Collage,
Collaboration & Bookish
Beasts
SPECIAL TOPICS IN
WRITING / ENGL 497:002 / FALL 2006
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On this page I will post
additional reading or modifications to assignments
for grad students enrolled in this course. Here is a bibliography to help you with
respond to assignments.
For Nov 12: Cancelled Text/Erasure:
More on Ronald Johnson & Radi Os:
More on Tom Phillips & A Humument:
- Please read the Hayles essay on
electronic reserve
I'm
not sure this is an erasure text; if not, it certainly resembles one.
And in any case, it raises some interesting possibilities for how
erasure might be used. You'll have to pick her name off the contents
page of Fascicle's first
issue:
28 Sept: Here are the materials I
have placed on Reserve.
Drucker,
Johanna. Figuring
the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics. NY: Granary
Books,
1998. See especially: The Art of the Written Image, The Visual Line,
Experimental/Visual/Concrete.
- - - . The Century of Artists’ Books. New York: Granary Books, 1995.
- - - . Word Made Flesh. New York: Granary Books, 1996.
[1989] The whole class
will be asked to look at this book, so it has a short circulation time.
Grimm, Reinhold. "Poems and/as Pictures: A Quick Look at Two and Half
Millennia of Ongoing Aesthetic Intercourse." In his From Ode to
Anthem:
Problems of Lyric Poetry. Ed. Grimm & Jost Hermund. Madison: University
of Wisconsin,
1989. 3-85.
Hayles, N. Katherine. “A Humument as Technotext: Layered Topographies.”
Writing
Machines. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2002. 72-99. .
Perloff, Marjorie. "The Invention of Collage." In The Futurist
Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture. Chicago: University of Chicago,
1986. An important
reading for understanding what collage is, and does.
Sheeler, Jessie. Little Sparta: The
Garden
of Ian Hamilton
Finlay. Photographs by
Andrew Lawson. London:
Frances Lincoln, 2003.
14 Sept :
For next week, our introduction to Visual Poetry, please add these
readings, all from Ubuweb:
Gomringer: "From Line to Constellation." Link is on the Gomringer page.
Finlay: "Letter to Pierre Garnier." Link is on the Finlay page.
Roland Greene: "The Concrete Historical." Link is at the bottom of the
Early Visual Poetry page.
Optional: Mary Ellen Stolt. The whole class is reading her general
introduction to Concrete Poetry: A
World View. You may want to read additional chapters.
14 Sept :
You have no additional reading for tonight. If you are interested in
Flarf, you should follow up by reading the Tost / Hoy exchange, or
other discussion on line.
3 Sept :
This link will take you to lengthy notes from an excellent book,
Leonard Diepeveen's Changing
Voices: The Modern Quoting Poem. University of Michigan Press,
1993. http://mason.gmu.edu/~stichy/CVCQuoting.html
In class we will use Diepeveen's
concepts to discuss the reading and making of quoting and collage
poems: texture, gap, the two-stepped reading experience, Cubist &
sculptural analogues, collage as nonmimetic art, & the various ways
poetic voice is constructed or experienced.
You may also want to read these paragraphs by Charles Altieri, in which
he is thinking about collage as a
method of composition and a way of relating mind to object in a
poem -- not necessarily about using found material in the writing of a
poem. http://mason.gmu.edu/~stichy/CVCCollage.html
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