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Textermination / a novel by Christine Brooke-Rose.
Van Pelt Library PR6003.R412 T48 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooke-Rose, Christine, 1923-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has New Directions reply card laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0811212300 :
- 0811212165
- OCLC:
- 25874144
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