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Exceptionally complex works of literary fiction, including encyclopedic novels, systems novels, and maximalist novels. Pages in category "Encyclopedic and systems novels" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Kingdom of Characters is the third book authored by Jing Tsu, a professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literature at Yale University. [1] Her previous two books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, also covered Chinese linguistic history.
Category: Novels by building of setting. 1 language. ... Novels set in mansions and country houses (2 C, 36 P) Novels set in monasteries (1 C, 5 P)
Novels that primarily or partially take place in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, an ancient Egyptian period spanning c. 2700 –2200 BC. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. [1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula K. Le ...
In antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally: the different units might be defined independently according to the length of a king's thumb or the size of his foot, the length of stride, the length of arm, or maybe the weight of water in a keg of specific size, perhaps itself defined in hands and knuckles. The unifying ...
Her books are snapped up by the nation’s largest publishing houses, with Hollywood sniffing around for movie rights. This Kansas writer is building quite a ‘Kingdom’: Seven novels in five ...
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended is a work of historical chronology written by Sir Isaac Newton, first published posthumously in 1728. [1] Since then it has been republished.