The Dynamics of Literary Transgression in Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew.
The author analyzes the book "Mulligan Stew," by Gilbert Sorrentino and gives his evaluation to this work. He affirms that this book displays a broad and impressive array of fictional devices and techniques that have come to be identified either with postmodernism, or metafiction, or both. He also s...
| Publicado en: | Essays in Literature Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 111 - 131 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Western Illinois University, Department of English & Journalism
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| Sumario: | The author analyzes the book "Mulligan Stew," by Gilbert Sorrentino and gives his evaluation to this work. He affirms that this book displays a broad and impressive array of fictional devices and techniques that have come to be identified either with postmodernism, or metafiction, or both. He also stresses that the book is technically impressive, yet it is not almost too impressive, placing it in severe danger of collapsing into an empty formalism that is all style and no substance. |
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