Poetic revolutionaries : : intertextuality & subversion / / Marion May Campbell.

• Author: Campbell, Marion May.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern studies ; 50; Postmodern Studies 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by a range of writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance such as those of Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies – covering the structural, narratological, stylistic and scenographic – can work to boost a text’s subversive power.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- The fetishised coupling: poetics and revolution -- Jean Genet’s transgressive scenography -- Monique Wittig’s Le corps lesbien / The Lesbian Body -- Re-materialising the disappearing body in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber -- Kathy Acker or Catheter the Hack -- Textual intercourse: Kathleen Mary Fallon’s Working Hot -- Kim Scott’s Benang: From the Heart -- Radical disorientalism in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing -- In guise of conclusion -- ironic trans-contextualisation in a work of postmodern parody -- Works cited -- Index.