| Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self Contributor(s): Amato, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 079143401X ISBN-13: 9780791434017 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 810.900 |
| LCCN: 96-47126 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: (0.98 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bookend challenges distinctions between prose and poetry as well as between popular and academic culture, embodying a wide array of poetic techniques to argue that form and structure are themselves essential to artistic and cultural meaning. It critiques the current media environs, a hybrid reality in which the individual encounters his or her public and private selves in the midst of a crisis of values. Each of the five anatomies represents both a personal and a local account of where the author finds himself in social and educational terms, and an attempt is made throughout to situate this individual experience against a global imperative. |