Reality Hunger
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Reality Hunger is a genre-blurring, manifesto-style book by David Shields that challenges traditional notions of authorship, originality, and the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reality Hunger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5996931 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reality Hunger Context triple: [David Shields, notableWork, Reality Hunger]
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A.
The Pains of Sleep
The Pains of Sleep is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that vividly explores themes of guilt, terror, and psychological torment experienced in dreams.
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B.
Joe Gould’s Teeth
Joe Gould’s Teeth is a nonfiction book by historian Jill Lepore that investigates the mysterious life and lost writings of eccentric New York bohemian Joe Gould.
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C.
The Indifferent
"The Indifferent" is a small, elegant painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, depicting a solitary, gracefully posed figure that exemplifies his delicate brushwork and subtle, introspective mood.
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D.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
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E.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reality Hunger Target entity description: Reality Hunger is a genre-blurring, manifesto-style book by David Shields that challenges traditional notions of authorship, originality, and the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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A.
The Pains of Sleep
The Pains of Sleep is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that vividly explores themes of guilt, terror, and psychological torment experienced in dreams.
-
B.
Joe Gould’s Teeth
Joe Gould’s Teeth is a nonfiction book by historian Jill Lepore that investigates the mysterious life and lost writings of eccentric New York bohemian Joe Gould.
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C.
The Indifferent
"The Indifferent" is a small, elegant painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, depicting a solitary, gracefully posed figure that exemplifies his delicate brushwork and subtle, introspective mood.
-
D.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
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E.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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manifesto ⓘ |
| author |
David Shields
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linked to:
David Shields (writer)
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| controversy | use of unattributed quotations in early editions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception |
polarizing
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widely discussed in literary circles ⓘ |
| feature | endnotes identifying sources of quotations ⓘ |
| form | collage ⓘ |
| genre |
essay collection
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literary criticism ⓘ manifesto-style work ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasPart | numbered sections labeled A to Z ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
collage art
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postmodern theory ⓘ sampling culture ⓘ |
| ISBN | 9780307378078 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
e-book
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print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
fragmentary
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genre-blurring ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
advocacy of appropriation in art
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challenge to traditional notions of authorship ⓘ challenge to traditional notions of originality ⓘ defense of sampling and remixing ⓘ erasure of boundaries between fiction and nonfiction ⓘ |
| pageCount | 240 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| structure | numbered fragments ⓘ |
| subject |
authorship
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essay ⓘ fiction–nonfiction boundary ⓘ literary collage ⓘ memoir ⓘ originality ⓘ plagiarism ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| subtitle | A Manifesto ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
literary critics
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readers of experimental nonfiction ⓘ writers ⓘ |
| theme |
cultural saturation of media
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ethics of borrowing texts ⓘ instability of narrative truth ⓘ reality in contemporary art ⓘ |
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Subject: Reality Hunger Description of subject: Reality Hunger is a genre-blurring, manifesto-style book by David Shields that challenges traditional notions of authorship, originality, and the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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subject linked to:
David Shields (writer)