The scope of the work is broad, with European and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for collections that emphasize fiction of the past two decades. Library Journal
Caffery /f Larry /r ed. affery /f Lawrence /i F. /r ed.
?A useful guide to postmodern fiction, this work is divided into
two parts; a series of overview articles covering the major themes
and stylistic tendencies that most postmodern fiction shares; and
individual author entries of three to four pages that include a
brief biographical and critical survey of the author and a selected
bibliography of primary and secondary sources. . . . Postmodern
Fiction is recommended for academic libraries where postmodern
fiction is taught because of the additional authors covered, the
updated information on some other authors, the excellent index, and
the overview articles.?-Choice
?Despite the title, the introduction to this work cautions readers
to be wary of labels such as postmodernism' and to think more
generally of a highly complex set of ideas or tendencies.' The work
itself examines texts from the early 1960s, whose common trait is
the rejection of realism, however defined. Part 1, Overview
Articles, ' is divided into Postmodern Fiction (13 essays) and
Criticism (2 essays). Part 2, Authors and Critics of Postmodern
Fiction, ' consists of some 100 short bio-bibliographical essays
that include notes and selected bibliography of primary and
secondary sources. The scope of the work is broad, with European
and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for
collections that emphasize fiction of the past two
decades.?-Library Journal
?What can be said is that the bio-bibliographical accounts are
almost uniformly intelligent, informative, fair-minded,
discriminating, and enthusiastic--a feat all the more to be admired
given the fact that each discussion averages only about three pages
and manages to include in that brief space description, criticism
and evaluation, some biographical information, and lists of primary
as well as secondary sources. In short, readers will find
themselves extremely well served by the reference section of the
volume.... One should note too the helpful bibliography of
postmodern criticism with which the volume ends. Like his editorial
principles, McCaffery's introductory essay is generous and
tolerant: a sensible, commonsensical, and imaginative survey of the
nature and history of postmodernism that sets a high standard for
his contributors to match. . . . Postmodern Fiction is a major
reference guide that, because it so amply and admirably fulfills
its editor's aim, should be consulted by all students of the field
and that, even as the field continues to grow and change, its
likely to serve as a point de repere for a good many years to come.
What we take away from the book, besides a variety of intelligent
viewpoints, a good deal of useful information, and a host of
challenging ideas, is a sense of postmodernism as something, in the
words LeClair uses to describe his novelists of excess and
performance, at least potentially both deconstructive and
reconstructive?-Alan Wilde Temple University
"A useful guide to postmodern fiction, this work is divided into
two parts; a series of overview articles covering the major themes
and stylistic tendencies that most postmodern fiction shares; and
individual author entries of three to four pages that include a
brief biographical and critical survey of the author and a selected
bibliography of primary and secondary sources. . . . Postmodern
Fiction is recommended for academic libraries where postmodern
fiction is taught because of the additional authors covered, the
updated information on some other authors, the excellent index, and
the overview articles."-Choice
"Despite the title, the introduction to this work cautions readers
to be wary of labels such as postmodernism' and to think more
generally of a highly complex set of ideas or tendencies.' The work
itself examines texts from the early 1960s, whose common trait is
the rejection of realism, however defined. Part 1, Overview
Articles, ' is divided into Postmodern Fiction (13 essays) and
Criticism (2 essays). Part 2, Authors and Critics of Postmodern
Fiction, ' consists of some 100 short bio-bibliographical essays
that include notes and selected bibliography of primary and
secondary sources. The scope of the work is broad, with European
and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for
collections that emphasize fiction of the past two
decades."-Library Journal
"What can be said is that the bio-bibliographical accounts are
almost uniformly intelligent, informative, fair-minded,
discriminating, and enthusiastic--a feat all the more to be admired
given the fact that each discussion averages only about three pages
and manages to include in that brief space description, criticism
and evaluation, some biographical information, and lists of primary
as well as secondary sources. In short, readers will find
themselves extremely well served by the reference section of the
volume.... One should note too the helpful bibliography of
postmodern criticism with which the volume ends. Like his editorial
principles, McCaffery's introductory essay is generous and
tolerant: a sensible, commonsensical, and imaginative survey of the
nature and history of postmodernism that sets a high standard for
his contributors to match. . . . Postmodern Fiction is a major
reference guide that, because it so amply and admirably fulfills
its editor's aim, should be consulted by all students of the field
and that, even as the field continues to grow and change, its
likely to serve as a point de repere for a good many years to come.
What we take away from the book, besides a variety of intelligent
viewpoints, a good deal of useful information, and a host of
challenging ideas, is a sense of postmodernism as something, in the
words LeClair uses to describe his novelists of excess and
performance, at least potentially both deconstructive and
reconstructive"-Alan Wilde Temple University
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