id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt bv73bz62g33 Gretchen Busl The Poetics of Ultimacy and the (Meta-)World Literature of John Barth and Italo Calvino 2012 .txt text/plain 350 10 28 By rewriting texts like The Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, Faust, Hamlet, The Odyssey, and Orlando Furioso, they take up the idea that a finite number of narrative forms exist, and employ this principle against itself to produce original literature. This type of fiction operates as literature which is itself comparative: one that registers, explores, and comments on the relational position of texts. cache/bv73bz62g33.txt txt/bv73bz62g33.txt