Reading Experimental Writing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Georgina Colby, University of Westminster) Colby, Georgina (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature

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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century Explores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issues Utilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading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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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-10
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474440387

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Georgina Colby is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster. She has published widely in the field of avant-garde writing and feminisms. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016), and the collections Reading Experimental Writing (2019) and, as co-editor, The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible (2020). She is the series editor (with Eric White) of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing and Edinburgh Foundations in Avant-Garde Writing.

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPrefaceCharles BernsteinIntroduction: Reading Experimental Writing, Georgina Colby1. ‘Fog is My Land’ A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan, Jennifer Scappettone2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian, and Others, Alex Houen3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker's Manuscript Practice, Georgina Colby4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s “Piece Logic”, Chris Chen5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics, Sophie Seita6. 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 Rudy8. Reading Language Art on Digital Media: Reconfigurations of Experimental Practices, John Cayley 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things, Peter JaegerNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

The essays comprising this conceptually rich and astutely edited volume read contemporary experimental writing in terms of its engagement with a genuinely historical present moment, unfolding at manifold sites of turbulence. The result is a set of extraordinarily timely essays on aesthetic activism, reflecting an array of perspectives while sharing a sense of the contemporary as emergent and still incomplete. This is a powerful contribution to the moment, and one with long term significance.