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FDU PRESS
 Scholarly Review
Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmondernism
ISBN# 0886640869

 
Reviewed by: Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa
Names, December 2006
Like other books of literary criticism and theory that have become the most helpful and insightful of their era, Memorious Discourse invites its readers to draw wide-ranging implications. Far from being socially unconcerned, the postmodern fiction Moraru celebrates practices great ethical responsibility, not the least because it shows where represented action really is. Not by coincidence does the age of postmodernism also serve as the age of new personal freedoms and values--for women, for minorities, for everyone. For Moraru, this may well be the ultimate name of postmodernism's game.

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