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Tristram Shandy and the Birth of Postmodernism

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Despite what you may have read elsewhere, most of the experimental techniques of modernist and postmodernist fiction were developed long before the 20th century. We encounter arch meta-narratives in Cervantes and a self- consciously absurdist fragmentation of texts in Rabelais. The main ingredient of the magical realism novel can be found in Apuleius's …

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