Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
301 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Approximate: past to present. The killers / Kathy Acker ; The virgin denotes / Gail Scott ; Long note on new narrative / Robert Gluck ; Form as response to doubt / Lydia Davis ; Narrativity / Aaron Shurin ; The person in the world / Renee Gladman -- Dislocation. The life of the unknown / Pamela Lu ; Committing the fault / Rob Halpern ; In defence of forgetfulness / X. I. Selene ; Echoes enough of echoes of enough of me / Nathalie Stephens -- My other self. Hunger - technology - emotion / Chris Kraus ; Objective hazard / Anne Stone ; The day outlying / Douglas A. Martin ; 'Delirious, always becoming' / Doug Rice ; Poison / Kevin Killian -- Methods. Why poetry failed me and what prose is trying to do for my writing and me / Magdalena Zurawski ; "Text" and the site of writing / Jeff Derksen ; On performance, narrative, mnemotechnique, glue and solvent / Corey Frost ; Widows and orphans / Nicole Markotic ; A few thoughts on beautiful thinking / Christian Bok ; Notes on narrativity / Steve McCaffery -- The novel. How I wrote Gardener of stars, a novel / Carla Harryman ; Telling tales / Lynne Tillman ; Soft links / Nicole Brossard ; Long and social / Eileen Myles ; Narrating / Leslie Scalapino -- Resistance. On character / Heriberto Yepez ; Last exit to Victoria (five mins.. of murder alone with Wigger and 'Bloodland') / Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite ; Experimentalism / Camille Roy ; All New Yorker stories / Mary Burger ; Narrative occupation and uneven enclosure / Taylor Brady -- A story is a storage. Hollywood celluloid nuke madness / Bruce Boone ; The monster comic / Derek McCormack ; Incidents of time travel / Laura Moriarty -- The sentence. Lucite (a didactic) / Lisa Robertson ; The real story of 'O' / Betsy Andrews ; Proceed queerly: the sentence as compositional unit / Kathy Lou Schultz -- Shiver. Low culture / Dodie Bellamy ; Nostalgic / D. L. Alvarez ; Narrative transfiguration / Robin Tremblay-McGaw ; The tell-tale heart: Dennis Cooper interviewed by Robert Gluck -- The buzz of alternate meanings. The avenue / Laird Hunt ; Narrative as determination of the future anterior / Michael du Plessis ; A narrative of resistance / Kari Edwards ; What story will love you like I do? / Aja Couchois Duncan ; What is the story here? / Daphne Marlatt ; Hey, narrativity / Paul VanDeCarr. |
Subject |
Canadian literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Authorship.
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Added Author |
Burger, Mary.
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ISBN |
1552451429 (pbk.) |
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9781552451427 (pbk.) |
Standard No. |
NLC 20049055550 |
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YDXCP 2261566 |
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AU@ 000026885279 |
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