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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Thomas discusses Carter’s use of literary, pictorial, and cinematographic conventions to create a postmodern narrative in her story “Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene.”]...
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From: Anglistik[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Bayer examines Fowles’s first three novels, arguing that they demonstrate how understanding him as a nature writer enhances the study of him as a novelist.] John Fowles...
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From: Essays in Arts and Sciences[(essay date October 2001) In the following essay, Gitzen compares Barnes to Alain de Botton, commenting on the postmodern conventions of self-reflexivity, indeterminacy, and metanarrative in their novels.] One of the...
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From: Anglistik und Englischunterricht[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Tönnies discusses Barnes’s Love, etc. and several other contemporary works as examples of postmodernism assuming a more self-conscious tone at the beginning of the twenty-first...
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From: Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Morris considers the way fiction by Saunders and Eggers takes part in the “enactment of the ethical possibilities or … the politics of fiction in the wake of postmodernism.”]...
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From: Approaching Postmodernism: Papers Presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21-23 September 1984, University of Utrecht[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, originally presented at a workshop in September 1984, Todd discusses Spark’s novels as metafiction and explores their relationship to The Movement, a group of postmodernist...
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From: Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel since the 1960s[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Safer examines Pynchon’s postmodernism “in terms of Fredric Jameson’s sociopolitical critique of American society.” This critique focuses on high-tech paranoia and its relation...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In U and I: A True Story, Nicholson Baker describes his "lasting literary influences? Um—The Tailor of Gloucester, Harold Nicolson, Richard Pryor, Seuss's If I Ran the Circus, Edmund Burke, Nabokov, Boswell, Tintin, Iris...
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From: British Women Writing Fiction[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Goertz addresses the dangers for women of being objects of desire rather than active sexual subjects in Carter's writings.] Vampires and sleeping beauties, winged trapeze...
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From: Philosophical Events: Essays of the '80s, Columbia[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Rajchman describes Les Immatériaux, and discusses the nature of postmodernism and its relation to language, technoscience and modernism.] Les...
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From: The New Yorker[(review date 23 November 1992) In the following review, Klinkenborg offers an unfavorable evaluation of English Music.] In Peter Ackroyd's sixth novel, English Music, a great thickness of remembered time lies over the...
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From: College Literature[(essay date spring 2003) In the following excerpt, Carpenter addresses the postmodern classification of both the Vietnam War and the fiction that resulted from it by discussing the importance and meaninglessness of...
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From: CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History[(essay date fall 1997) In the following essay, Berni reads Carter's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders" as a commentary on traditional literary and historical representations of the past.] Immortalized in the...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date 1982) In the essay below, Wilson argues that a "Grail Quest theme" links the stories of The Ebony Tower, citing literary precedents and structural and technical similarities to The Magus.] In the opening...
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From: Journal of Modern LiteratureSpeaking about The Collector a few months after its publication, John Fowles commented that he was “shocked” to find British “intellectual” periodicals treating the novel as mere crime fiction. He explained that it was...
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From: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Marais argues "that J. M. Coetzee's novella 'The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee' . . . suggests as much about the ethnocentricity of early South African travel writing" as does...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)As for so many Hispanic writers, for Severo Sarduy exile has been not only the loss of family, culture, and sense of place, but the loss of language. Spanish, specifically Cuban Spanish, begins to fade for the writer the...
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From: Critique[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Jeffers discusses the imagery in Byatt's Possession, particularly her use of the color white.] you speak to me in riddles & you speak to me in rhymes. My body aches to...
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From: Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Rowe discusses Douglass's Narrative as an important text not just in the literary history of America, but also in the country's political and economic history.] Douglass has...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)An Italian novelist, critic, and academic, who studied philosophy at the University of Turin, Umberto Eco's thesis subject on an aspect of medieval philosophy eventually provided the basis for his first book, Il problema...