Episode 15: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Part 1

Join us soon for part 2, in which we will be looking at this story through the lens of stylistics, specifically focalisation, modality, and speech presentation.

Read Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius and the extracts used in the episodes here

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