Reading Experimental Writing

Reading Experimental Writing
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781474440417
ISBN-13 : 147444041X
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Book Synopsis Reading Experimental Writing by : Colby Georgina Colby

Download or read book Reading Experimental Writing written by Colby Georgina Colby and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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century Explores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issues Utilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading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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