Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo

Author:   Mark C. Taylor
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Volume:   12
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9780231160414


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   07 October 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mark C. Taylor
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780231160414


ISBN 10:   0231160410
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   07 October 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations neXus 1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion: William Gaddis, The Recognitions 2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark 3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves 4. Holy Shit! : Don DeLillo, Underworld 5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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This book exemplifies what an entire area within religious studies -- 'religion and literature' -- should be yet has never quite become: a genuinely interdisciplinary, existentially attuned, and constructively ambitious enterprise engaged with our most timely social and cultural questions. -- Thomas Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara provocative, engaging, significant... -- N. Katherine Hayles Los Angeles Review of Books 6/15/2013 Rewiring the Real is a collection of wide-ranging and incisive conversations about contemporary fiction and useful... primer to Taylor's thought... Taylor is a gifted explainer with a remarkably direct and personable style... College Literature Vol 41, No 2 Spring 2014


This book exemplifies what an entire area within religious studies -- 'religion and literature' -- should be yet has never quite become: a genuinely interdisciplinary, existentially attuned, and constructively ambitious enterprise engaged with our most timely social and cultural questions. -- Thomas Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara provocative, engaging, significant... -- N. Katherine Hayles Los Angeles Review of Books 6/15/2013


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Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His most recent books are Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill; Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy; Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living; After God; Mystic Bones; and Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption.

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