Kathy Acker : : Writing the Impossible / / Georgina Colby.

An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writersKathy Acker's body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional pro...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 12 colour illustrations
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde
  • Chapter 1. Writing Asystematically: Early Experimental Writings 1970-1979
  • Chapter 2. Collage and the Anxiety of Self-description: Blood and Guts in High School
  • Chapter 3. Writing-through: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream
  • Chapter 4. Intertextuality and Constructive Non-identity: In Memoriam to Identity
  • Chapter 5. Montage and Creative Cutting: My Mother: Demonology
  • Chapter 6. Ekphrasis, Abstraction, and Myth: 'From Psyche's Journal', Eurydice in the Underworld, 'Requiem'
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index