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'Pataphysics Unrolled / edited by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Refiguring modernism.
- Refiguring Modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pataphysics--History.
- Pataphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "unrolled by the saliva and teeth of the water" / Katie L. Price
- Twisted Witz : experiments in psychopathology and humor by Dr. Faustroll and his pataphysical progeny / John Heon
- Pataphallics in Jarry's novels / Jean-Michel Rabate
- Wartime pataphysics : postwar surrealism, the main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak's intraphysics / Catherine Hansen
- Marcel Duchamp and the College de 'pataphysique / Marc Decimo ; translated by Anne M. Mulhall
- The potential energy of texts [fjU = -PfjV] / Craig Dworkin
- Pataphysics in Philadelphia : the strange case of James E. Brewton / Michael R. Taylor
- Circumstantial evidence : pataphysical inflexions in Edward Dorn's Gunslinger and bpNichol's Probable systems / Steve McCaffery
- Beyond "Maxwell's silver hammer" : pataphysics and popular music / Marcus O'Dair
- Art and the pataphysics of exception, or, How a sieve becomes a time machine / Ted Hiebert
- Reading, writing, and rhythmatic / Jerome McGann
- The patacritical demon, two decades later / Johanna Drucker
- Reflections on applied research in patacriticism : prism and reading's shape / Brandon Walsh
- The pataquerical imagination : Midrashic antinomianism and the promise of bent studies / Charles Bernstein
- Concerning an unfindable architecture / Seth McDowell
- Metabolic poetics : writing the Anthropocene / Adam Dickinson
- Pataphysics and computing / Andrew Hugill and James Hendler
- Pataphysics and the academy / Orchid Tierney.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271091853
- 0271091851
- OCLC:
- 1301927255
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