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A poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations and violations, and how the "illegible" results are to be read, is the subject Craig Dworkin takes up in this ambitious work. In his scrutiny of selected works, and with reference to a rich variety of textual materials--from popular and scientific texts to visual art, political and cultural theories, and experimental films--Dworkin proposes a new way of apprehending the radical formalism of so-called unreadable texts. Dworkin unveils what he describes as "the politics of the poem"--what is signified by its form, enacted by its structures, and implicit in the philosophy of language; how it positions its reader; and other questions relating to the poem as material object. In doing so, he exposes the mechanics and function of truly radical formalism as a practice that move beyond aesthetic considerations into the realms of politics and ideology. Reading the Illegible asks us to reconsider poetry as a physical act, and helps us to see how the range of a text's linguistic and political maneuvers depends to a great extent on the material conditions of reading and writing as well as the mechanics of reproduction.

82.015.9 --- 82-1 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Poëzie --- Poetry. --- Poetics. --- 82-1 Poëzie --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Poetics --- Poetry --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Technique --- POETIQUE --- POESIE --- HISTOIRE --- 20E SIECLE

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"Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies.Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet.The result is a narrative laboratory for the “science of imaginary solutions” proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west."

Experimental fiction, American. --- American experimental fiction --- American fiction --- Alfred Jarry, conceptual art, land art, Robert Smithson, pataphysics, scale, Spiral Jetty

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Geschichte --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern. --- Poetics. --- History and criticism --- 2000-2099.

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Artists' writings --- Acconci, Vito, --- Criticism and interpretation --- kunst --- Acconci Vito --- Verenigde Staten --- twintigste eeuw --- 7.071 ACCONCI --- Acconci, Vito, - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation --- Acconci, Vito, - 1940 --- -Artists' writings --- Acconci, Vito, - 1940-

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Architectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological direction for work in the humanities: a literal wager that is willing to take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time, they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John Cage and Lyn Hejinian.

Architecture and literature --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Literature and architecture --- Literature --- POESIE --- LITTERATURE --- ARCHITECTURE ET LITTERATURE --- Littérature moderne --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- Histoire et critique