Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs. Pupil's Book. Учебник (+ Audio CD)

Nonfictional texts may be embedded in the fiction with apparent haphazardness, like the extracts from histories and memoirs in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, or may take the form of disruptive direct address, as when, in the middle of Donald Barthelme's Snow White, the reader encounters a questionnaire that begins, "1. Do you like the story so far? Yes () No ()." Ostensible fictions may carry their own commentaries: for example, Delany's novels have long appendixes, which occupy up to a third of the pages in the book and which link elements of the story to issues in anthropological and linguistic theory. Postmodern novels also tend to violate conventions of decorum in their use of allusion and documentation. Mythic and literary allusions occur in deflating contexts (Slothrop in Gravity's Rainbow compares himself with the questing hero Tannhauser but promptly appends the epithet "the Singing Nincompoop"; John Henry Waugh in The Universal Baseball Association initiates a new covenant by vomiting a -704- rainbow of partially digested pizza over his beer-flooded game) or are dragged in with hyperbolic gratuitousness (one of the dwarfs in Snow White smokes a cigar "that stretches from Mont St ...»