Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics

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In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White creates a lucid perspective on what it means to be a writer and a human being in the so-called postmodern moment.

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ISBN-10 1-56478-190-9

ISBN-13 9781564781901

Publication Date Jun 1998

Nb of pages 160

Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.

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Raleigh News & Observer

As we look askance at our world gone awry, what White reminds us is that literature—at its confrontational, unbounded and arty best—remains the most liberating way we have to remake the world. By reinvigorating literature, we can revitalize our sense of possibility.

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In this postmodern world of universal knowingness and boredom, we need someone brave enough, and sharp enough, to raise the good old questions—and some new ones, too. Curtis White is here to do that

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-Mark Crispin Miller author of Boxed In: The Culture of TV

There aren't enough people on the planet who are literate in both contemporary theory and contemporary literature—who know Italo Calvino as intimately as Donna Haraway, and Kathy Acker as well as

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-Michael Berube author of Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics

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