... novel he investigates '(a) reworks in detail one or a few narratives and (b) while doing so, puts forth a critical commentary' (Rewriting xii). As such Moraru distinguishes a particular strand within postmodern fiction, represented by writers such as E.L. Doctorow, Ishmael Reed and Kathy Acker...

... novel he investigates '(a) reworks in detail one or a few narratives and (b) while doing so, puts forth a critical commentary' (Rewriting xii). As such Moraru distinguishes a particular strand within postmodern fiction, represented by writers such as E.L. Doctorow, Ishmael Reed and Kathy Acker...

... a particular strand within postmodern fiction, represented by writers such as E.L. Doctorow, Ishmael Reed and Kathy Acker rather than Jorge Luis Borges or Vladimir Nabokov, claiming that their rewritings are politi- cally motivated rather than merely playful. But the value of Rewriting lies not just...

... is a sweeping, ambitious book in which Benn Michaels takes on everyone and everything from Richard Rorty to Kathy Acker, Judith Butler to Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man to Samuel Huntington, and iden- tity politics to the case for monetary reparations for slave descendants. However, Benn Michaels' main...

... that features writers as central characters. Indeed, Joe Moran in Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America (2000), a book which treads similar ground to Conroy's, chooses to write about John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Kathy Acker, all writers he claims "have dealt at length...

... and dramatist Nanni Balestrini and the novelists John Dos Passos, Elio Vittorini, Kathy Acker, William Gibson, and William S. Burroughs. Nor is Negri’s (2009) recent foray onto the dramatic stage with his Trilogie de la différence (consisting of the plays Essaim: Didactique du militant, L’homme plié...

... mentions attending Zelazny’s memorial service and how that influenced his concept of Dream’s wake, and American Gods is dedicated to Zelazny and Kathy Acker. GAIMAN’S SANDMAN AS MYTHIC ROMANCE 363 ally all the characters of the series plus many members of the DC...

... through the 1980s and 1990s and including works by Thomas Pynchon, Denis Johnson, and Kathy Acker, among others, that insists on a sociality resisting the reduction of life to atomized individuality. This literary strand stands in contrast to the darkly ironic reductio ad absurdum of the eighties...