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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the death of things
- Yesterday's Tomorrowland : E.L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, and the 1939 World's Fair
- Counterhistory, counterfact, counterobject : Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, and the Second World War
- Zoned out : Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and urban Infrastructure
- Time, stamped : Thomas Pynchon's media systems
- The disorder of things : Marilynne Robinson's transient women
- Ephemeral gods, billboard saints : Don DeLillo's apparitions
- Coda. The afterlife of things : ephemera in the digital age.