Textermination

In Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/17/1992
ISBN: 9780811212168
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.39w x 0.57d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/1992
Publishers Weekly 09/14/1992