Interruptions : the fragmentary aesthetic in modern literature /

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In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bruns, Gerald L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]
Series:Modern and contemporary poetics.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Literature, Modern > Criticism, Textual.
Literature, Experimental > Criticism, Textual.
Poetics.
Aesthetics in literature.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Intertextuality.
Discours littéraire.
Poétique.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Signification (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Intertextualité.
literary criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Aesthetics in literature
Discourse analysis, Literary
Intertextuality
Literature, Experimental
Literature, Modern
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
Poetics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the invention of poetry
  • 1. An archeology of fragments
  • 2. The impossible experience of words : the later fiction of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett
  • 3. Dialectrics : turbulence and contradiction in J.H. Prynne's Kazoo dreamboats
  • 4. Metastatic lyricism : John Wilkinson's poetry and poetics
  • 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
  • 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).

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