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The Last Night of All

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Michael Wood
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This is a brief essay about a long or perhaps interminable subject, about what I am (for the moment) calling the genre of the unfinishable work, as distinct from works that are unfinished or open-ended—the work whose themes and style involve what comes last and then what comes after that, if there is anything after that. I thought at first there might be too few of these works to form a genre. Now I am inclined to think there may be too many, but the shift or increase does give us a contrasting term and may help us consider more closely the possibility that lies between insufficiency and excess.

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Special Topic: Remapping Genre Coordinated by Wai Chee Dimock and Bruce Robbins
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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 5: Special Topic Remapping Genre , October 2007 , pp. 1394 - 1402
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Copyright © 2007 by The Modern Language Association of America

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