When I emailed Lisa Ede and told her I’d like to meet on Monday, I was planning on shooting off perhaps up to a dozen ideas about what my seminar project would be for this class. However, last night I was reading:
Olsen, Lance. “Avant-Crit and the Advent of Theory in a Musical Idiom: A Polylogue with Larry McCaffery.” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Studies 4, 1998. The Future of Narrative. 556-602.
The way Olsen played with forms in this interview, and the way this playing with forms enhanced the discussion, or polylogue, between him and McCaffery was amazing, and I was drawn back to last spring when I took Experimental Narratives with David Zimmerman. In that class, we read:
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Dictionary of Modern Anguish by RM Berry
Everyday Psychokillers by Lucy Corin
f/32 by Eurudice
Girl Imagined by Chance by Lance Olsen
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
KOOLAIDS: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket
Letters to Wendy’s by Joe Wenderoth
Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
I pretty much made that list for future reference, in case I wanted to look back at it later, and I could possibly use some of those texts as resources in this seminar paper. I don’t really know the direction of this paper yet – I’m going to be doing some general reading in the area before deciding how to focus my scope. Lisa suggested some resources, which I’m going to list here (because it’s easier to compile them here than keep a piece of paper):
The journal Pre/Text
Victor Vitanza (sp?)
Winston Weathers article (Lisa is going to get this for me)
Karl Leggo’s “95 Questions” (Lisa is going to get this for me)
Johndan Johnson-Eiolola Troubling the Angels
Patty Lather and co-author (book title unsure)
Kaplan (who wrote about languages having different organizational structure; English linear, Arabic circular)
Anne Wysocki, Self, Eilola, Sirc Writing New Media
Laurence Shandy’s Tristram Shandy, and 18th century novel that has weird typographic styles
Mary Pratt’s essay, “Art of the Contact Zone,” found at http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/2504/pratt.html
“What is an Author?”, essay by either Barthes or Foucault (sp?)
Lunsford and Ede’s Singular Text / Plural Authors – Chapter on history of authorship and check references
Check out information on the first woman writer (what style did she write in?): http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/poetsplaywrightswriters/f/1stwomanauthor.htm
Eastgate Fiction: http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Fiction.html (particularly Michael Joyce)
Stumbled over this post ego-surfing–I wanted to clarify the book title in your list; it’s _Nostalgic Angels_ (although I have to admit, I really like _Troubling the Angels_ and may use that at some point later….)
Also (if you haven’t tracked it down yet), “What is an Author” is Foucault. from (among other places) _Language, Counter-Memory, Practice_.
Oh how very cool!
And I think I can explain the title discrepancy. Patty Lather, a feminist educator, and her coauthor (whose name I can’t recall) have published a book called Troubling the Angels–can’t remember the subtitle. It’s a study of women with AIDS. It’s very sophisticated theoretically and methodologically: the women were given the opportunity to comment on the way they are represented, for instance. It’s also innovative in terms of its structure, writing style with multiple columns, etc.
Lisa