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ocn984342727 |
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OCoLC |
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20240726105040.0 |
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170426s2017 nbu ob s001 0 eng d |
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NT |
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eng |
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rda |
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pn |
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NT |
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EBLCP |
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P@U |
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MERUC |
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IDEBK |
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JSTOR |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781496201645 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781496201669 |
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| 050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PN3352 |
| Item number |
.C784 2017 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
MAIN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Letzler, David, |
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Author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The cruft of fiction : |
| Remainder of title |
mega-novels and the science of paying attention / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
David Letzler. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Lincoln : |
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University of Nebraska Press, |
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(c)2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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computer |
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c |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS |
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data file |
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rda |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Frontiers of narrative |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from fanatical devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking at intimidating mega-novel masterpieces from The Making of Americans to 2666, David Letzler explores reader responses to all the seemingly random, irrelevant, pointless, and derailing elements that comprise these mega-novels, elements that he labels "cruft" after the computer science term for junk code. Letzler suggests that these books are useful tools to help us understand the relationship between reading and attention. While mega-novel text is often intricately meaningful or experimental, sometimes it is just excessive and pointless. On the other hand, mega-novels also contain text that, though appearing to be cruft, turns out to be quite important. Letzler posits that this cruft requires readers to develop a sophisticated method of attentional modulation, allowing one to subtly distinguish between text requiring focused attention and text that must be skimmed or even skipped to avoid processing failures. "The Cruft of Fiction" shows how the attentional maturation prompted by reading mega-novels can help manage the information overload that increasingly characterizes contemporary life. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Information and Attention in the Mega- Novel; 1. The Dictionary; 2. The Encyclopedia; 3. Life- Writing; 4. The Menippean Satire; 5. Episodic Narrative; 6. The Epic and the Allegory; Conclusion: The Fate of the Mega-Novel; Source Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 530 ## - COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: |
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| COPYRIGHT INFORMATION |
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="b">b</a> |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Fiction |
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Psychological aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Reading, Psychology of. |
| 655 #1 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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Electronic Books. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1508337&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1508337&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518</a> |
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Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) |
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EBSCO |
| Classification part |
PN. |
| PUBLICATION YEAR |
2017 |
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ONLINE |
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NFIC |
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92 |
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| 902 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT B, LDB (RLIN) |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |