Kathy Acker : writing the impossible /

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Author / Creator:	Colby, Georgina, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	viii, 310 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Acker, Kathy, -- 1948-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation. Acker, Kathy, -- 1948-1997. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10900446

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ISBN:	074868350X 9780748683505
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
Summary:	In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997. --Amazon.com.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde
1. Writing Asystematically: Early Experimental Writings 1970-1979
2. Collage and the Anxiety of Self-description: Blood and Guts in High School
3. Writing-through: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream
4. Intertextuality and Constructive Non-identity: In Memoriam to Identity
5. Montage and Creative Cutting: My Mother: Demonology
6. Ekphrasis, Abstraction, and Myth: 'From Psyche's Journal', Eurydice in the Underworld, 'Requiem'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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