Putting Hopeless Lives On the Map

The Washington Post;  August 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......in the giddy self- referenced hall of mirrors that is postmodern fiction could be forgiven for asking themselves some variation...characters are not, as are so many of their counterparts in postmodern fiction, appointed to feel bad in pat and ambient exercises of...

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After....

symploke;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Rewriting is an extended argument for postmodern fiction's ongoing engagement with the narratives...proposes a transactive model in which postmodern fiction destroys narrative practices in order...triangulations, offering a lucid assessment of postmodern fiction's place in post-Cold ...

Not "Of Woman Born": Fairy Tale Mothers for Postmodern Literary Children

Femspec;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......CLASSIC FAIRY TALES AND POSTMODERN FICTION Mothers are problematic...tales to contemporary postmodern fiction, emplotting them has...found in this type of postmodern fiction, the notion of biological...

The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics, Culture, and the Crisis...

Studies in the Humanities;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Williams asserts that Latin American postmodern fiction was born in Argentina. Throughout...transitional figure in the development of postmodern fiction. Cortazar's novel Hopscotch (1963...transitional figure between modern and postmodern fiction in Mexico, often uses space and ...

The children of 1965: allegory, postmodernism, and Jhumpa Lahiri's The...

Twentieth Century Literature;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......white techno-nerds (Neal Stephenson). Far from thinking of postmodern fiction and the ethnic novel as dividing the postwar literary...mastered the rhetoric and formal innovations associated with postmodern fiction. This mainstreaming seeks, especially through a focus...

Conte, Joseph M. Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American...

Studies in American Fiction;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......less convincing. Conte too sharply divides modern from postmodern fiction, and in terms of Kuhnian paradigm shifts. This subjects...the nature of life. A thoughtful final chapter considers postmodern fiction in the context of digital challenges to print, with special...

Intertextual Pursuits: Literary Meditations in Modern Spanish Narrative....

World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     580 words ......things, conditions, and ideas. In Splitting the Reference: Postmodern Fiction and the Idea of History in Francoist Spain, David Herzberger...to eradicate the distinction between historiography and postmodern fiction. This splitting of the reference denies historiography...

Painting Clio's portrait: metaphors on the postmodern palette. (metaphors...

CLIO;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Time (1992), Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth suggests that in postmodern fiction a historical paradigm shift has occurred which she expresses...forcefully as Ermarth by the presence of jazz time in postmodern fiction, Ermarth's study, among others, has inspired me to collect...

Done with Mirrors: Restoring the Authority Lost in John Barth's Funhouse.

Twentieth Century Literature;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......has often been touted as one of the principal traits of postmodern fiction. As Linda Hutcheon says, What we tend to call postmodernism...overtly parodic intertextuality ( Historiographic 3). Postmodern fiction, then, often exhibits a metafictional quality. Metafiction...

(book reviews)

Symposium;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......s Press, 1995. 150 In his study of Latin American Postmodern Fiction, Professor Raymond Williams convincingly contends...outlines the origins and development of Latin American postmodern fiction, organizing it into chapters that concentrate on four...historical information regarding the origin of ...

The Novel as an Absence: Lukács and the Event of Postmodern Fiction

Novel;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...This essay is about the formal-that is to say, the nonrepresentational, nonnarrative-elements of so-called postmodern fiction. What interests me about those elements is the extent to which they signal the status of the text as irreducibly an...

Postmodern fiction that's actually fun Haruki Murakami's new novel mixes...

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ......excellent demonstration of why he's deservedly famous, both here and in his native land. He writes uncanny, philosophical, postmodern fiction that's actually fun to read; he's a more serious Tom Robbins, a less dense Thomas Pynchon. Like those two, he mixes high...

(book review)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 2003 ;     305 words ......systems and electronic media theory, and cognitive science. The critic is here in distinguished company: Brian McHale, for postmodern fiction criticism and fictional (possible) worlds theory, and in relation to the latter, Thomas Pavel, Marie-Laure Ryan, and David...

Approaching the threshold(s) in postmodern detective fiction: Hawthorne's...

CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......anti-detective, as a significant figure in postmodern fiction. What is the metaphysical detective, and what...that figure to postmodernism? Like much of postmodern fiction, metaphysical detective novels appropriate...

Pedro de Jesus. Frigid Tales.(Book Review)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  June 22, 2003 ;     265 words ......if they weren't so horny all the time, and true, too, Pedro de Jesus makes use of the cerebral and distancing forms of postmodern fiction, although he cannot resist descending into a realism he has been taught to disparage--in short, the stories are the product...