David (Hrsg.) Shields

Fakes

An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

Buch

In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they've found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories collected in Fakes-including ones by Ron Carlson… Mehr

CHF 24.90

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

V105: Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen

Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Vollmer, Matthew (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-393-34195-9
EAN: 9780393341959
Produktnummer: 12946836
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.6 cm 380 g
Gewicht: 380
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

David Shields, the author of Reality Hunger, is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. Matthew Vollmer is the author of Future Missionaries of America and Inscriptions for Headstones. He is a professor at Virginia Tech.