Reading Experimental Writing

ISBN-13: 9781474440394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Georgina Colby

Opis

Bringing together internationally leading scholars and practitioners 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 the works of avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Erica Hunt, Joan Retallack, Caroline Bergvall, and Uljana Wolf, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing..

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface, Charles Bernstein; Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing, Georgina Colby; 1. ‘Fog is My Land’ A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan, Jennifer Scappettone; 2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian, and Others, Alex Houen; 3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker's Manuscript Practice, Georgina Colby; 4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s “Piece Logic”, Chris Chen; 5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics, Sophie Seita; 6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’, Erica kaufman; 7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall's Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading, Susan Rudy; 8. Reading Language Art on Digital Media: Reconfigurations of Experimental Practices, John Cayley; 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things, Peter Jaeger; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.