| Critifiction: Postmodern Essays Contributor(s): Federman, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791416798 ISBN-13: 9780791416792 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 809.304 |
| LCCN: 92044360 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 133 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term "Surfiction" for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli. |