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The death of things : ephemera and the American novel /
A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature--and its relevance to the twenty-first century. "Nothing ever really disappears from the internet" has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera--items that were designed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Death of Things
- Chapter 1. Yesterday's Tomorrowland: E.L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, and the 1939 World's Fair
- Chapter 2. Counterhistory, Counterfact, Counterobject: Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, and the Second World War
- Chapter 3. Zoned Out: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Urban Infrastructure
- Chapter 4. Time, Stamped: Thomas Pynchon's Media Systems
- Chapter 5. The Disorder of Things: Marilynne Robinson's Transient Women
- Chapter 6. Ephemeral Gods, Billboard Saints: Don DeLillo's Apparitions
- Coda: The Afterlife of Things: Ephemera in the Digital Age
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author