The Work of Literature and the Unworking of Community or Writing in Eltit's Lumperica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3873965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Jenckes (Reed College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-80 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CR The New Centennial Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-687X • E-ISSN: 1539-6630 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ncr.2003.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W2057452122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
THE TRUTH THAT WE LIVE IN URGENT TIMES HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR AS LONG as anyone can remember. Under such circumstances, sitting back and reading a book, a work of literature, might seem to be ultimately apolitical, dismissive of the world and its very immediate problems—poverty, war, oppression. It would be like the figure of Borges at the end of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," when the world is being taken over by a particularly nefarious kind of idealism, and the narrator describes himself as sitting quietly in a suburban hotel, attempting to finish a translation of Browne's "Urne-Buriall." 1
Sociology · Engineering · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Mechanical Engineering
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |