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Telling stories Telling stories Michael Roemer Michael Roemer's groundbreaking work argues that every story, be it ancient myth or documentary film, is completed before we read or watch it. He explores why a society like ours, predicated on free … OL13535401W
POSTMODERN HUMANISM IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE: RECONCILING THE VOID POSTMODERN HUMANISM IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE: RECONCILING THE VOID TODD F. DAVIS xxv, 198 p. ; 23 cm OL13666785W
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Italo Calvino L'impresa di cercare di scrivere romanzi 'apocrifi', cioè che immagino siano scritti da un autore che non sono io e che non esiste, l'ho portata fino in fondo nel mio libro 'Se una notte d'inverno un… OL15321W
Postmodern American Poetry Postmodern American Poetry Paul Hoover This revised and expanded edition features 114 poets, 557 poems, and 15 poetics essays, addressing important recent movements such as Newlipo, conceptual poetry, and Flarf. Bringing together foundati… OL17782592W
The Cambridge introduction to postmodern fiction The Cambridge introduction to postmodern fiction Bran Nicol "Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own … OL1946913W
Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile Gisela Norat "Out of the turmoil and repression of Chilean dictatorial rule in the 1970s and 1980s emerged Diamela Eltit (born 1949), a writer who baffled the country's literary intelligentsia with a narrative wo… OL19637910W
Politics and form in postmodern poetry Politics and form in postmodern poetry Mutlu Konuk Blasing Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional for… OL19816697W
The Holocaust and the postmodern The Holocaust and the postmodern Robert Eaglestone Reading and the holocaust: 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books' : identification and the genre of testimony ; Traces of experience : the texts of testimony ; 'Faithful and doubtful,… OL19855721W
Zur Ästhetik der Provokation Zur Ästhetik der Provokation Oliver Ruf In der Proklamation ästhetischer Provokation haben die modernen Ästhetiken der Avantgarde die potenzielle Realisierung der Autonomie von Kunst wie von Literatur gesehen. Insbesondere Hugo Balls Schri… OL22708042W
postmodern beraler samdhane postmodern beraler samdhane Rudra Kinshuk Study on influence of postmodernism on modern Bengali poetry. OL2601025W
Riverbank and seashore in nineteenth and twentieth century British literature Riverbank and seashore in nineteenth and twentieth century British literature Gillian Mary Hanson "This book examines the ways in which 21 modern and postmodern writers have made use of the physical environment in their work. It considers how each author employs the physical settings in the plot … OL2711600W
Disturbing the universe Disturbing the universe Roberta Seelinger Trites "Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an out-growth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of in… OL3360481W
Don DeLillo Don DeLillo David Cowart "Charting DeLillo's emergence as a contemporary novelist of major stature, David Cowart discusses each of DeLillo's twelve novels, including his most recent work, The Body Artist (2001). Rejecting th… OL4313780W
Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Coleman, James W. "Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of Jo… OL4647525W
The fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson, and Carter The fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson, and Carter Gregory J Rubinson "This book takes an in-depth look at the works of these authors with specific emphasis on how they use literary devices to challenge fundamental ideas about politics, race, nationality and gender. Th… OL5822505W
The post-condition The post-condition National Seminar "Interrogating the 'Post' Condition: Theory, Texts, and Contexts" (2000 Punjabi University) Papers presented at National Seminar "Interrogating the 'Post' Condition: Theory, Texts, and Contexts," held on 20-21 January, 2000, at Punjabi University, Patiala. OL5979843W
Enemies within Enemies within Jacqueline Foertsch "Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and … OL7795646W
Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme Helen Moore Barthelme "Chronicling a literary life that ended not so long ago, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound gives the reader a glimpse at the years when Barthelme began to find his literary voice. A revea… OL7795722W
Hicks, tribes & dirty realists Hicks, tribes & dirty realists Robert Rebein "In Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism, Robert Rebein argues that fiction writing in America is alive and well, contrary to the common assumption that the experim… OL7797488W
States of suspense States of suspense Daniel Cordle "When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it not only signalled the final phase of the Second World War, it also precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Col… OL9491215W
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