Contemporary Literature articles from December 1997

Contemporary Literature archives from December 1997

An interview with Alice Fulton. (poet)(Interview)
December 22, 1997... Winner of the prestigious MacArthur Award, Alice Fulton has published four books of poetry: Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (first published in 1983 and reissued by the University of Illinois Press in 1996), Palladium (University of...

Silent texts and empty words: structure and intention in the writings of John Cage.
December 22, 1997... Toward the conclusion of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus provides us with a typically early modernist, if not puritanical, distinction between the ebb and flow of everyday experience (and the material...

"Worrying about making it": Ted Berrigan's social poetics.
December 22, 1997... From its position of relative obscurity in the hazy canon of 1960s experimental poetry, Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets mounts an assault on its scholarly future: The academy of the future is opening its doors my dream a crumpled horn...

In the shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the poetics of (mis)translation. (poet Gerard de Nerval)
December 22, 1997... For poets working in the contemporary avant-garde, the role of community in determining choices in language and form, as these instruct a poetics, has been decisive. Rather than being a vehicle for "personal expression" or reinscription of...

The Diaspora Jew and the "instinct for impersonation." (novelist Philip Roth)
December 22, 1997... The Counterlife (1986) concludes when Philip Roth's writerly alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, articulates the central question implied throughout by the novel's multiple and shifting speculations about the course his life might follow. "If," he...

Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women.
December 22, 1997... To evoke the body and technology together is immediately to ask what kinds of conjunctions connect them. For Anne Balsamo in Technologies of the Gendered Body, the important point is that the material and discursive be brought together. She...

Posthuman Bodies.
December 22, 1997... To evoke the body and technology together is immediately to ask what kinds of conjunctions connect them. For Anne Balsamo in Technologies of the Gendered Body, the important point is that the material and discursive be brought together. She...

Fire and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative.
December 22, 1997... Cultural studies approaches to literature have opened many new avenues of exploration for literary critics and scholars. Although most critics working in cultural studies focus on questions of race, gender, sexuality, and class, other...

Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age.
December 22, 1997... Cultural studies approaches to literature have opened many new avenues of exploration for literary critics and scholars. Although most critics working in cultural studies focus on questions of race, gender, sexuality, and class, other...

Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk.
December 22, 1997... Cultural studies approaches to literature have opened many new avenues of exploration for literary critics and scholars. Although most critics working in cultural studies focus on questions of race, gender, sexuality, and class, other...