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Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works

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Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works. / Grass, Delphine Brigitte.
In: The Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1, 01.04.2019, p. 53–69.

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Grass, DB 2019, 'Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works', The Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 53–69. https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2019.5

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Grass, D. B. (2019). Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works. The Australian Journal of French Studies, 56(1), 53–69. https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2019.5

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Grass DB. Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works. The Australian Journal of French Studies. 2019 Apr 1;56(1):53–69. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2019.5

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Grass, Delphine Brigitte. / Ghosts in the Text : Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works. In: The Australian Journal of French Studies. 2019 ; Vol. 56, No. 1. pp. 53–69.

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