , Allen Ginsberg , Adrienne Rich , and Joan Didion * are a representative sample of this group - and we have had writers who have directed their major creative energies toward revolutionizing ...
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... social context.22 Cabrera Infante's masterly pastiche and word - play also instantiate the texture of a changing social context ( a dec- adent dependent culture on the eve of revolution ) which is conceived as meaningless . Although ...
... social context.22 Cabrera Infante's masterly pastiche and word - play also instantiate the texture of a changing social context ( a dec- adent dependent culture on the eve of revolution ) which is conceived as meaningless . Although ...
Page 417
... social existence , of both material and in- tellectual production , of our insertion into history - to " recuperate " such matters from their repressed position in the dominant discourse , from our political unconscious . His ...
... social existence , of both material and in- tellectual production , of our insertion into history - to " recuperate " such matters from their repressed position in the dominant discourse , from our political unconscious . His ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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