Historicity of Experience

Krzysztof Ziarek is an associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan and coeditor, with Seamus Deane, of Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies, also published by Northwestern University Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Avant-Garde as a Critique of ExperiencePart One. Rethinking the Experience of Modernity:Art, Technology, and Sexual Difference 1. Reproducing History: Benjamin and Heidegger on the Work of Art in Modernity2. Contestations of the Everyday: The Avant-Garde, Technology and the Critique of Aesthetics3. Sexuate Experience: Irigaray and the Poetics of Sexual DifferencePart Two. The Avant-Garde Moment in a Transatlantic Frame: Poetics, Sexuality, and Revolution4. Gertrude Stein's Poetics of the Event: Avant-Garde, the Ordinary, and Sexual Difference5. History and Revolution: Khlebnikov's Futurist Revision of Modern Rationality in ZangeziPart Three. From the Avant-Garde to Language Poets6. How to Write the Everyday in Eastern Europe: Miron Bialoszewski's "Minor" Poetry7. "A Sounding of Uncertainty": Susan Howe's Poetic Gendering of HistoryBeyond the Negative: An Afterword on the Avant-GardeNotesBibliographyIndex