Interruptions : The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series .
- Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Invention of Poetry -- Part I -- 1. An Archeology of Fragments -- 2. The Impossible Experience of Words: The Later Fiction of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett -- Part II -- 3. Dialectrics: Turbulence and Contradiction in J. H. Prynne's Kazoo Dreamboats -- 4. Metastatic Lyricism: John Wilkinson's Poetry and Poetics -- Part III -- 5. Apology for Stuffed Owls: On the Virtues of Bad Poetry -- 6. Paratactics ("Pataquerics") of the Ordinary: The Course of the Comic in Charles Bernstein's Poetry -- Part IV -- 7. On the Words of the Wake (and What to Do with Them) -- 8. What's in a Mirror? James Joyce's Phenomenology of Misperception -- Epilogue: On Incompletion (Stopping Briefly with Gertrude Stein) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Discourse analysis, Literary. Literature, Modern-Criticism, Textual. Literature, Experimental-Criticism, Textual. Poetics. Aesthetics in literature. Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. Intertextuality.