Essays are primarily "revised versions of papers given at a conference on Neo-Realism organized by the Belgian Luxembourg Studies Association (BLASA) at the University of Gent in May 1991"--P. 11. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Writing fiction in the 90s / Malcolm Bradbury -- American realism, American realities / Mark Shechner -- Theoretical palefaces/neo-realistic redskins, or why the ghost of Philip Rahv would cry "uncle!" / Sanford Pinsker -- Surface and depth : postmodernism and neo-realist fiction / Winfried Fluck -- Postmodern-postmortem : death and the death of the novel / Alfred Hornung -- Rabbit is redundant : Updike's end of an American epoch / Stacey Olster -- The nightmare of reality : Gothic fantasies and psychological realism in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Eva Manske -- Towards a native American 'realism' : the amphibious fiction of Louise Erdich / Hans Bak -- Telling a woman's story : fiction as biography and biography as fiction in Mary Gordon's Men and angles and Alison Lurie's The truth about Lorin Jones / Judie Newman -- Women's quest plot in Mary Gordon's work / Aránzazu Usandizaga.
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