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The Anthology of Babel
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Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between scholarship and creative writing, The Anthology of Babel inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge-Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9-12
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 13-14
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  1. Introduction: Labyrinths of Imagined Literature
  2. Ed Simon
  3. pp. 15-26
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  1. 1. The Body-Loving Philosophers
  2. Stephen David Engel
  3. pp. 27-48
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  1. 2. Encounters with the Unknown and Manifestations of Fear: Discerning the Purpose of the Great Darkness Text
  2. Seth Ligo
  3. pp. 49-72
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  1. 3. The Romance of the Minotaur Reconsidered
  2. Katherine McLoone
  3. pp. 73-90
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  1. 4. "The Very Globe Came Undone": Ontological Negation in Enoch Campion's The Tragedy of Dracule
  2. Ed Simon
  3. pp. 91-100
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  1. 5. "All My Heroines Must Like Him": Circumscribing the Spouse in Jane Austen's Plan of a Husband
  2. Tom Zille
  3. pp. 101-118
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  1. 6. Linus Withold and the Birth of the Rhizomatic Text
  2. Eric D. Lehman
  3. pp. 119-138
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  1. 7. Eighth Draft of "First-Order Variables & Repression: Oedipal Relations in 'The Sandwich' by Rubiard Whimp" by James Lichtenstein
  2. Austin Sarfarn
  3. pp. 139-156
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  1. 8. Under Imaginary Skies: Scholarly Variations on The Rainberg Variations
  2. Reed Johnson
  3. pp. 157-172
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  1. 9. Pedro Somar, traductor de Ramned, autor del Quijote
  2. David Ben-Merre & Raul Neira
  3. pp. 173-196
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  1. 10. El fin del mundo: Uncharted Territory of Ernest Hemingway's Fiction
  2. Maria-Josee Mendez
  3. pp. 197-214
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  1. 11. The Unfinished and Lost Texts of Richard A. Conlan: An Examination of an Obsession, by Mark Conlan, Ph.D.
  2. Introduced and Annotated by James Speese, Ph.D
  3. pp. 215-234
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  1. 12. Stirring the Sentient Dust: Marie-Rose Souci's The Grey Moth
  2. Claire Daigle
  3. pp. 235-250
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  1. 13. Traduttore, Traditore: Authorial Inconsistencies in the Works of Redondo Panza
  2. Julia Coursey
  3. pp. 251-260
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  1. 14. The Purists: Cooperative Fundamentalism and Aesthetic Dogmatics
  2. Matthew Newcomb
  3. pp. 261-278
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  1. 15. From Paratext to Text, Scholar to Ragpicker: Inverted Criticism and the "Heidi B. Morton Papers and Library"
  2. Ryan Marnane
  3. pp. 279-304
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  1. 16. "What Else Was There To Do?": Fat Futurity and the Limits of Narrative Imagination in Desolation
  2. Em K. Falk
  3. pp. 305-322
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  1. 17. "All My Life My Writing Is": The Auto-Bio-Graph of Smalloysius F.: Being Told by Itself
  2. Stephen Hock
  3. pp. 323-344
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  1. 18. The Gravity of the Situation
  2. Bruce Krajewski
  3. pp. 345-364
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  1. 19. Darkness Made Visible: Eamonn Peters on Imagined Literature
  2. Ed Simon
  3. pp. 365-398
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