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Off the Page: Literary and Cultural Criticism as Multimedia Performance

Off the Page: Literary and Cultural Criticism as Multimedia Performance

Lavazzi, Tom

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPerformance Art

ISBN10: 160235247X
ISBN13: 9781602352476
Publisher: Parlor Pr Lcc
Published: Nov 24 2019
Pages: 532
Weight: 2.09
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

OFF THE PAGE blends lyric, theoretic/philosophic, autobiographical, and documentary forms of writing, and then plays on these forms in the arrangement, structure, and visual appearance of the text while also extending this textual performance 'off the page' into multimedia mise en scène. The book's approach to literary and cultural criticism is based on a synthesis of tendencies in postmodern critical and creative writing. Since the 1960s and 1970s, inspired partly by experiments with intermedia art (especially performances by the international alliance of composers and visual artists, Fluxus) and the advent in America of ethnopoetics (investigations into the artistic and/or ritual practices of non-mainstream ethnic cultures--especially Native American--within Western culture), an emphasis on text as performance has emerged. However, while the avant-garde of American poetics in the post WWII era has been concerned with performing texts, many postmodern American and European literary, cultural, and performance critics and theorists have concentrated on experimentation with textual performance--performative writing.

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