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Similarly, Tim O'Brien's 1990 short story cycle The Things They Carried, about one platoon's experiences during the Vietnam War, features a character named Tim O'Brien; though O'Brien was a Vietnam veteran, the book is a work of fiction and O'Brien calls into question the fictionality of the characters and incidents throughout the book. One ...
In their book, "Revisiting Postmodernism", Terry Farrell and Adam Furman argue that postmodernism brought a more joyous and sensual experience to the culture, particularly in architecture. [83] For instance, in response to the modernist slogan of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe that "less is more", the postmodernist Robert Venturi rejoined that "less ...
The prefix "meta-" referred not so much to a reflective stance or repeated rumination, but to Plato's metaxy, which denotes a movement between (meta) opposite poles as well as beyond (meta) them. Vermeulen and van den Akker described metamodernism as a " structure of feeling " that oscillates between modernism and postmodernism like "a pendulum ...
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.
The term 'metafiction' was coined in 1970 by William H. Gass in his book Fiction and the Figures of Life. [11] Gass describes the increasing use of metafiction at the time as a result of authors developing a better understanding of the medium.
Once you factor in how many books appear on the typical set of shelves—and the back-and-forth necessary to clear the rights, compounded by the tight turnarounds of TV shows—it becomes a whole ...
The 2005 survey "A Nagy Könyv" (The Big Book) of 400, 000 voters keretében had Dirty Fred The Captain as the 37th most popular book amongst Hungarians (and the 18th most popular book by Hungarian authors) The 2017 survey "A nemzet könyve" (Book of the Nation), had Dirty Fred The Captain came 7th overall.
A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959.Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.