Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apple, but much more mysterious. There are the signs of age and stress: an eyelid droops, the gaze is not quite focused. There is the vast dignity: no real head, seen in isolation, could possibly envelop itself in such distances as Velásquez's painted fiction...
...FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (3) 4-The Greek Treasure, Stone (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rossner (8) 7-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (6) 8-Shogun, Clavell (10) 9-Humboldt's Gift, Bellow (7) 10-Nightwork, Shaw...
...history, or cosmology." The "fabulous" stories of romance, on the other hand, meet the imaginative needs of the community in the form of entertainment. And just as the Bible is an epic f the Creator, Romance "brings us closer than any other aspect of literature to a sense of fiction, considered as a whole, as epic of creation, man's vision of his own life as a quest." Romance isn't necessarily just a love story. Sometimes it's an adventure story and some of its common conventions, according to Frye, include stories of miraculous birth, oracular prophecies, foster parents...
...representing their society--as say, British critics might have done with Kipling and Tennyson to support British imperialism at the turn of the century--Somebody surely will. That's when it becomes important for Marxists to be aware of the abuses of romance, which in its latest form--science fiction--still hasn't been completely absorbed by bourgeois values (some of H.G. Wells's novels and Stat Trek are examples of forms of science fiction that have...
...thing to cerebrate; to narrate is quite another. On the evidence of these 16 collected tales, Author Thomas M. Disch, 36, can do both. Previously known as a writer of science fiction, Disch includes only one story-The Planet Arcadia-in the intergalactic mode. The rest adhere to a bizarre present that only the likes of Lewis Carroll or John Collier could produce...