Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture) - Hardcover

Amato, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079143401X ISBN 13: 9780791434017

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).

Bookend challenges distinctions between prose and poetry as well as between popular and academic culture, embodying a wide array of poetic techniques to argue that form and structure are themselves essential to artistic and cultural meaning. It critiques the current media environs, a hybrid reality in which the individual encounters his or her public and private selves in the midst of a crisis of values. Each of the five anatomies represents both a personal and a local account of where the author finds himself in social and educational terms, and an attempt is made throughout to situate this individual experience against a global imperative.

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About the Author

Joe Amato is the author of two books of literary criticism and theory, Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture and Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self; four volumes of poetry, Pain Plus Thyme, Under Virga, Finger Exorcised, and Symptoms of a Finer Age; and a novel, Big Man with a Shovel. He is a native of Syracuse, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079143401X
• ISBN 13: 9780791434017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 190