Blowing up Paper Bags to Pop: Joe Brainard's Almost-Autobiographical Assemblage
| العنوان: | Blowing up Paper Bags to Pop: Joe Brainard's Almost-Autobiographical Assemblage |
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| المؤلفون: | Andrew Fitch |
| المصدر: | Life Writing. 6:77-95 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Literature, History, Literature and Literary Theory, Poetry, Watson, business.industry, Poetics, Assemblage (composition), Narrative, Testimonial, business, Content (Freudian dream analysis), Yet another |
| الوصف: | Amidst Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson's ‘Fifty-two Genres of Life Narrative’ I aim to insert yet another mode—the Popography: a form of displaced autobiographical documentation derived from self-propulsive/self-obscuring reference to board games, soap operas, and celebrity scandals. As a case study of popography's ambiguous place in contemporary poetic discourse, I examine the secondary literature concerning poet-collagist Joe Brainard. In his startlingly intimate, yet abstractly structured texts, Brainard both adopts and problematises the position of the historically grounded literary-subject. Brainard's work, I argue, thus offers a timely antidote to the paradigmatic critical split that divides ‘testimonial’ from ‘language-based’ poetics. My overall point is that, just as classic content/form distinctions dissolved when art critics encountered the work of Warhol and his peers, so current ‘transparent’/‘opaque’ distinctions should be recalibrated in response to accessible/abstract poetry like Brainard's.... |
| تدمد: | 1751-2964 1448-4528 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f0dec2324acb528483a8e3a594da7022 https://doi.org/10.1080/14484520802550387 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........f0dec2324acb528483a8e3a594da7022 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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