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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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"The artist Edgar Degas once wrote to his friend the poet Stephane Mallarme to complain that he could never write a satisfactory poem, even though he was full of ideas. "My dear Degas," Mallarme replied, "one doesn't write poetry with ideas; one writes poetry with words." Mallarme's point about the materiality of language, self-evident though it may be, is one that people who care about poetry often forget, and that Craig Dworkin underscores with fresh insight and contemporary relevance. A highly regarded critic and conceptual poet, Dworkin argues that an attention to the material form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending above all to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Dworkin traces otherwise hidden networks across the surface of texts and reveals patterns that can be significant without being symbolic-fully meaningful without communicating any preordained message. He considers prose as a dynamic literary form, with examples from writers as diverse as Lyn Hejinian, William Faulkner, and Joseph Roth. He takes up the status of the proper name in Modernism, with examples from Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Guillaume Apolliniare. And he offers in-depth analyses of individual authors from the counter-canon of the avant-garde: P. Inman, Russell Atkins, N . H. Pritchard, and Andy Warhol. The result is an inspiring intervention in contemporary poetics"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Literary style. --- Literary style. --- Poetics. --- Poetics.

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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