Debbie: An Epic
Lisa Robertson has applied her rhetorical skills to the epic, and what emerges is a spectacular, subversive vision of the world through female eyes. This is an act of sheer writerly bravado, taking and tweaking the form, enlarging the world between the covers of a book. The language is lush, the concept superactivated, growing over the page at an astonishing clip.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0921586612
ISBN13:9780921586616
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:New Star Books
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.34 lbs.
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Dazzling
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Lisa Robertson's Debbie: An Epic is a wonderfully original non-linear lyric poem. Although it does not produce a narrative or present consistent characters, it takes in fundamental ideas--women's position in society, contemporary attitudes toward classical authors, distrust of narrative--and spins them into a beautiful, ever-shifting lyric fabric. Although you won't emerge with a paraphrasable story in your head, you undoubtedly will have extraordinary lines and phrases and images occupying your mind for days.The layout of the book itself is stunning, taking advantage of different font sizes and shades, white space, and margins--it's a feat of book design.
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