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        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment" : [ "The encyclopedic novel is a literary concept popularised by Edward Mendelson in two 1976 essays (\"Encyclopedic Narrative\" and \"Gravity's Encyclopedia\"). In Mendelson's formulation, encyclopedic novels \"attempt to render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ideological perspectives from which that culture shapes and interprets its knowledge\"."] } } }
