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Reading the Illegible
Professor Craig Dworkin
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Description for Reading the Illegible
Paperback. This is a critical approach to reading texts rendered variously illegible - through erasures, excisions, overprintings and rearrangements - by major 20th-century artists and writers. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
A poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations and violations, and how the "illegible" results are to be read, is the subject Craig Dworkin takes up in this ambitious work.
In his scrutiny of selected works, and with reference to a rich variety of textual materials--from popular and scientific texts to visual art, political and cultural theories, and experimental films--Dworkin proposes a new way of apprehending the radical formalism of so-called unreadable ... Read more
A poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations and violations, and how the "illegible" results are to be read, is the subject Craig Dworkin takes up in this ambitious work.
In his scrutiny of selected works, and with reference to a rich variety of textual materials--from popular and scientific texts to visual art, political and cultural theories, and experimental films--Dworkin proposes a new way of apprehending the radical formalism of so-called unreadable ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810119277
SKU
V9780810119277
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About Professor Craig Dworkin
Craig Dworkin teaches in the English department at Princeton University.
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