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The Body of Writing : An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction /

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This book examines four postmodern texts whose authors play with the material conventions of “the book”: Joseph McElroy’s Plus (1977), Carole Maso’s AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula’s VAS (2003). By demonstrating how each of these works calls for an affirmative e...

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Main Author: Chevaillier, Flore, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Semiotics and literature.
Reading.
English language > Style.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Semiotique et litterature.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Anglais (Langue) > Stylistique.
Lecture.
American fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Erotic etudes : theory of the self and language
  • Semiotics and erotics in Joseph McElroy's Plus
  • "A certain pulsing" : the erotic page in Carole Maso's AVA
  • Erotics and corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE
  • Bodily and literary modifications in Steve Tomasula's VAS : an opera in Flatland.

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