Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Living by Fiction Living by Fiction Annie Dillard Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dilla… OL14857916W
k-punk k-punk Mark Fisher A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blo… OL20697565W
Fiction refracts science Fiction refracts science Allen Thiher "Examines the relationship between science and the fiction developed by modernists, including Musil, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. Looks at Pascalian and Newtonian cosmology, Darwinism, epistemology, rel… OL2347496W
Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction Edward Engelberg "In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has co… OL4637329W
Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Patrick Hanan "It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of th… OL4981788W