Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Critical Contexts
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Front Matter
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Critical Readings
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Back Matter
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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
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