Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-contemporary American Fiction |
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... Federman The disruption of American fiction is substantial : Donald Bar- thelme's comic disabuse has made it uneasy for writers to write , or readers to read , in the insipid forms of the past ; and Jerzy Kosinski and others have ...
... Federman The disruption of American fiction is substantial : Donald Bar- thelme's comic disabuse has made it uneasy for writers to write , or readers to read , in the insipid forms of the past ; and Jerzy Kosinski and others have ...
Page 131
... Federman , however , would rather gamble , double or nothing . Hence in Melvin Friedman's Samuel Beckett Now ( 1970 ) he critically establishes that " the truth is that fiction is not reality , it is simply a language which tells its ...
... Federman , however , would rather gamble , double or nothing . Hence in Melvin Friedman's Samuel Beckett Now ( 1970 ) he critically establishes that " the truth is that fiction is not reality , it is simply a language which tells its ...
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... Federman divides its role into thirds : a third person , the protagonist , whose life becomes the accumulation of historical data in the usual sense ; but also second and first persons - respec- tively the " inventor , " who quite ...
... Federman divides its role into thirds : a third person , the protagonist , whose life becomes the accumulation of historical data in the usual sense ; but also second and first persons - respec- tively the " inventor , " who quite ...
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