Bruns, Gerald L.

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.


Electronic books.

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