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1 day ago · Postmodern novels went further, breaking linear narratives and embracing fragmented storylines. Writers such as Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo emphasized narrative multiplicity, challenging traditional storytelling conventions. These works often include metafictional elements, blurring the line between fiction and reality. The Role of Technology
4 days ago · Thomas Pynchon, a seminal practitioner of the form, drew in his work on modernist fixtures such as temporal distortion, unreliable narrators, and internal monologue and coupled them with distinctly postmodern techniques such as metafiction, ideogrammatic characterization, unrealistic names (Oedipa Maas, Benny Profane, etc.), plot elements and ...
4 days ago · Joyce enrolled at University College in 1898 to study English, French and Italian. While there, he was exposed to the scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas, which had a strong influence on his thought for the rest of his life. He participated in many of Dublin's theatrical and literary circles.
3 days ago · The Muffin House links the story of a Chelsea townhouse back to one of America's most famous breakfast snacks, Thomas' English Muffin.
4 days ago · Kurt Vonnegut ( / ˈvɒnəɡət / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] . He published 14 novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further collections have been published since his death.
2 days ago · Economics is just fancy equations and — in Thomas Piketty’s words — a “childish passion for mathematics.” Are such critiques fair?... more »
5 days ago · Thomas Hooker was a prominent British American colonial clergyman known as “the father of Connecticut.” Seeking independence from other Puritan sects in Massachusetts, Thomas Hooker and his followers established one of the first major colonies in Hartford, Connecticut.
