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Reading Experimental Writing - Hardcover

Georgina Colby

 
9781474440387: Reading Experimental Writing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 147444038X ISBN 13: 9781474440387
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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, 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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About the Author

Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.

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Explores the challenges and significance of reading experimental writing Bringing together internationally leading scholars and practitioners 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 the works of avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Erica Hunt, Joan Retallack, Caroline Bergvall, and Uljana Wolf, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing. Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.

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Explores the challenges and significance of reading experimental writingBringing together internationally leading scholars and practitioners 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 the works of avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Erica Hunt, Joan Retallack, Caroline Bergvall, and Uljana Wolf, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing.Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
147444038X
ISBN 13 
9781474440387
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Editor
Georgina Colby