Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-contemporary American Fiction |
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Page 106
... expression ; perhaps , as John O'Brien spec- ulates , " because it lacks immediacy . " Jones chooses instead " the activity of jazz , making his novel read and sound like a John Col- trane composition . " 10 He uses language " less as a ...
... expression ; perhaps , as John O'Brien spec- ulates , " because it lacks immediacy . " Jones chooses instead " the activity of jazz , making his novel read and sound like a John Col- trane composition . " 10 He uses language " less as a ...
Page 109
... expression . In " Heroes Are Gang Leaders " the protagonist is in a hospital ward , eating candy and paging through books about heroism which the charity ladies , surprised that he can read , have given him . Two police officers come in ...
... expression . In " Heroes Are Gang Leaders " the protagonist is in a hospital ward , eating candy and paging through books about heroism which the charity ladies , surprised that he can read , have given him . Two police officers come in ...
Page 111
... expression , and the state of the times demands that this expression stand in opposition to the more dominant modes . That his fiction produced as the end product of this new aesthetic matches so closely the work of other American ...
... expression , and the state of the times demands that this expression stand in opposition to the more dominant modes . That his fiction produced as the end product of this new aesthetic matches so closely the work of other American ...
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