Crackpot Texts. Absurd explorations in modern and postmodern literature.

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ISBN 10: 0952202859 ISBN 13: 9780952202851

Published by Zoilus Press,, London:, 1997

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Soft cover

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204, [4] ads. Pages clean and unmarked. White glossy paperback, 23.4x15.4cms, clean, spine sunned, small knocks to corners, front lower corner creased.

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Crackpot Texts. Absurd explorations in modern and postmodern literature.

Publisher

Zoilus Press,, London:

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0952202859

ISBN 13

9780952202851

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Very Good

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This work is not literature or criticism, but a Hebridean satellite of both, likely to transform the conventional understanding of neither. The author himself declares his intention to "produce a discourse which the reader finds it hard to classify. Is it fiction? Is it literary criticism? If neither, what is it?" In an envoi which heaps confusion upon confusion while ostensibly revealing his multiple sources, he claims kinship with Bernard Sharratt, Umberto Eco and Stanislaw Lem, but refuses to conceal his inferiority to all three: Crackpot Texts is very like Sharratt's The Literary Labyrinth, a mixture of humour and politics, with the politics removed; it is also like that combination of humour and literary theory, Eco's Misreadings, without the literary theory; and it is consciously indebted to Lem's compound of humour and idiocy, Imaginary Magnitude, in all but its failure to amuse.

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