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Was: Annales Nomadique : A Novel Of Internet /
A post-cyber "Pilgrim's Progress. Was is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel's title figure, the word was, marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the int...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa [Ala.] :
FC2,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | A post-cyber "Pilgrim's Progress. Was is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel's title figure, the word was, marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Like Ariel in flight, Was takes place before you can say 'come' and 'go, '"" slipping away before you can ""breath twice and cry 'so, so."" The nomadic lovers here, as any lovers, attempt to linger in the afterglow of what was, but it slips |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (147 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781573668002 |