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- Author: Strother B Purdy
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN-10: 0822984598
- ISBN-13: 9780822984597
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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In this imaginative and provocative book, Purdy draws upon the work of a such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Günter Grass, Samuel Becket, and Eugene Ionesco to suggest ways in which novelists explore the unknown. His ingenious consideration of Henry James in conjunction with these novelists, as well as with science fiction and detective fiction writers and with mid-century scientific discoveries and advances-black holes, hydrogen bombs, space travel-offers rich, new insights into James's work and into the twentieth-century view of humanity's place in the world.
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- Author: Strother B Purdy
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN-10: 0822984598
- ISBN-13: 9780822984597
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
In this imaginative and provocative book, Purdy draws upon the work of a such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Günter Grass, Samuel Becket, and Eugene Ionesco to suggest ways in which novelists explore the unknown. His ingenious consideration of Henry James in conjunction with these novelists, as well as with science fiction and detective fiction writers and with mid-century scientific discoveries and advances-black holes, hydrogen bombs, space travel-offers rich, new insights into James's work and into the twentieth-century view of humanity's place in the world.
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