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Category Archive: Books

Art, Poetry and Erasure

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In the mid-20th century, poets and artists started taking existing texts and images and then redacting and erasing them to form new ones.

July 1, 2019 Art, Books, Features, Home

Towards a Minor Poetry: Reading Twentieth-Century French Poetry with Deleuze–Guattari and Bakhtin

This article argues that the term ‘minor poetry’ gains an additional relevance for experimental twentieth-century poetry which grapples with its own generic identity, deterritorializing established conceptions of poetry, and making ‘minor’ the major poetic discourses on which it is contingent.

June 30, 2019 Academic Writing, Books, Home

“In Your Own Words”: Intertextuality and Erasure in Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir

This article considers the poetry of Jacques Roubaud, a member of the Oulipo whose constraint-based writing techniques often involve the revision and deformation of source texts.

June 13, 2019 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Split Opinions: Rachel Cusk and the “Outline” Trilogy

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Cusk flags up a great truth: other people’s conversations will only ever be filtered through the interpretive prism of the listener.

June 12, 2019 Books, Features, Home

Annie Ernaux: Redefining Autobiography

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The desire to carve out an “I” from a “we” — an individual self from a collective history — is a futile gesture.

May 5, 2019 Books, Home

Review: “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis

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Autobiography, Louis reflects, is a luxury the working class are rarely afforded.

April 6, 2019 Books, Home

#PoetsofInstagram: Tired Clichés or a New Lease of Life for Poetry?

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Among the cats and sunsets and carefully curated cappuccino shots, Instagram finds itself home to a new literary phenomenon: Instagram poetry.

April 4, 2019 Books, Features, Home

Review: “Running Upon the Wires” by Kate Tempest

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The book’s three-part structure, moving from “End” and “Middle” to “Beginning,” marks a departure from the well-trodden path of the broken-hearts poets club.

March 15, 2019 Books, Home

Review: “Adèle” by Leïla Slimani

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While the promise of a steamy romp through well-to-do Parisian society might help sell “Adèle,” this is not where the book’s originality lies.

March 6, 2019 Books, Home

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