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Theories of Forgetting
Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age--right from its use of two back covers (one ""upside down"" and one ""right...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age--right from its use of two back covers (one ""upside down"" and one ""right-side up"") that allow the reader to choose which of the novel's two narratives to privilege. Theories of Forgetting is a narrative in three parts. The first is the story of Alana, a filmmaker struggling to complete a short documentary about Robert Smithson's famous earthwork, The Spiral Jetty, located |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781573668460 |