Literature's elsewheres : on the necessity of radical literary practices / Annette Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Annette, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Art and literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Experimental--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Literature’s Elsewheres

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Investigating experimental and avant-garde works of art as literature, Gilbert probes what art can't see about the literary and what literature has overlooked in the arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Becoming a Literary Work

Part I: The Status of the Work

1 The Literary Work as an Instantial Entity

2 "Non-retinal Literature": Dematerialization in/of Literature

3 "It's the Idea that Counts": On the Status of Ideas in Propositional Literature

Part II: The Materiality and Integrity of the Work

4 Stéphane Mallarmé's A Throw of the Dice as a Paradigm of Literary Site-Specificity

5 Pageworks: The Second Dimension of Literature

6 Bookworks: The Third Dimension of Literature

7 "The Critical Investigation of the 'Bookness' of the Book"

Part III: The Attribution and Identity of the Work

8 Aggressive Appropriation

9 Appropriation Literature: One Text, Two Works

10 A Series of Unique Copies: Different Texts, One Work

11 Translations as Transcreations

Part IV: The Sociality and Autonomy of the Work

12 Site-Specificity and Context-Sensitivity

13 "A Kind of Writing through Publishing"

14 System Test: Institutional Critique of the White Spaces of Literature

Coda: The (Literary) Work as Matter of Negotiation

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780262373500

0262373505

9780262373494 (electronic book)

0262373491

OCLC:

1304242817