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Donkeys, Spirits, and Imperial Ladies : Enumeration in Eliot Weinberger's Essays.
Eliot Weinberger's essays conspicuously rely on an unusual literary device: enumeration. In close readings of selected essays from Weinberger's work, the author explores the aesthetic effects and functions of this original stylistic strategy, asking how it challenges common ideas about the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Eliot Weinberger's essays conspicuously rely on an unusual literary device: enumeration. In close readings of selected essays from Weinberger's work, the author explores the aesthetic effects and functions of this original stylistic strategy, asking how it challenges common ideas about the genre. What happens to the traditional speaking subject, the 'essayistic I', when all the reader gets is a catalogue of bare facts? What does it mean when an essay becomes a repetitive chant, an excessive litany, or a collection of curious words? What kind of knowledge do essays produce when they enumerate? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3825374815 9783825374815 |