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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1 Subjects and Objects; 1.1 Objective Enumeration; The Showcase Effect; Hyper-Description; The Return of the I; The Impersonal Essay; 1.2 Alien Enumeration; Celebrations of Disorder; The Alien Essay; Horror Lists; Solidification and Dissolution; 2 Accumulation and Reduction; 2.1 Abundance; Astonishing Enumeration; The Kaleidoscopic Essay; Cultural Enrichment; The Universal Essay; 2.2 Overabundance; Unimaginable Wealth, Inconceivable Poverty; Consumption and Recycling; Enumerations of Mass Destruction; Accelerating the Essay; 2.3 Reduction; The Authority of Selection.
- Capsule EnumerationSameness; The Reductive Essay; 3 The Past; 3.1 History as a List; Memorials and Monuments; Factuality and Point of View; Transformations of Narrative; A Poetic Archeology; 3.2 Enumeration and Rewriting; Radiant Minimal Elements; One Form for All; Verifiability and Imagination; The Montage Essay; Conclusion; Works Cited; Acknowledgements.