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  1. Not born digital
    poetics, print literacy, new media
    Author: Morris, Daniel
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

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    Machine generated contents note: -- 1. This is Just to Say This is the End of Art: Williams and the Aesthetic Attitude -- 2. Medium as Messenger as Medium as Messenger: Hannah Weiner Anchor's the Social Poetics of 1986 in Weeks -- 3. Bibliodeath: What is an Archive in a Digital Era? -- 4. Gaps in the Machine: On Andrei Codrescu's Unarchival Poetics -- 5. "Tech support says 'Dead Don Walking': Tradition, the Internet, and the Individual Talent in the Poetry of Daniel Y. Harris -- 6. (In)decisive Moments: On Kenneth Goldsmith's Seven American Deaths and Disasters -- 7. On Soliloquy: Kenneth Goldsmith as Conceptualist at the cusp of a Digital Age -- 8. Bad Company, Meet Sonic Youth: On Noah Eli Gordon's Inbox -- 9. "Cum on Feel the Noize": The Erotics of Literary Activism in an Age of Internet Viruses in An Army of Lovers -- 10. Ai Wei Wei's Dirty ConceptualismBibliography -- Index "Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein, a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of "official verse culture," refers to as "frame lock" and "tone jam." While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with "screen memory" (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of "found" materials"-- "Breaks new ground by evoking framework models of art theory to approach innovative U.S. poetry, with special emphasis on 21st-century examples of conceptual authors whose "found" material first appeared in new media contexts"--

     
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  2. The American biographical novel
    Author: Lackey, Michael
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

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    Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: The Rise and Legitimization of the American Biographical Novel -- Chapter Two: The Fictional Truth of the Biographical Novel: The Case of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Chapter Three: Surrealism, Historical Representation, and the Biographical Novel -- Chapter Four: Zora Neale Hurston and the Art of Political Critique in the Biblical Biographical Novel -- Chapter Five: Dual Temporal Truths in the Biographical novel -- Chapter Six: The Biographical Novel: A Misappropriated Life or a Truthful Fiction? -- Bibliography -- Index "Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history"-- "The American Biographical Novel examines the rise of this genre of fiction, how it engages and historicizes the political, the unique kind of 'truth' it communicates, and how it contributes to our collective understanding of culture and consciousness"--

     
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  3. Ordinary matters
    modernist women's literature and photography
    Author: Sim, Lorraine
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

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    FC; Halftitle; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Ordinary matters, modernity and women's modernism; 1 'I am part of the dense smooth clean paving stone': The street in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage; 2 Extraordinary actuality: Helen Levitt's streets; 3 Homely things: Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf; 4 Mrs Brown and the face-to-face; 5 Dorothea Lange: On photographing the familiar; 6 Banalities of evil: Lee Miller's ethics of seeing war; Coda: Margaret Monck and the labour of the everyday; Bibliography; Index "The first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography that demonstrates how their alternative vision of the everyday extends, and often complicates, that of their male contemporaries as well as contemporary everyday life theory"--

     
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  4. Kerouac
    language, poetics, and territory
    Author: Melehy, Hassan
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "A reassessment of Jack Kerouac's poetic theory and practice from the perspective of their central yet most overlooked component: the fact that he thought and worked in two languages, his native French and his adopted English"-- "Given Jack Kerouac's... more

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    "A reassessment of Jack Kerouac's poetic theory and practice from the perspective of their central yet most overlooked component: the fact that he thought and worked in two languages, his native French and his adopted English"-- "Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word "poetics." But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous "spontaneous prose" only after years of seeking techniques to overcome the restrictions he encountered in writing in a single language, English. The result was an elaborate poetics that cannot be fully understood without accounting for his bilingual thinking and practice. Of the more than twenty-five biographies of Kerouac, few have seriously examined his relationship to the French language and the reason for his bilingualism, the Québec Diaspora. Although this background has long been recognized in French-language treatments, it is a new dimension in Anglophone studies of his writing. In a theoretically informed discussion, Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac's poetics of exile involves meditations on moving between territories and languages. Far from being a naïve pursuit, Kerouac's writing practice not only responded but contributed to some of the major aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory offers a major reassessment of a writer who, despite a readership that extends over much of the globe, remains poorly appreciated at home"-- Introduction: Kerouac, Exile, and the Force of Literature -- 1. Unsettlements -- 2. On and Off the Franco-American Road -- 3. Writing in Real Time -- 4. Movements of Return -- 5. The Roots of Abandonment -- Conclusion: Transnational American Literatures -- Bibliography -- Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 150131436X; 9781501314360
    Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary studies: general; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; Language and languages; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Kerouac, Jack
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  5. Woolf
    a guide for the perplexed
    Author: Simpson, Kathryn
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London

    Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Woolf's Modernism; 2 Formal Innovation; 3 Narrative Technique; 4 Characterization; 5 Gender, Sexuality and Class; 6 Empire and Jewishness; Endnotes; References; Further... more

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    Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Woolf's Modernism; 2 Formal Innovation; 3 Narrative Technique; 4 Characterization; 5 Gender, Sexuality and Class; 6 Empire and Jewishness; Endnotes; References; Further Reading; Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1472590686; 1472590678; 9781472590688; 9781472590671
    Series: Bloomsbury guides for the perplexed
    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: general; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Woolf, Virginia
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  6. Ezra Pound in the present
    essays on Pound's contemporaneity
    Contributor: Park, Josephine Nock-Hee (HerausgeberIn); Stasi, Paul (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's... more

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    "Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the "digital humanities," or found it amenable to his own quasi-social scientific views about the role of literature in society? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound's work for our times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, "news that stays news."""-- "Prominent experts in the field of modernist poetry argue for the relevance of Ezra Pound's work to current conversations about globalization, finance capital, comparative literature, the digital humanities and affect theory"-- 8 Ezra Pound's Effective Demand: Keynes, Causality, and The Cantos C.D. BlantonBibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Why Pound's Imagist Poems Still Matter Charles Altieri; 2 Not-So-Distant Reading Josephine Park; 3 Paleolithic Media: Deep Time and Ezra Pound's Methods Aaron Jaffe; 4 "I am all for the triangle": The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Pound's Japan Christopher Bush; 5 Ezra Pound and the Globalization of Literature Jean-Michel Rabat.; 6 Ezra Pound and the Comparative Literature of the Present, or, Triptych Rome/London/Pisa Christine Froula; 7 Ezra Pound and the Critique of Value Paul Stasi.

     
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  7. Literary impressionism
    vision and memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and May Sinclair
    Author: Bowler, Rebecca
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "Explores how literary impressionists such as H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford and May Sinclair responded to new developments in visual arts and the sciences of memory and perception"-- Cover; Half Title; Series page; Title; Copyright;... more

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    "Explores how literary impressionists such as H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford and May Sinclair responded to new developments in visual arts and the sciences of memory and perception"-- Cover; Half Title; Series page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literary Impressionism: Subjective and Objective Visions in Dorothy Richardson and Ford Madox Ford; 'The thing perceived and herself perceiving': The double impression; Realism, impressionism and Henry James; Subjectivity and objectivity; Representing the unrepresentable I: Total experience and the distracted subject in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End; Representing the unrepresentable II: Masculine blindness and feminine angles of vision in Dorothy Richardson's ... Selection and patterning: The impressionist text as tapestry2 Mystical Visions and Primary Perception: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson; Naming the unnameable: Silence, mysticism, philosophy, religion; Silence and Maeterlinck; Mysticism, philosophy and the absolute; 'Breaking through the veil of sense': God and reality; 3 Visual Metaphors: Dorothy Richardson and H.D.; Seeing through representation I: The world as art; Seeing through representation II: The body as art; The composite image: Fidelity through multiplicity; Weaving; Cinematic form. Soporific cinema and the creative collaboration of art and audienceInterlude; 4 Memory, Distance, Perspective; Psychology and the novel-.memoir: May Sinclair and Ford Madox Ford; 'Post-.war Freudianity': Trauma, repression and detachment; 'Disinterested contemplation': Dorothy Richardson's March Moonlight and the 'middles'; Gallery spaces: Memory and metaphor in Richardson and H.D.; Conclusion: 'Proust and Proust and Proust. Forwards, Backwards, Upside Down'; Works Cited; Index.

     
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  8. Women's experimental writing
    negative aesthetics and feminist critique
    Author: Berry, Ellen E.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London

    "Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette... more

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    "Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. These writers all share a commitment to combining extreme content with formally radical techniques in order to enact varieties of gender, sex, race, class and nation-based experience that, they suggest, may only be "represented" accurately through the experimental unmaking of dominant structures of rationality. Ellen Berry extends the anti-social negative critique predominant in queer studies by offering an alternative archive of feminist negative literary practices and explores the consequences of joining an anti-social critique with radical innovations in literary and cultural forms. She argues that the radical aesthetic practices the authors employ are central to the emergence of contemporary Western feminisms and in doing so rectifies a critical neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon."--Bloomsbury Publishing Cover -- Half Title -- Also by -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Situating Negative Aesthetics -- 1 Apocalyptic Feminism: Negative Aesthetics in Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto -- In the time of SCUM -- Reading SCUM Manifesto -- SCUM's feminist affects -- 2 Kathy Acker's Fatal Strategies -- Acker's anti-.narratives -- Acker's abject female bodies -- Acker's fatal strategies -- 3 "The Remnant Is the Whole" -- The longing in the faces of the lost -- She speaks her -- 4 Horrors of Power: Abjection and the "Monstrous-. Masculine" in Chantal Chawaf's Redemption -- Immersed in abjection -- Why approach abjection? -- 5 Suspending Gender -- Reading indeterminacy -- Reading indeterminately? -- What's indeterminacy got to do with it? -- What's loss got to do with it? -- 6 Becoming-. Girl/. Becoming-. Fly/. Becoming-. Imperceptible -- Becoming cruddy in the days of the father -- Becoming-.fly -- Becoming-.imperceptible -- Conclusion: From SCUM to Cruddy and Beyond -- Bibliography -- Index.

     
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  9. The astral H.D
    occult and religious sources and contexts for H.D.'s poetry and prose
    Author: Robinson, Matte
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms, ' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to... more

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    "Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms, ' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain war hero Hugh Dowding-along the way"--

     
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  10. Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German
    Author: Wilper, James Patrick
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana

    In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts... more

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    In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men

     
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  11. The Gospel according to David Foster Wallace
    boredom and addiction in an age of distraction
    Author: Miller, Adam S.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes -- from boredom to addiction, and distraction -- in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists. In a series of short,... more

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    "The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes -- from boredom to addiction, and distraction -- in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists. In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the book joins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute to his overall account of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century. Adam Miller explores how Wallace's work masterfully investigates the nature of first-world boredom and shows, in the process, how easy it is to get addicted to distraction (chemical, electronic, or otherwise). Implicitly critiquing, excising, and repurposing elements of AA's Twelve Step program, Wallace suggests that the practice of prayer (regardless of belief in God), the patient application of attention to things that seem ordinary and boring, and the internalization of clichš may be the antidote to much of what ails us in the 21st century."--Bloomsbury Publishing

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781474237017; 1474237010; 9781474237000; 1474237002; 9781474236997; 1474236995
    Series: New directions in religion and literature
    Subjects: Religion in literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: from c 1900; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; Religion; Religion in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Wallace, David Foster; Wallace, David Foster; Wallace, David Foster; Wallace, David Foster; Wallace, David Foster
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