Studies In Logic - Charles Sanders Pierce hammered out the ethical and practical forms of pragmatism as a definition of meaning in sensu strictu in this 1883 collection of essays that also extended the title subject to mathematics via pragmatism.[1]
Country Full of Swedes -> "Possibly Erskine Caldwell’s best known story, the narrator Stan describes the devastation on Jim Frost’s farm that occurs when hard times drive workers from the sawmill towns of Maine into the countryside."
Elvis Shrugged - This 1991 parody, with art by Dave Webber, imagines a future in which only one record company exists. Chased by the floating head of Col. Parker, artists led by (*) Madonna break with the stifling monopoly and join forces with Elvis, who faked his own death, and others in exile to innovate. The plot and dialogue are hilariously true to the original, featuring the catch-question “"Is Elvis alive?”" For 10 points -- For 10 points--name this Revolutionary Comics spoof of Ayn Rand’'s best-known novel.
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the Nausea - “Something has happened to me, I can’t doubt it anymore. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident.” The last sentence is an entry of Antoine Roquentin’s journal, the first time he describes the feeling which is also the title of this 1938 novel. For ten points, name this work by Jean-Paul Sartre which introduces in fiction form his conception of existentialism.