Textermination
A Womens, European Literature, Fiction book. How strange. The power of the spirit over the permanence of celluloid. A fantasy, fixed in time yet fleeting. The...
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,...
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- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9780811212168 / 811212165
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How strange. The power of the spirit over the permanence of celluloid. A fantasy, fixed in time yet fleeting. The spirit. He pauses & nods perceptibly. The Spirit is the Reader. What the reader constructs is the Other, & the Other is contained in his flight, the definition of the Other is flight. To fix the Other is to lose him, to let him flee & grow is to keep him. Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination // Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to the power of collective prayer in this our desperate struggle for survival. Some of us have more existence than others, at various times according to fashion. But even this is becoming extremely shadowy & precarious, for we are not read, & when read , we are read badly, we are not lived as we used to be, we are not identified with & fantasized, we are rapidly forgotten. Those of us who have the good fortune to be read by teachers, scholars, & students are not read as we used to...
Anglophiles, readers of great literature, and those that have begun their journey on the path to reading more great literature, I implore you to read Textermination. Far too many books, characters, and authors have been forgotten by readers over the years and end up being covered in dust sitting in the back of used bookstores waiting... - 91-, , , . , - - : http://www.school-essays.info/bruk-ro..., , , . , -, - 91-, , , . , - - : http://www.school-essays.info/bruk-ro..., , , . , -, . This is totally LIT-PORN! That said, if you are a reader, why wouldn't you read this? A highly enjoyable romp. If anybody was watching me as I read this on my porch yesterday, they would've been puzzled by the permanent smile plastered on my face. Yes it's meta- and literary but above all it's FUN! Just make sure you don't stop after...
