
Inventions of a Present
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This sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politics of North American literature to the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the Soviet Union and beyond. This is a voyage traversing the globe, discovering a common kinship between each literary destination in late capitalism itself.
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- Intro
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Allegories of the Hunter
- 2. Limits of the Gringo Novel
- 3. Form-Problems in Henry James
- 4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick
- 5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire
- 6. Flashes of World War II
- 7. Germany's Double Plots
- 8. An Eastern Waiting Room
- 9. Immortal Stalingrad
- 10. The USSR that Wasn't
- 11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan
- 12. History as a Family Novel
- 13. The Religions of Dystopia
- 14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization
- 15. The Novel and the Supermarket
- 16. Temporalities of the Sea
- 17. A Businessman in Love
- 18. The Failure of Success
- 19. Days of the Messiah
- Notes
- Index
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