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Colby, Georgina

 
9781474431545: Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible
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ISBN 10: 1474431542 ISBN 13: 9781474431545
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers

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Georgina Colby is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster. She has published widely in the field of avant-garde writing and feminisms. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016), and the collections Reading Experimental Writing (2019) and, as co-editor, The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible (2020). She is the series editor (with Eric White) of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing and Edinburgh Foundations in Avant-Garde Writing.



Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.

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‘Georgina Colby provides the fullest account available of the wild and wily work of the great Kathy Acker, relying not just on her published work but also unpublished poems, journals, manuscripts and correspondence. Contextualising Acker’s work among her contemporaries and precursors in poetry, fiction, performance, philosophy and feminism, Colby traces her lineages and, as importantly, the resistances that made her so inimitable.’Charles Bernstein, University of PennsylvaniaAn in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative writersKathy Acker’s body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker’s compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker’s writing and draws on her knowledge of unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker’s works. Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer, this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that are comparable in scope and rigor to her modernist predecessors Stein and Joyce. Each chapter focuses on a particular compositional method and insists on the importance of avant-garde experiment to the process of making new non-conventional modes of meaning. Combining close attention to the form of Acker’s experimental writings with a consideration of the literary cultures from which she emerged, Colby positions Acker as a key figure in the American avant-garde and a pioneer of contemporary experimental women’s writing.Georgina Colby is Lecturer in English at University of Westminster.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474431542
ISBN 13 
9781474431545
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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