’Pataphysics Unrolled / / ed. by Katie L. Price, Michael R. Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bernstein, Charles,; Dickinson, Adam,; Drucker, Johanna,; Dworkin, Craig,; Décimo, Marc,; Hansen, Catherine,; Hendler, James,; Heon, John,; Hiebert, Ted,; Hugill, Andrew,; McCaffery, Steve,; McDowell, Seth,; McGann, Jerome,; O’Dair, Marcus,; Price, Katie L.,; Rabaté, Jean-Michel,; Taylor, Michael R.,; Tierney, Orchid,; Walsh, Brandon,
• HerausgeberIn: Price, Katie L.,; Taylor, Michael R.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Refiguring Modernism ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 20 color/19 b&w illustrations

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Editors’ Note
• Introduction: “Unrolled by the Saliva and Teeth of the Water”
• Part 1: “And Behold, the Wallpaper of Faustroll’s Body”: Jarry’s Pataphysical Invitation
• 1. Twisted Witz: Experiments in Psychopathology and Humor by Dr. Faustroll and His Pataphysical Progeny
• 2. Pataphallics in Jarry’s Novels
• 3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s Intraphysics
• 4. Marcel Duchamp and the Collège de ’Pataphysique
• 5. The Potential Energy of Texts [ΔU = −PΔV]
• Part 2: “Like a Musical Score, All Art and All Science”: Pataphysics After Jarry and Beyond the Collège
• 6. Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton
• 7. Circumstantial Evidence: Pataphysical Inflexions in Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger and bpNichol’s Probable Systems
• 8. Beyond “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”: Pataphysics and Popular Music
• 9. Art and the Pataphysics of Exception: Or, How a Sieve Becomes a Time Machine
• Part 3: “Written in the Curves of the Limbs”: Pataphysical Criticism
• 10. Reading, Writing, and Rhythmatic
• 11. The Patacritical Demon, Two Decades Later
• 12. Reflections on Applied Research in Patacriticism: Prism and Reading’s Shape
• 13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies
• Part 4: “Progression to an Infinite Degree Was Prophesied Therein”: Pataphysics’ Possible Futures
• 14. Concerning an Unfindable Architecture
• 15. Metabolic Poetics: Writing the Anthropocene
• 16. Pataphysics and Computing
• 17. Pataphysics and the Academy
• List of Contributors
• Index