The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel.
An American teacher of literature and poetry living in Montréal, Curtis Brown, recovers Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) as a 'virus novel', venturing an integrated response to two literary questions occasioned by the recent pandemic: What might the contemporary 'Covid novel' look like?...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 311 - 342 |
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