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Finding Nothing : The VanGardes, 1959-1975 /

"Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Betts, Gregory, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Finding Nothing
  • ONE 1-19 Thoughts on TISH, 1961-1969 (A Document of Response)
  • TWO The Birth of Blew
  • THREE Blew Collage
  • FOUR A Line, A New Line, All One: Variant Narratives of Concrete Canada
  • FIVE The Triumph of Surrealism: Magick Art in Vancouver
  • SIX Performing Proprioception: The Birthing Story as Public Discourse
  • SEVEN Avant Now and Then: Locating the Post-Avant
  • Conclusion - "we stopped at nothing": Finding Nothing in the Avant-Garde Archive
  • Appendix A: Warren Tallman Elegy
  • Appendix B: Concrete Poetry
  • Appendix C: Glossary of Intermedia and Transdisciplinary Groups
  • Appendix D: Letter to the Editor of the Georgia Straight
  • Works Cited
  • Index