The cruft of fiction: mega-novels and the science of paying attention
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Lincoln ; London
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2017
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| Beschreibung: | vii, 303 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780803299627 |
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Information and
Attention in the Mega-Novel i
1. The Dictionary 30
2. The Encyclopedia 63
3. Life-Writing 93
4. The Menippean Satire 122
5. Episodic Narrative 154
6. The Epic and the Allegory 187
Conclusion: The Fate of the Mega-Novel
Source Acknowledgments 239
Notes 241
Bibliography 273
Index 297
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What is the strange appeal of big books?
The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes
with encyclopedic scope, has attracted
wildly varied responses, from fanatical
devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking
at intimidating mega-novel masterpieces
from The JXtukijiij of^Æme to 2.6óó~,
David Letzler explores reader responses
to all the seemingly random, irrelevant,
pointless, and derailing elements that com-
prise thesemega-novels, elements that he
labels “cruft” after the computer science
term for junk code. In The Cruft
Letzler suggests that these books are useful
tools to help us understand the relation-
ship between reading and attention.
While mega-novel text is often intricately
meaningful or experimental, sometimes
it is just excessive and pointless. On the
other hand, mega-novels also contain text
that, though appearing to be cruft, turns
out to be quite important. Letzler posits
that this cruft requires readers to develop a
sophisticated method of atte rational modu-
lation, allowing one to subtly distinguish
between text requiring focused attention
and text that must be skimmed or even
skipped to avoid processing failures. The
Cruft of Fictionshows how the attentional
maturation prompted by reading mega-
novels can help manage the information
overload that increasingly characterizes
contemporary life.
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