Dear Incomprehension

Dear Incomprehension
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780817361372
ISBN-13 : 0817361375
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Book Synopsis Dear Incomprehension by : Stéphane Vanderhaeghe

Download or read book Dear Incomprehension written by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear Incomprehension tackles a broad swath of contemporary literature currently labeled "speculative fiction." A blurring of genres that includes science fiction, modern fairy tales, and avant-garde experimental fiction, these works are extremely popular but also derive from highly sophisticated philosophical and aesthetic sensibilities, ones that call into question and uproot the very foundations of stories and storytelling. Because such fictions subvert most conventional narrative devices-plot, recognizable characters, verisimilitude, logic, legibility-they deliberately confound almost any kind of conventional reading and criticism. So, what do you do with a text that cannot be conventionally read or understood? To do such a literature justice, the traditional frameworks of literary criticism fail, and Dear Incomprehension is more of an extended philosophical essay than it is a traditional work of criticism, as oblique and unconventional in its voice, tone, and methods as the texts it illuminates"--


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