Georgina Colby (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474440387
- eISBN:
- 9781474481236
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440387.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
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 ...
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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, Etel Adnan, 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.Less
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, Etel Adnan, 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.
Michael Golston
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231164306
- eISBN:
- 9780231538633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231164306.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Chapter 5 is a ficto-critical piece on Conceptualism dedicated to the anthropologist Michael Taussig. It provides an overview of the critical literature on allegory after 1950. It is part collage, ...
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Chapter 5 is a ficto-critical piece on Conceptualism dedicated to the anthropologist Michael Taussig. It provides an overview of the critical literature on allegory after 1950. It is part collage, part fantasy, part critique, part appropriated and overwritten text, and itself includes several short allegories of the Conceptual poetry scene. It focuses critically on pieces from Craig Dworkin’s Strand, which it reads as classic postmodern allegorical transcodings between poetry and other discourses.Less
Chapter 5 is a ficto-critical piece on Conceptualism dedicated to the anthropologist Michael Taussig. It provides an overview of the critical literature on allegory after 1950. It is part collage, part fantasy, part critique, part appropriated and overwritten text, and itself includes several short allegories of the Conceptual poetry scene. It focuses critically on pieces from Craig Dworkin’s Strand, which it reads as classic postmodern allegorical transcodings between poetry and other discourses.
Guillermo Rodríguez
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199463602
- eISBN:
- 9780199087235
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199463602.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) was an acclaimed translator and poet, as well as a seminal essayist, teacher, and intellectual with a multilayered genius and aesthetic vision. This critical work on one of ...
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A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) was an acclaimed translator and poet, as well as a seminal essayist, teacher, and intellectual with a multilayered genius and aesthetic vision. This critical work on one of India’s most influential authors of the second half of the twentieth century explores his artistic universe—the poet in him—as the central axis of a complex personality. Besides uncovering hitherto unknown private diaries, notes, poetry drafts, and scholarly writings from the A.K. Ramanujan Papers archived at the University of Chicago, this book illustrates how Ramanujan absorbed the multiple aesthetic contexts and particulars in his life and work, and how these are reflected in his writings as a way of thinking and as a nurturing force behind his creative self. As a multilingual scholar at home in several branches of knowledge and bilingual poet mediating between India and the USA, Ramanujan’s written legacy is a network of miscellaneous disciplines, subjects, genres, and sources that form a colourful tapestry. This analysis of A.K. Ramanujan’s poetics and aesthetics, based on a systematic overview of wide-ranging material, including a first-time scrutiny of rare unpublished texts, seeks to extract a coherent picture out of this mosaic of ideas and reflections. It is a vastly informative and original study, both in the narrative it constructs of Ramanujan’s life in India and the USA and the thorough interpretation it offers of his work as a poet, scholar, translator, and cultural mediator.Less
A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) was an acclaimed translator and poet, as well as a seminal essayist, teacher, and intellectual with a multilayered genius and aesthetic vision. This critical work on one of India’s most influential authors of the second half of the twentieth century explores his artistic universe—the poet in him—as the central axis of a complex personality. Besides uncovering hitherto unknown private diaries, notes, poetry drafts, and scholarly writings from the A.K. Ramanujan Papers archived at the University of Chicago, this book illustrates how Ramanujan absorbed the multiple aesthetic contexts and particulars in his life and work, and how these are reflected in his writings as a way of thinking and as a nurturing force behind his creative self. As a multilingual scholar at home in several branches of knowledge and bilingual poet mediating between India and the USA, Ramanujan’s written legacy is a network of miscellaneous disciplines, subjects, genres, and sources that form a colourful tapestry. This analysis of A.K. Ramanujan’s poetics and aesthetics, based on a systematic overview of wide-ranging material, including a first-time scrutiny of rare unpublished texts, seeks to extract a coherent picture out of this mosaic of ideas and reflections. It is a vastly informative and original study, both in the narrative it constructs of Ramanujan’s life in India and the USA and the thorough interpretation it offers of his work as a poet, scholar, translator, and cultural mediator.
