Contemporary Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
Historical Background
It is generally agreed that the postmodern period of world literature begins immediately following the end of World War II and extends at least through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Perhaps this period of the novel’s development is identified most of all with experimentation. Worldwide, postmodern novels have flown in the face of much that preceded them, yet the novel remains an evolving, thriving genre. Testimony to its vitality is to be found in how this somewhat Eurocentric, male-dominated genre of literature...
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