Reading Experimental Writing

Georgina Colby

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Reading Experimental Writing

Georgina Colby

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474440400

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Explores the challenges and significance of experimental writing

Offers a forum for reflecting on the significance of avant-garde writing for the twenty-first century
Explores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issues
Utilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished works
Includes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canon

Bringing 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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Charles Bernstein Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Georgina Colby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ‘Fog is My Land’: A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan Jennifer Scappettone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian and Others Alex Houen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker’s Manuscript Practice Georgina Colby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s Piece Logic Chris Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics Sophie Seita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’ Erica Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Towards an Interdependent Model of Reading Susan Rudy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
8. Reading Language Art in Digital Media: Reconfi gurations of Experimental Practices John Cayley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things Peter Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 30 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474440400