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Theories of Forgetting [electronic resource] / Lance Olsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, Lance, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory in literature.
- Memory--Fiction.
- Memory.
- Genre:
- Experimental fiction.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : FC2, The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Theories of Forgetting
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57366-846-X
- OCLC:
- 873142357
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