Michel Delville

Eating the Avant-Garde (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

Sascha Bru

Ben de Bruyn

Key Terms and Methods for Literary History

Literature Now

Andrew Norris

This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or existential malady, the double crux of hunger and disgust is a powerful force which can define the experience of embodiment. Kafka's fable of the "Hunger Artist" offers a matrix for the fast, while its surprising last-page revelation introduces disgust as a correlative of abstinence, conscious or otherwise. Grounded in Kristeva's theory of abjection, the figure of the fraught body lurking at the heart of the negative grotesque gathers precision throughout this study, where it is employed in a widening series of contexts: suicide through overeating, starvation as self-performance or political resistance, the teratological versus the totalitarian, the anorexic harboring of death. In the process, writers and artists as diverse as Herman Melville, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christina Rossetti, George Orwell, Knut Hamsun, J.M. Coetzee, Cindy Sherman, Pieter Breughel, Marina Abramovic, David Nebreda, Paul McCarthy, and others are brought into the discussion. By looking at the different acts of visceral, affective, and ideological resistance performed by the starving body, this book intensifies the relationship between hunger and disgust studies while offering insight into the modalities of the "dark grotesque" which inform the aesthetics and politics of hunger. It will be of value to anyone interested in the culture, politics, and subjectivity of embodiment, and scholars working within the fields of disgust studies, food studies, literary studies, cultural theory, and media studies.

Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust

Mary Ann Caws

A collection of over 60 prose poems, from the 18th century on, some translated from French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and other languages, from authors as diverse as William Blake, Gertrude Stein, Mizumo Yōshū, Sherwood Anderson, and Daniil Kharms, Laura Riding, Rubén Darió, and, of course, Baudelaire and Malarmé.

Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over the Place

Pierre Michel (professeur à l'Université de Liège).)

Hamlet & Co

Despite increasing recognition of his unique talents as a novelist and a short story writer, J.G. Ballard (b. 1930) remains one of the most controversial presences in contemporary British fiction. His obsessions with various forms of violence, alienation and sexual perversion have puzzled many readers, critics and publishers. Still, Ballard's imaginative powers and the originality of his work have also won him the admiration of a broad and international readership. Examining the whole range of Ballard's writings, from the early science fiction stories to Cocaine Nights (1996), Delville's study offers a critical and theoretically informed analysis of his achievements as a novelist and a commentator on contemporary culture. It also identifies and clarifies a number of themes which have occupied Ballard throughout his career. These recurrent concerns include the latent and manifest meanings of technological culture, the impact of modern media on the private and collective imagination and the postulate

J.G.Ballard

Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1990s. Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes the genre's European origins and the work of several early representatives of a modern tradition of the prose lyric (Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce).

Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre

The American Prose Poem

Livio Belloï

L'ambition de cet ouvrage est de proposer une esthétique de la forme " mosaïque " à travers les temps et à travers les arts. Dans le sillage du livre de Lucien Dällenbach, Mosaïques (Seuil, 2001), à qui le livre est dédié, les divers auteurs discutent, chacun pour une discipline différente, l'importance et l'impact de ce que l'on considère souvent comme la figure de base de l'esthétique contemporaine : la mosaïque. Plus particulièrement, ils examinent le statut d'une forme tiraillée entre l'homogénéité idéale de l'œuvre considérée comme un ensemble et la singularité des fragments qui la constituent. Croisant les arts et les disciplines, multipliant les exemples venus de traditions extrêmement diverses, les études rassemblées dans ce livre offrent la synthèse d'un champ de recherches bariolé et surprenant. Passant de l'action painting à la poésie, des nanonobjets numérisés aux écrans-mosaïques, de la musique sérielle au film peint ou encore du roman au cédérom, L'œuvre en morceaux examine des oeuvres et des démarches aussi diverses que celles de Stéphane Mallarmé, Stan Brakhage, Chris Marker, James Joyce, Jackson Pollock, Gertrude Stein, Edgard Varèse, etc.

esthétiques de la mosaïque

L'oeuvre en morceaux

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa's art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess.

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