Encyclopedic novel
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encyclopedic-novel-209-4031072
title:
Encyclopedic novel
text:
The encyclopedic novel is a genre of complex literary fiction which incorporates elements across a wide range of scientific, academic, and literary subjects. The concept was popularised by Edward Mendelson in criticism of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, defined as an encyclopedia-like attempt to "render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ideological perspectives from which that culture shapes and interprets its knowledge". In more general te
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Novel that is said to describe or define an entire culture
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_novel
date created:
2014-05-03T23:03:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T17:42:04Z
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