John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine, fantastical tales that were at once bawdy and philosophical, placing him on ...
Such characterizations, not only reduce the feature wealth of both cyberpunk and postmodernism, but also dilute cyberpunk SF's normal specificity (and thus its specific novelty and effects) as a ...
The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural studies; studies of affect (particularly anger and empathy) in late capitalism; postmodern literature and ...
Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters ...