Stephen Benson is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Cycles of Influence (2002) and Literary Music (2006), editor of Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale (2008), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014) and Writing the Field Recording (2018). Clare Connors is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (2010) and Literary Theory: A Beginner’s Guide (2010), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suggested Further Reading; A Note on the Texts; 1. Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments; 2. John Cage, from ‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?’; 3. Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’; 4. Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’; 5. Jacques Derrida ‘Aphorism Countertime’; 6. Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence; 7. Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’; 8. Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’; 9. Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’; 10. Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’; 11. Eve Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’; 12. Ali Smith, ‘Green’; 13. John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’; 14. Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’.

Inspiring reading for anyone frustrated by the institutional and social barriers between the values of literature and those of academia.

Stephen Benson is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Cycles of Influence (2002) and Literary Music (2006), editor of Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale (2008), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014) and Writing the Field Recording (2018). Clare Connors is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (2010) and Literary Theory: A Beginner’s Guide (2010), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suggested Further Reading; A Note on the Texts; 1. Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments; 2. John Cage, from ‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?’; 3. Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’; 4. Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’; 5. Jacques Derrida ‘Aphorism Countertime’; 6. Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence; 7. Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’; 8. Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’; 9. Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’; 10. Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’; 11. Eve Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’; 12. Ali Smith, ‘Green’; 13. John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’; 14. Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’.

Inspiring reading for anyone frustrated by the institutional and social barriers between the values of literature and those of academia.

Stephen Benson is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Cycles of Influence (2002) and Literary Music (2006), editor of Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale (2008), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014) and Writing the Field Recording (2018). Clare Connors is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (2010) and Literary Theory: A Beginner’s Guide (2010), and co-editor of Creative Criticism (2014).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suggested Further Reading; A Note on the Texts; 1. Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments; 2. John Cage, from ‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?’; 3. Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’; 4. Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’; 5. Jacques Derrida ‘Aphorism Countertime’; 6. Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence; 7. Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’; 8. Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’; 9. Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’; 10. Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’; 11. Eve Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’; 12. Ali Smith, ‘Green’; 13. John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’; 14. Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’.

Inspiring reading for anyone frustrated by the institutional and social barriers between the values of literature and those of academia.