X : writings '79-'82 / John Cage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cage, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, PA : Distributed by Harper & Row], c1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions."

Contents:

Writing for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake

"There is not much difference between the two." (Suzuki Daisetz)

Toyama 1982

James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet

Another Song

Writing through the Cantos

(Untitled)

B. W. 1916-1979

Composition in Retrospect

For her first exhibition with love

Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued 1973-1982

Wishful Thinking

Muoyce (Writing for the Fifth Time through Finnegans Wake).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-73212-9

9786612732126

0-8195-7271-3

OCLC:

763158210