Anarchists in the Academy

Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-77212-376-0
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism’s power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offers a useful theoretical context for poetry that is not explicitly political—specifically for the contemporary experimental poem with its characteristic challenges to subjectivity, representation, authorial power, and conventional constructions of the reader-text relationship. Her case studies of sixteen texts make a bold move toward politicizing readers and imbuing literary theory with an activist praxis—a sharp hope. This is a provocative volume for those interested in contemporary poetics, experimental literatures, and the digital humanities.

Case Studies: Jim Andrews, Christian Bök, Mez Breeze, John Cage, Andy Campbell, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Goldsmith, Susan Howe, Jackson Mac Low, Erín Moure [Erin Mouré], Harryette Mullen, bpNichol, Vanessa Place, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, W. Mark Sutherland, and Darren Wershler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spinosa, Dani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 Precursors to Digital Writing
Jackson Mac Low Is Something Something
John Cage Making Excessive Noise
Robert Duncan Plagiarizing
bpNichol for the Curious Viewer/Reader

2 Feminism, Print, Machines
Susan Howe Sleeping in the Library
Erín Moure’s Name in Quotation Marks
Juliana Spahr Prefers Both
Harryette Mullen Making Kimchee in a Museum

3 Easy Concepts
Kenneth Goldsmith Talking to Himself
Vanessa Place Without Serifs
Christian Bök Obsolesces the Avant-Garde
Darren Wershler andor Any Number of Readers

4 Digital Interventions
Jim Andrews Drifts Apart
W. Mark Sutherland Puts the Cedar in Abecedarian
Brian Kim Stefans Alphabetizes Dreams
Andy Campbell, Mez Breeze, and the Constrict(l)ure of Code

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Spinosa, Dani
Dani Spinosa holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from York University. She teaches literature in Toronto, and can be found online at www.genericpronoun.com.