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Like the art, Connolly's life remains a tremendous literary object lesson.
Another friend came up with her own acronym for it: "ULO – Unidentified Literary Object".
African fiction deserves readers who see its value as a literary object versus readers who are drawn to it because of some imagined anthropological value.
Gibbons's book was such a wickedly brilliant skit it became that rare literary object; a parody that remained standing once the genre it mocked had collapsed.
Is Bowles's fascination with the subject (and our pleasure in the literary object) a higher form of camel-udder-box collecting?
In his letters he returns again and again to the need for attention to the actual literary object rather than the imagined author.
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We read plays in addition to seeing them realised, and can judge them as literary objects as well as blueprints for action.
The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value".].
Flynn has previously proved her literary finesse (Sharp Objects, Dark Places) for crafting multi-layered characters that speak to the uglier sides of human nature.
Fictional objects may then be said to be theoretical objects of literary criticism as much as electrons are theoretical objects of physics.
Barthelme countered that a "mysterious shift... takes place as soon as one says that art is not about something but is something," when the literary text "becomes an object in the world rather than a commentary upon the world".
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