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Reading Experimental Writing / Georgina Colby.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 30 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474440387
  • 9781474440400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.987 23
LOC classification:
  • PN771 .R428 2020
  • PN771 .R428 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing -- Contributors -- 1. ‘Fog is My Land’: A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan -- 2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian and Others -- 3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker’s Manuscript Practice -- 4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s Piece Logic -- 5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics -- 6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’ -- 7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Towards an Interdependent Model of Reading -- 8. Reading Language Art in Digital Media: Reconfi gurations of Experimental Practices -- 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Explores the challenges and significance of experimental writingOffers a forum for reflecting on the significance of avant-garde writing for the twenty-first centuryExplores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issuesUtilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives. New reading practices are both offered and traced in avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Erica Hunt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joan Retallack, M. NourbeSe Philip, Caroline Bergvall, Uljana Wolf, Samantha Gorman and Dave Jhave Johnston, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing -- Contributors -- 1. ‘Fog is My Land’: A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan -- 2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian and Others -- 3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker’s Manuscript Practice -- 4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s Piece Logic -- 5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics -- 6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’ -- 7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Towards an Interdependent Model of Reading -- 8. Reading Language Art in Digital Media: Reconfi gurations of Experimental Practices -- 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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Explores the challenges and significance of experimental writingOffers a forum for reflecting on the significance of avant-garde writing for the twenty-first centuryExplores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issuesUtilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives. New reading practices are both offered and traced in avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Erica Hunt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joan Retallack, M. NourbeSe Philip, Caroline Bergvall, Uljana Wolf, Samantha Gorman and Dave Jhave Johnston, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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