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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1170 Collections and/or Records:

Training / Depew, Wally., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-53154-74306
Scope and Contents

This is a short story of a train ride through a storm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction / Montgomery, Lee, editor ; Hussman, Mary, editor ; Hamilton, David, editor ; Gass W ; Acker K ; Federman R ; Sukenick R., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27663-28746
Scope and Contents

William Gass contributes an introduction to the collection titled "Anywhere But Kansas" in which he describes the innovative fiction texts as "exploratory." He states that "explorational fiction records an often painful and disappointing journey, possibly of discovery, possibly of empty sailing: yet never toward what may lie out of sight in the self, since that is what improvisation discloses, but of what lies still unappreciated in the landscape of literature - implications unperceived, conclusions undrawn, directions everyone has failed to follow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Travelog: Guidebook & Map, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-31288-32761
Scope and Contents

The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Travelog: Guidebook & Map / Ratajcak, Donna ; Hartland, Jessie., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-03676-3741
Scope and Contents

The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

True to Type / Crombie, John., 1989

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Identifier: CC-46389-49114
Scope and Contents

This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Turistou proti sve vuli / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Teige K., 1946

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Identifier: CC-31848-33368
Scope and Contents

This story deals with Hoffmeister's escape from Prague after the Nazi invasion. It then recounts his experiences in the American army and finally his return to Prague after the end of WWII. The cover was designed by Karel Teige after a drawing in the book by Hoffmeister. The illustrations in the book are mainly cartoon-like line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946

Turvey: A Picaresque Novel, 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-21485-21896
Scope and Contents

This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958