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The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
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In this paper, the authors present an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing.Abstract:
This nonfiction work is what Barth callls "an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing". Barth speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future. He looks back too upon historical fiction and fictitous history.read more
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
TL;DR: In this article, Stewart explores the life and work of the writer Wallace Stegner and his intellectual efforts to create, clarify, and defend the contours of a "geography of hope" in the American West.
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Multiplication des récits et stéréométrie littéraire : d’Italo Calvino aux épifictions contemporaines
TL;DR: The notion of multiplication of recits was introduced by Baroni and Ricoeur as mentioned in this paper, who explored the mutations that connait cet agencement de recits percu comme traditionnel and theorise en France dans les annees 1960 par Gerard Genette et Tzvetan Todorov.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
TL;DR: The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism as mentioned in this paper surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama, and it deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century.
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Introduction: Posthumanist subjectivities, or, coming after the subject …
Ivan Callus,Stefan Herbrechter +1 more
TL;DR: Posthumanism is now well installed within the humanities and the social sciences as a critical discourse (see Wolfe, 2010) influenced by the wider technological condition (see Scharff and Dusek, 2003), the technological unconscious and non-conscious (see Thrift, 2004; Hayles, 2006) and by the academy growing increasingly inured to'switching codes' of thought (see Bartscherer and Coover, 2011) as mentioned in this paper.