Of course you mean the forthcoming International Authors edition of Tasso's Il mondo creato!
As Borges might suggest, that 400 pages is an Aristotelian figure, while the true magnitude of Tasso's poem is better conceived in Platonic terms, in which case the poem is actually infinite in scope, eternal in breadth, perpetual in depth, and boundless in matters of conception.
Carter Kaplan is the author of The Invisible Tower Trilogy: Echoes, We Reign Secure, and The Sky-Shaped Sarcophagus. His first novel is Tally-Ho, Cornelius!Diogenes is an Aristophanic comedy. Editor of Emanations; IA edition of The Scarlet Letter with Afterword, "A" is for Antinomian: Theology and Politics in The Scarlet Letter; the anthology Fantasy Worlds. Co-translator and editor of Creation of the World by Torquato Tasso. Book on Wittgenstein and literary theory: Critical Synoptics. Articles on “Karel Čapek,” “Menippean Satire” and “Dystopian Literature” in The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Articles on "Herman Melville" and "Michael Butterworth" in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (which has an article about him). A chapter on William Blake and Michael Moorcock appears in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Teaching includes Literature, Philosophy, and post-graduate Medical Research Writing in universities ranging across Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City, and Scotland.
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Just bought this in a remainders bookstore:
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Nice cover art. Haven't seen that edition before.
Are you contemplating publishing a bestiary of your own?
>Are you contemplating publishing a bestiary of your own?
"Publishing"? With whom? Whom whom whom? Hmm, let me think . . .
Presently I'm buried beneath what might as well be an infinite library of babel. No plans for a bestiary, at least for some time.
>No plans for a bestiary
. . . except a 400-page description of the WHOLE of creation :-D
Of course you mean the forthcoming International Authors edition of Tasso's Il mondo creato!
As Borges might suggest, that 400 pages is an Aristotelian figure, while the true magnitude of Tasso's poem is better conceived in Platonic terms, in which case the poem is actually infinite in scope, eternal in breadth, perpetual in depth, and boundless in matters of conception.
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