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"Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of three fictional titles in the 33 1/3 Series, and tells the story of Kathleen and Mary, two women who find themselves alone in a house in the middle of the dark, forbidden forest that borders their depressed valley town. Amidst a dramatic natural setting, they negotiate their freedom, their pasts, their survival, and each other. Rid of Me is a story of escape and desire, violence and gender, landscape, family, and memory. It's a twisted fairy tale, a queer dystopia/utopia, and a lyrical exploration of kidnapping, dreams, murder, sex, revenge, and love.Kate Schatz's Rid of Me is at once a wholly original work of fiction and an innovative meditation on one writer's relationship to an album. The album in question is PJ Harvey's 1993 recording Rid of Me, a release noted again and again for its raw sound, dark lyrics, and unabashed presentation of female sexuality, desire, and rage. In her prologue, Schatz states that the book is not about Rid of Me, but because of it and the book's 14 chapters (one for each song on the album) use the lyrics, moods, images, and characters to create something entirely different, yet intimately connected to the music."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges, Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues
Experimental fiction --- -Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- History and criticism --- Roman expérimental --- Roman expérimental --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Technique --- Fiction. --- Roman --- Histoire et critique --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Experimental fiction - History and criticism --- Fiction - Technique --- Self-consciousness in literature
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Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for Burroughs’ breakthrough, through the countercultural explosion of the 1960's, Shift Linguals explores the evolution of the cut-ups within the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism and the avant-garde to arrive at the present and the digital age. Some 50 years on from the first ‘discovery’ of the cut-ups in 1959, it is only now that we are truly able to observe the method’s impact, not only on literature, but on music and culture in a broader sense. The result of over nine years of research, this study represents the first sustained and detailed analysis of the cut-ups as a narrative form. With explorations of the works of Burroughs, Gysin, Kathy Acker, and John Giorno, it also contains the first critical writing on the works of Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner in English, as well as the first in-depth discussion of the writing of Stewart Home to date.
Experimental fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Experimental fiction. --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- History and criticism. --- Burroughs, William S., --- Baroouz, Ouiliam, --- Berrouz, Uilʹi͡am, --- Burroughs, William, --- Lee, William, --- Lee, Willy, --- Burroughs, William S. --- Burroughs, William --- Lee, Willy --- Lee, William --- Baroouz, Ouiliam --- Berrouz, Uilʹi︠a︡m --- Criticism and interpretation.
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A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the earl
Experimental fiction. --- Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Benjamin, W. --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Benjamin, Walter --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터,
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This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to create through the use of graphic devices and explores why literary criticism has dismissed such features as either unreadable experimental gimmicks or, more recently, as examples of the worst kind of postmodern decadence. Through the examination of problematical texts which utilise the graphic surface in innovative and unusual ways, including Samuel Beckett's Watt, B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo, Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru and Alasdair Gray's Lanark, this book demonstrates that an awareness of the graphic surface can make significant contributions to interpretation.
Experimental fiction, English --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Typographic design --- Design --- Printing --- Layout (Printing) --- History and criticism. --- Experimental fiction. --- Book design. --- Experimental fiction --- Design, Book --- Books --- Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- Format --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- graphic textual phenomena. --- literary criticism. --- literary study. --- manuscript transformation. --- mimesis. --- novel. --- prose fiction. --- reading. --- semantic content. --- typographic devices.
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