{"product_id":"kathy-acker-writing-the-impossible-paperback","title":"Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorgina Colby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKathy Acker's body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In \u003cem\u003eKathy Acker: Writing the Impossible\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker's writing and draws on her knowledge of unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations, and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker's works. Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that are comparable in scope and rigor to her modernist predecessors Stein and Joyce. Each chapter focuses on a particular compositional method and insists on the importance of avant-garde experiment to the process of making new non-conventional modes of meaning. Combining close attention to the form of Acker's experimental writings with a consideration of the literary cultures from which she emerged, Colby positions Acker as a key figure in the American avant-garde, and a pioneer of contemporary experimental women's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, lecture notes, letters and manuscripts from the Kathy Acker Papers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures eleven previously unpublished images of original manuscripts, correspondence, and colour illustrations from the Kathy Acker Papers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUtilises major archival study of Acker's experimental compositional practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSituates Acker as a late modernist writer and a key figure in the American Avant-Garde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Georgina Colby provides the fullest account available of the wild and wily work of the great Kathy Acker, relying not just on her published work but also unpublished poems, journals, manuscripts and correspondence. Contextualising Acker's work among her contemporaries and precursors in poetry, fiction, performance, philosophy and feminism, Colby traces her lineages and, as importantly, the resistances that made her so inimitable.' Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers Kathy 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 processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker's writing and draws on her knowledge of unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker's works. Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer, this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that are comparable in scope and rigor to her modernist predecessors Stein and Joyce. Each chapter focuses on a particular compositional method and insists on the importance of avant-garde experiment to the process of making new non-conventional modes of meaning. Combining close attention to the form of Acker's experimental writings with a consideration of the literary cultures from which she emerged, Colby positions Acker as a key figure in the American avant-garde and a pioneer of contemporary experimental women's writing. Georgina Colby is Lecturer in English at University of Westminster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335480918265,"sku":"9781474431545","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q29xOG5jZ0FlOEE0RnJxaVViaEFCQT09.webp?v=1769663140","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/kathy-acker-writing-the-impossible-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}