Janey undergoes, as if in a fairytale, a nightmare journey of exploitation - first incest, then abortions, a job selling cookies to the chi-chi bourgois of Brooklyn, a one-sided love affair with the leader of punk gang THE SCORPIONS, and finally is sold into the white slave trade in the. This volume presents three works by Kathy Acker, renowned for works that combine graphic eroticism with detailed politics and what the author calls 'pop content' including expositions of anti-social values and attacks on religion, education, and government.
Download e-Book. Posted on. Page Count. The main character, Janey, first translates several poems of Propertius, switching her identification between the male author, who serves as model for the desiring poet, and his beloved Cynthia, a female speaker. She then meets the ghost of Catullus, who leads her to her death; on the final page of the book is an unattributed version of Sappho fr. Acker uses the Roman poets Catullus and Propertius to explore the relationship between author, work, and inspiration, and draws on the Greek poet Sappho to offer a programmatic statement about gender relations and literature.
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You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Can you help donate a copy? Duvall Publisher: Univ. Where William Faulkner's fiction stands in relation to that of Ellison, Pynchon, Nabokov, and other postmodern greats. Explores the challenges and significance of experimental writing Offers a forum for reflecting on the significance of avant-garde writing for the twenty-first century Explores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issues Utilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading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.
Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing. Includes photocopied typescript with manuscript changes, correspondence from R.
Knowles to R. Rose, and comments from Ines Buchli and R. Rose on the script. American Paraliterature examines the generative encounters of post French theory with the postwar American avant-garde. The conference was an attempt to directly connect the American avant-garde with French theory. This schizo-connection presents a way to read the experimental methods of the American avant-garde Burroughs, Cage, and Kathy Acker , and how their writing creates a counterprogram to the power that Foucault and Deleuze started to articulate in the s.
McCaffery converses with the young, recklessly daring, and furiously productive William Vollmann and with Marianne Hauser, who published her first novel nearly sixty years ago They are a diverse lot, shaped by very different literary and personal influences, and addressing divergent readerships. This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism, critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism.
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