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Description for 1998.6
Paperback. This novel about the complicated experience of pursuing a PhD details the curious world of a group stuck between childhood and adulthood, idealism and surrealism, representation and reality. It focuses on three main characters, each writing dissertations on postmodern novelist Ronald Sukenick. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
Fetishists, dreamers, voyeurs, internet porn addicts, granola-heads, drug dealers, dorks, liars, layabouts, workaholics, sex maniacs, TV junkies, compulsives, neurotics, intellectuals, idealists: graduate students, all. In this book about the complicated experience of pursuing a Ph.D., Matthew Roberson details the curious world of a group stuck between childhood and adulthood, idealism and surrealism, representation and reality. 1998.6 focuses on three main characters - in three variations of the same story - writing dissertations on postmodern novelist and cult hero Ronald Sukenick. Each confronts the perverse challenge of studying a writer whose illogical surrealism undercuts the clear discussion necessary in a Ph.D. ... Read more
Fetishists, dreamers, voyeurs, internet porn addicts, granola-heads, drug dealers, dorks, liars, layabouts, workaholics, sex maniacs, TV junkies, compulsives, neurotics, intellectuals, idealists: graduate students, all. In this book about the complicated experience of pursuing a Ph.D., Matthew Roberson details the curious world of a group stuck between childhood and adulthood, idealism and surrealism, representation and reality. 1998.6 focuses on three main characters - in three variations of the same story - writing dissertations on postmodern novelist and cult hero Ronald Sukenick. Each confronts the perverse challenge of studying a writer whose illogical surrealism undercuts the clear discussion necessary in a Ph.D. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661027
SKU
V9781573661027
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Matthew Roberson
MATTHEW ROBERSON is a Brittain Teaching Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in English from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an M.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University. He has won the Milwaukee Fiction Award and worked as Editor-in-Chief for Cream City Review. His book Musing the Mosaic: Collected Essays on Ronald Sukenick is forthcoming from SUNY ... Read more
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