Poetic Revolutionaries

Intertextuality & Subversion
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3786-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Postmodern Studies

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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