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Encyclopaedism and totality in contemporary fiction

Year: 2025

Type: book-review

Abstract: The term encyclopaedic gained traction in literary criticism in the late 1970s and 1980s, as critics sought ways to describe a certain type of unusually long and ambitious prose that, although long...

Source: Textual Practice

DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2025.2506276

Author: Elisa Pesce

Institution: University of Glasgow

Language: English

Topic: Contemporary Literature and Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4410526403

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