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Is the Leonard-Wallace link just another example of Mr. Eugenides playing with fashionable ideas about reality and fictionality?
Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011
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However, not because it imitates reality, but becuase it exposes the fictionality of reality.
January 2010 2010
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However, not because it imitates reality, but becuase it exposes the fictionality of reality.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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However, not because it imitates reality, but becuase it exposes the fictionality of reality.
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Exploiting the fictionality of what is real is a seam of gold that literature will continue to mine in the next few years, I think.
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And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them.
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson Justine Jordan 2010
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Every reader of a novel is borrowing, if not stealing, someone else's experience; and behind the pleasure of that borrowing there will hover, if we let it, a worry not so much about the fictionality of our lives as of their entrapment in déjà vu.
Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010
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Every reader of a novel is borrowing, if not stealing, someone else's experience; and behind the pleasure of that borrowing there will hover, if we let it, a worry not so much about the fictionality of our lives as of their entrapment in déjà vu.
Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010
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To find out what those terms are I reversed the normal way of looking at SF, sort of like a Magic Eye picture, so that science-fictionality would be my context, and the historical-contextual forces would be constructed by it.
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To find out what those terms are I reversed the normal way of looking at SF, sort of like a Magic Eye picture, so that science-fictionality would be my context, and the historical-contextual forces would be constructed by it.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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