
Facing Texts
Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics
Heide Ziegler(Editor)
Duke University Press
Published on 7. March 1988
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-8223-0801-0 (ISBN)
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Description
This selection of fiction by many of America's best writers, each coupled with a distinguished critic's response, is designed to defy the chronological secondariness of critical interpretation. During the creation of this book the majority of the contributions, chosen by the writers themselves, were as yet unpublished, providing an unmediated encounter between author and critic. Every reader extends what editors, authors, and critics have begun by adding to the imaginary space in which all texts may be woven together. This process serves as metaphor for the changing nature of any latter-day encounter with one's own literary tradition. The interfacing of texts not only illuminates the fiction, and the relationship of fiction to critics, but also informs our conceptions of text, criticism, and fiction itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-0801-0 (9780822308010)
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02/1988
Duke University Press
€34.00
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