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ABC-CLIO The Postmodern Short Story
Book SynopsisAlthough postmodern theorists have paid little attention to the short story per se, much of what they say can be applied to the genre. And many short-story writers have created postmodern modes for their stories to provide structure and meaning. Through a variety of fictional forms and themes, postmTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Farhat Iftekharuddin Fictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional Fiction Playing It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn Abildskov Facts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele Morano Historiografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael Orlofsky Women's Identity in the Postmodern World Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie Cutting The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. Fitz The Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne Stengel Postmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen Weekes Contemporary Men and Their Stories Crippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard Lee Male Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. Lilly Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott Farrin Ardor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond Frontain The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter Donahue Death As Image And Theme In Short Fiction Short Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. Griffin Melancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. Palo Perhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard Lindhom Postmodern Narrative Around The World Multiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine Loflin Beyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan Weiss Postmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold Kaylor Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors
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Little, Brown & Company The Monsters
Book Synopsis"Absorbing . . . Will appeal to all who wish to learn more about the conception of Frankenstein and its enigmatic author." -Publishers Weekly
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Little, Brown & Company The Best Part of Me Children Talk about Their
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Georgian Bloomsbury
Book SynopsisGeorgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994).Trade ReviewReviews of Victorian Bloomsbury 'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury group, showing clearly what has been vague - their beginnings in the Victorian era before 'human characters changed' (as Virginia Woolf said). S.P. Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as literary tradition absorbed by this group.' - Richard Ellman 'Professor Rosenbaum has written a wonderful account of the ideas and people who were the early influences on the Bloomsbury Group... This book will be of interest not only to anyone fascinated by the Bloomsbury Group, but also to students of Woolf or Forster or Keynes or Strachey who need to know the background of these writers'. - Carolyn Heilbrun 'Rosenbaum's main purpose is to trace the ancestry and emergence of Bloomsbury's literary forms. Treating the group as a whole, he aggregates and analyses a body of information on their families and houses, on Cambridge literary and philosophical education, and on their early writings. It is a thorough and useful study.' - Raymond Williams Reviews of Edwardian Bloomsbury 'If you want to deconstruct Bloomsbury, this is not the book for you; but if you want Bloomsbury consolidated, you can't do with it ... Rosenbaum is providing an impressively thorough and reliable map of the group development and achievements.' - Hermione Lee 'What impresses is not only the plethora of texts that Rosenbaum confronts but also his combination of broad perspectives with telling detail... Edwardian Bloomsbury is a significant work, authoritative and original, whose massive scholarship will fertilize discussion for many years to come.' - Frances Spalding 'This is the second volume of a formidable enterprise, and part of a series of publications by the same author that may entitle him to the position as the leading scholar of the Bloomsbury Group.. The greatest contribution that this study makes is in its splendid discussion fo the comparatively unknown writings of Bloomsbury, the short works, mostly essays and reviews, that Bloomsbury wrote in its apprenticeship...(Georgian Bloomsbury) is eagerly awaited.' - Peter StanskyTable of ContentsExplanation of References and Abbreviations Preface Introduction Literary Post Impressionism The Art of Clive Bell's Art The Arctic Summer of E. M. Forster Lytton Strachey's Literary History Georgian Literary Journalism Virginia Woolf's First Novel Leonard Woolf's Last Novel Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hartley The GoBetween
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Huxley Brave New World Brodiequotes Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Priestley An Inspector Calls Brodiequotes Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Making the Novel
Book SynopsisBREAN HAMMOND is Professor of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing, including Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (1997). He is a former President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.SHAUN REGAN is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published articles on Sterne, print culture, and the culture of politeness. He was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Virginia Woolf Interpreting the Modernist Text
Book SynopsisThis volume covers a wide range of editorial confrontations with Virginia Woolf's writings, touching on almost every genre in which she wrote: fiction, diary, letter, biography.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Works Commonly Cited Introduction: Editing and Interpreting the Texts of Virginia Woolf; J.H.Stape & J.M.Haule Editing Virginia Woolf's Diary; A.O.Bell The Editor as Ethicist; J.T.Banks The Writing of A Room of One's Own ; S.P.Rosenbaum 'Women Must Weep': the Serialization of Three Guineas ; N.Black The Texture of the Text: Editing Roger Fry: A Biography ; D.F.Gillespie A Book she Never Made: Editing The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf ; S.Dick Text and Counter Text: Trying to Recover Mrs Dalloway ; M.Beja The Alfa and the Avant-texte : Transcribing the Jacob's Room Manuscript; E.Bishop The Changing Shape(s) of Orlando and the Myth of Authorial Control; J.H. Stape Version and Intention in the Novels of Virginia Woolf; J.M.Haule Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reading Fiction Opening the Text
Book SynopsisPETER CHILDS is Senior Lecturer in English at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Horror
Book SynopsisIs horror an antiestablishment force an argument for social revolution? Is it a liberating expose of human nature and a peek at the dark side of the unconscious? Or is it pure evil, designed to corrupt and deprave? Starting from such questions about the nature of horror, this book is an accessibly written history of the genre.Table of ContentsHating other - religion, nationhood and identity; mad science - Frankenstein and his monsters; children of the night - vampires and the undead; monsters from the id - horror, madness and the mind; forbidden knowledge - textuality, metafiction and books; them! - narratives of pestilence and invasion; hail Satan! - diabolism, the occult and demonic possession; transformations - body horror.
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Random House Publishing Group Running with the Bulls
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Harper Perennial Words Are My Matter Writings on Life and Books
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dust Off the Gold Medal
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Any Person Is the Only Self
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Brill Recreating Ancient History Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period
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WW Norton & Co Corsons Inlet A Book of Poems Norton Critical Editions
Book SynopsisCorson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conceptualizing Metaphors On Charles Peirces
Book SynopsisThe enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality.This book represents an attempt to outline an analytical method based on Charles Peirceâs least explored branch of philosophy, which is his evolutionary cosmology, and his notion that the universe is made of an âeffete mind.â The chief argument conceives of human discourse as a giant metaphor in regard to outside reality. The metaphors arise in our imagination as lightning-fast schemes for acting, speaking, or thinking. To illustrate this, each chapter will present a well-known metaphor and explain how it is unfolded and conceptualized according to the new method for revealing meaning.This original work will interest students and scholars in many fields including semiotics, linguistics and philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface Conceptualizing Metaphors (Introduction) 1. The Theoretical Framework of the Forsaken Ideas 2. The Categories, The Ground and The Silent Effects 3. Unlimited Semiosis and Heteroglossia (C.S. Peirce and M.M. Bakhtin) 4. The Living Mind and the Effete Mind 5. The Iceberg and The Crystal Mind 6. The Missing Notion of Subjectivity in Charles Peirce’s Philosophy 7. The Unpredictable Past 8. The Quiet Discourse (Some Aspects of Representation in C. Peirce's Concept of Consciousness) 9. One-man-tango 10. How Is Meaning Possible? Appendix: Ivan Sarailiev – An Early Bulgarian Contributor to Pragmatism Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond the Arab Disease New Perspectives in
Book SynopsisPresenting bold and original insights, this book examines the policies and diplomacies pursued by Arab and Western governments, while discussing both the political and cultural roles played by the modern Arab World. It explores the various facets of the malaise affecting the Arab world, stressing the urgent call for reform and recovery, as well as the need to address major issues including inter-Arab affairs, relations with a hegemonic USA, and peace with Israel.In addition, the book provides new perspectives on a range of topics including Arab and Muslim diplomacy, literature, and culture; often as these interact with Western models and paradigms in an increasingly interconnected but challenging world. Employing a combination of disciplines and discourses, the book aids learners and policy-makers in better understanding the Arab worldâs successes and failures in its problematic relations with the West and modernity. Table of Contents1. The Arab Disease: Bittersweet Pills to Swallow? 2. Islamic Diplomacy: The Need for A New Vision: A Conceptual Approach 3. Modern Arabic Literature: The West as a Bridge to Freedom: A Bird’s Eye View 1384 4. George Bernard Shaw on Muhammad, Egypt and Palestine 5. The One and the Many: The Sufi Path to Social Responsibility: From Anecdote to Action? 6. Literature and Peacemaking: A Role Explored
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Taylor & Francis Ltd I Love to You
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitan Geographies
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.Trade Review"Lively, smart, compelling, this book reclaims and redefines cosmopolitanism in a wide range of periods and places. Its first-rate essays will be of keen interest to anyone grappling with questions of transnational and intercultural experience." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English"Cosmopolitan Geographies suggests that the geographical diversity as well as the long history of 'cosmopolitanism' is absolutely vital for imagining a non-ethnocentric international humanism today. The essays in this important volume bring together a rich variety of historical contexts, literary practices, and political imperatives in order to provoke us to rethink the relationship between national cultures and internationalism, and between cultural difference and universalism." -- Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Illinois and author of Colonialism/PostcolonialismTable of ContentsIntroduction, Vinay Dharwadker; Chapter 1 The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 2 “The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun”, Robert R. Edwards; Chapter 3 The Cartographic Imagination, David Harvey; Chapter 4 Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, Universalism and Pathos, Sharon Marcus; Chapter 5 Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory, Pheng Cheah; Chapter 6 Theater and Cosmopolitanism, Una Chaudhuri; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitan Reading, K. Anthony Appiah;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Culture of Capital Property Cities and Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Figures of Finance Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophy Through Science Fiction
Book SynopsisPhilosophy Through Science Fiction offers a fun, challenging, and accessible way in to the issues of philosophy through the genre of science fiction. Tackling problems such as the possibility of time travel, or what makes someone the same person over time, the authors take a four-pronged approach to each issue, providing a clear and concise introduction to each subject a science fiction story that exemplifies a feature of the philosophical discussion historical and contemporary philosophical texts that investigate the issue with rigor, and glossary, plot profiles of pertinent science fiction stories and films, and questions for further reflection.Philosophy Through Science Fiction includes stories from contemporary science fictioTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Boxes Chapter 0: What is Philosophy? Chapter 1: Philosophical Method and Philosophical Disagreement Chapter 2: Knowledge and Skepticism Chapter 3: Religion and Belief in God Chapter 4: Spacetime and Time Travel Chapter 5: Mind Chapter 6: Personal Identity Chapter 7: Free Will Glossary Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Holocaust Novel Genres in Context
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler''s List, Sophie''s Choice, White Noise, and Time''s Arrow.Trade Review"Efraim Sicher's The Holocaust Novel is a most comprehensive, intelligent, and empathetic study of the literature representing the murder of the six million. As such it is also a history of the cultural reception of the Holocaust over six decades and innumerable national literary traditions. Readable and accessible, it is also an extremely useful handbook of "Holocaust" culture." -- Sander L. Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford UniversityTable of Contents1. About the Holocaust Novel 2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..." 3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable 4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts 5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness 6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Protest and the Body in Melville Dos Passos and
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors'' literary output as an effort to work through the political meanings associated with the body, examining how they negotiate identities of class, gender, race, sexuality, and age.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd Problems of the Body Body Politics Anxious Readings Embodied Texts and Textualized Bodies Fathers, Sons, Tensions Chapter Three: Producing Remembrance: John Dos Passos's Body in the Text Anatomy and a Mid-Life Crisis Vagabardage The (Un-)American Body Doing the People in Indifferent Voice Remembering the Body of an American A Tramp or a Middle-Class Intellectual-It's as Bad Either Way Chapter Four: How It Feels to Be Not-So-Young, Gifted, and Black: Passing and De change uh Life in Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston's Novel of Passing De Change uh Life Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The Family in English Childrens Literature
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Taylor & Francis Dickenss Secular Gospel
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Penguin Publishing Group Harry Potters Bookshelf The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures
Book SynopsisHarry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but in its connection to the greater world of classic literature. Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures explores the literary landscape of themes and genres J.K. Rowling artfully wove throughout her novels-and the influential authors and stories that inspired her. From Jane Austen's Emma and Charles Dickens's class struggles, through the gothic romances of Dracula and Frankenstein and the detective mysteries of Dorothy L. Sayers, to the dramatic alchemy of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and William Shakespeare, Rowling cast a powerful spell with the great books of English literature that transform
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Time Warner Trade Publishing This Is a Book
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Little, Brown & Company The Reading Promise
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Faber & Faber Keepers of the Flame
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Faber & Faber The Accents of Persuasion
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Limberlost Press Gone in October
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Tough Poets Press Those Drinking Days
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Penguin Putnam Inc Great Goddesses Life Lessons from Myths and
Book SynopsisBestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words.With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (Fierce Fairytales, Wild Embers) uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and share the stories of the mothers, warriors, creators, survivors, and destroyers who shook the world. In pieces that burn with empathy and admiration for these women, Gill unearths the power and glory of the very foundations of mythology and culture that have been too-often ignored or pushed aside. Complete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Gill's poetry and stories weave old and forgotten tales of might and love into an empowering collection for the modern woman.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Ex Libris
Book SynopsisSend and receive gorgeous literary postcards featuring book recommendations from Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani and stunning original cover art from illustrator Dana Tanamachi These exquisite postcards from renowned literary critic Michiko Kakutani's book Ex Libris, a collection of her must-read books, are the perfect way to show someone you’re thinking of them, share a book recommendation, or add a pop of literary flair to your walls. Illustrated by Dana Tanamachi, these postcards featuring covers of literary classics, non-fiction favorites, and beloved novels like The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, and Harry Potter will be irresistible to any bibliophile.The boxed set contains fifty postcards offering two each of twenty-five cover interpretations of literary classics featured in Ex Libris. The other side includes a thoughtful quote from Kakutani’s essay about the book with plen
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The World the Text and the Critic
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Random House USA Inc Water Water
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Hogarth On Morrison
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iUniverse What You Need To Read To Know Just About Everything The 25 best books for a self education and why
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iUniverse Narcissism in High Fidelity
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iUniverse 761 Aubert Avenue My Greek American Sanctuary
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iUniverse Waist Deep in Broom Sedge A Collection of Essays Short Stories and Poems
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Africa World Books Pty Ltd WAR TALK AT PEACE TALKS PEACE UNDER DURESS IN SOUTH SUDAN
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Paul Baweja A Critique of Miltons Paradise Lost and Regained
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Random House USA Inc The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Book SynopsisStein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
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Random House USA Inc Invitation to a Beheading
Book SynopsisLike Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for gnostical turpitude, an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.
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