Everybody's Autonomy : Connective Reading and Collective Identity

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spahr, Juliana.

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century.

Language and culture--United States--History--20th century.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century.

Language and culture--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1753.

Summary:

Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity. Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and identity.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""There Is No Way of Speaking English"" The Polylingual Grammars of Gertrude Stein; 2. ""Make It Go with a Single Word. We."" Bruce Andrews's ""Confidence Trick"" and Lyn Hejinian's My Life; 3. ""What Stray Companion"" Harryette Mullen's Communities of Reading; 4. ""Tertium Quid Neither One Thing Nor the Other"" Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Decolonization of Reading; Conclusion: An Unquiet House, An Uncalm World; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8173-8969-5

OCLC:

911246890