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Reading and Writing Experimental Texts

Critical Innovations

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Deconstructs traditional literary criticism by introducing feminist and queer interventions
  • Offers innovative material for students, scholars, and professors in literature, creative writing, and academic writing at-large
  • Assembles voices of writers and scholars at every phase of their career, from undergraduate to senior professors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Critical Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Critical Play: An Introduction

      • Kristina Quynn, Robin Silbergleid
      Pages 3-28
    3. Ecological Echoing: Following the Footsteps

      • Diane P. Freedman
      Pages 29-43
    4. Carole Maso’s AVA and the Practice of Reading: Selves in Dialogue

      • Halli Beauprey, Robin Silbergleid
      Pages 45-62
    5. Expert Witness: Living in the Dirt

      • Melissa Mora Hidalgo
      Pages 63-81
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 293-301

About this book

This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism. The contributors, women scholars who range from undergraduate students to contingent faculty to endowed chairs, stage a critical dialogue that raises vital questions about the aims and forms of criticism— its discourses and politics, as well as the personal, institutional, and economic conditions of its production. Offering compelling feminist and queer readings of avant-garde twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, the essays included here are playful, performative, and theoretically savvy.

Written for students, scholars, and professors in literature and creative writing, Reading and Writing Experimental Texts provides examples for doing literary scholarship in innovative ways. These provocative readings invite conversation and community, reminding us that if the stakes of critical innovation are high, so are the pleasures.

Reviews

“An appeal for a fresh variety of scholarly work that “counts.” It never loses sight that the battleground for its war is the evaluation meeting and the third-year review, making it an important volume in a very practical sense to every scholar who is trying to decide between existing genres to work in, when they really should be focusing on texts, saying something new, and saying something better.” (Jason Kahler, orbit.openlibhums.org, 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Robin Silbergleid

  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Kristina Quynn

About the editors

Robin Silbergleid is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of multiple books, including the memoir Texas Girl and The Baby Book, a collection of poems. 

Kristina Quynn is Faculty of English and founding director of CSU Writes at Colorado State University. She has published on transatlantic women’s writing and Irish drama and film.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reading and Writing Experimental Texts

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Innovations

  • Editors: Robin Silbergleid, Kristina Quynn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58362-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58361-7Published: 19 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86388-7Published: 17 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58362-4Published: 03 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 301

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Culture and Gender

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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