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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
Warren F. Motte
This is an amazing anthology of writings by members of the group known as Oulipo, including, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Put simply, this group, which was founded in Paris in 1960...
South Atlantic Review
This reader is truly impressed by Motte's capacity to present, in a clear fashion, material that is still new and 'difficult' to most of his readership.
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Love and Death in the American Novel
Leslie A. Fiedler
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work."
Los Angeles Times
It is not possible to read Leslie Fiedler's criticism without a sense of awe and excitement.
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Theory of Prose
Viktor Shklovsky, Benjamin Sher
Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian...
Washington Post Book World
"A rambling, digressive stylist, Shklovsky throws off brilliant aperçus on every page . . . Sixty-five years after it first appeared, Theory of Prose remains an exciting book: Like an architect's blueprint, it lays bare the joists and studs that hold up the house of fiction."
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Pop Poetics: Reframing Joe Brainard
Andy Fitch
Pop artists (painters and poets) often get praised or criticized for their use of low-brow commercial iconography. Yet either appraisal obscures the rigors of Pop serial design . . .
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When Blackness Rhymes With Blackness
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling "our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry."
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A Community Writing Itself
Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area
Sarah Rosenthal interviews contemporary experimental American writers about art and life.
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Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form
Neil Murphy
Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the...
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Finding a Form
William H. Gass
Scathing, lyrical, and hilarious by turns, this collection of essays by William H. Gass—perhaps our greatest critic and author—sounds a rallying cry against the steady encroachment of the banal and the lazy into the fields of fiction.
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Phantasms of Matter
In Gogol (and Gombrowicz)
Michal Oklot
An investigation into the problem of writing about matter in Nikolai Gogol's work and, indirectly, into the entire Neoplatonic tradition in Russian literature, this book is not intended to be an exhaustive historical survey of the concept of matter...
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Literature and Cinematography
Viktor Shklovsky, Irina Masinovsky
In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what art is, by implication he also quietly lays to waste the theories and people...
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