Showing papers in "Critique-studies in Contemporary Fiction in 1993"
TL;DR: The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried as mentioned in this paper is a well-known example of the uncertainty of the protagonist.
Abstract: (1993). The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 43-52.
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TL;DR: The Voice of History in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about the author's work and his influence on the literature of contemporary fiction.
Abstract: (1993). The Voice of History in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-15.
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TL;DR: The Joy Luck Club: Generational differences and the Diaspora in The Joy Luck club as mentioned in this paper, a novel about generational differences in the Joyluck Club. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 34, Women Writers, pp. 193-199.
Abstract: (1993). Generational Differences and the Diaspora in The Joy Luck Club. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 34, Women Writers, pp. 193-199.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Nabokov in Postmodernist Land is described as a "postmodernist land" where "everything is post-modernist" and "nothing is postmodernist".
Abstract: (1993). Nabokov in Postmodernist Land. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 247-260.
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TL;DR: In the Secret Chamber: Art and the Artist in Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard as mentioned in this paper, the artist in the secret chamber is the same as the author of this paper.
Abstract: (1993). Into the Secret Chamber: Art and the Artist in Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 16-26.
TL;DR: Schaeffer's Buffalo Afternoon and the Issue of Authenticity as discussed by the authors is a classic example of a novel about the issue of authenticity in contemporary fiction, with a focus on women writers.
Abstract: (1993). How Dare She? Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's Buffalo Afternoon and the Issue of Authenticity. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 34, Women Writers, pp. 183-192.
TL;DR: Lives of the Poets, E. L. Doctorow's seventh work, first published in 1984, occupies a unique space in his writings as mentioned in this paper, which is an exploration of the nature of writing itself and of the relation of writing to the life of its author.
Abstract: Lives ofthe Poets, E. L. Doctorow’s seventh work, first published in 1984, occupies a unique space in his writings. Its most obvious difference from the other work is announced in its subtitle, A Novella and Six Stories, because, apart from the 1979 play, Drinks Before Dinner, Doctorow’s previous work had been in the novel form. A case could be made for considering Lives ofthe Poets almost an aberration within the Doctorow canon. Among its diverse themes and settings the collection becomes an exploration of the nature of writing itself and of the relation of writing to the life of its author. Doctorow had never before treated this issue so explicitly, though a debate about the reliability of fiction had often been implicitly present in his work. The style of the book is also markedly different from the other work. Doctorow appears willing to allow his self and voice to emerge more fully than they ever had before. Lives of the Poets could also be said to lack something of the ambitious breadth of Doctorow’s novels. The multiple plotting and discontinuities that might be considered typical of Doctorow’s writing are here apparently disregarded in favor of a series of self-contained stories. Doctorow’s typically sustained focus on a particular time period is also absent. Whether writing of the 1870s, the turn of the century, the 1960s or the 1930s, Doctorow had maintained the focus on that time even while diffusing the action. In contrast, the short stories here range broadly in time and setting. However, in spite of the elements that would make Lives of the Poets an oddity among Doctorow’s works, the book illuminates and adds much to our understanding of the novels. It may remain an aberration, but one that it was essential for Doctorow to write and that is in itself a major achievement. For the reader to appreciate fully the unfolding of its meanings, Lives of the Poets must be read in sequence. It would be possible to detach particular stories and consider them complete in themselves, but Doctorow’s achievement in the book is an overall one in which the stories are interdependent and contribute to a
TL;DR: Thom Thomson's Suspicious Hollywood Biographies as discussed by the authors is a collection of suspicious Hollywood biographies written in the early nineties, with a focus on movie adaptations, and is published in 1993.
Abstract: (1993). David Thomson's Suspicious Hollywood Biographies. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 53-64.