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 107
... Style ( 1947 ) . The same pointless anecdote is retold 99 different ways . The notion of style used here is very broad , ranging from what everyone would accept as stylistic variation to mathematical permutations of letters . It is only ...
... Style ( 1947 ) . The same pointless anecdote is retold 99 different ways . The notion of style used here is very broad , ranging from what everyone would accept as stylistic variation to mathematical permutations of letters . It is only ...
Page 220
... style became plain style , and the primary virtue in both exposition and literature was perspicuity . The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge moved to " reject all amplifications , digressions , and swellings of style ...
... style became plain style , and the primary virtue in both exposition and literature was perspicuity . The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge moved to " reject all amplifications , digressions , and swellings of style ...
Page 350
... style which is his trademark , enacting what he has termed " the aggression of syntax and metaphor , " the literary bully's means of bearing down on the world . That style - an eruption of puns , violent yokings of disparate idioms ...
... style which is his trademark , enacting what he has termed " the aggression of syntax and metaphor , " the literary bully's means of bearing down on the world . That style - an eruption of puns , violent yokings of disparate idioms ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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