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20210716114548.0
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200515s2020 mnua b 001 0 eng d
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a| 9781517909789
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a| PS374.E64
b| W374 2020
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a| Wasserman, Sarah L.,
e| author
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a| The death of things :
b| ephemera and the American novel /
c| Sarah Wasserman
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a| Minneapolis, MN :
b| University of Minnesota Press
c| [2020]
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a| 296 pages :
b| illustrations ;
c| 22 cm
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a| still image
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a| unmediated
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a| Includes bibliographical references and index
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a| Introduction: The Death of Things -- Yesterday's Tomorrowland : E. L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, and the 1939 World's Fair -- Counterhistory, Counterfact, Counterobject : Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, and the Second World War -- Zoned Out : Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Urban Infrastructure -- Timed, Stamped : Thomas Pynchon's Media Systems -- The Disorder of Things : Marilynne Robinson's Transient Women -- Ephemeral gods, Billboard Saints : Don DeLillo's Apparitions -- Coda: The Afterlife of Things: Ephemera in the Digital Age
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a| "Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, The Death of Things delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten"--
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a| American fiction
y| 20th century
x| History and criticism
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a| Philosophy in literature
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a| Printed ephemera
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a| Product obsolescence