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Telling About Society

Paperback • 2007 • English

Telling About Society

By Howard S. Becker

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About the book

One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and '50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, "Telling About Society" explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. The third in...Show more

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9780226041261

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Telling About Society

Format

Paperback

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