Jip and Zab, twin brothers, discover a mysterious stone which functions like a large computer and which they name Xorandor

Xorandor

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BROOKE-ROSE, Christine

Science Fiction

Avon/Books

A ZBC of Ezra Pound

University of California Press

This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor Brooke-Rose examines in a clear and precise way the essential differences between these types of narrative against the background of realistic fiction. In doing so, she employs many of the methods of modern literary theory from Russian formalism to structuralism, while at the same time bringing to these approaches a sharp critical intuition and sound common sense of her own. The range of texts considered is broad: from Poe and James to Tolkien; from Flann O'Brien to the American postmodernism. This book should prove a source of stimulation to all teachers and students of modern literary theory and genre, as well as those interested in 'fantastic' literature.

A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Faber and Faber

Go when you see the green man walking

Michael, Joseph

Textermination: A Novel

In her latest novel, 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 for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, 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.

Humor & Satire

New Directions

A teacher, who worries that her literary talents are worthless in the contemporary world, becomes unable to separate reality from her fantasies

Amalgamemnon

British & Irish

Carcanet Pr

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