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An introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work.

An exploration of 'pataphysics, or the science of imaginary solutions. It covers the tangled history of 'pataphysics, discussing the tension between science and poetics, in order to demonstrate that 'pataphysics constitutes an intrinsic, but neglected, cornerstone of postmodernity itself.

Born in Oran, Algeria, the author spent her childhood in France's former colony. This title is her memoir of a preadolescence that shaped her with intense feelings of alienation, yet also contributed, in a paradoxically essential way, to her development as a writer and philosopher.

With a combination of classic and new essays and perspective on the theoretical avant-garde/modernism debate in the United States, Sheppard's volume provides an insight into scholarly discourse on this debated subject.

Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec's texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation.

Examining Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, this book asks questions and explores fresh ways of reading Stein. It also examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript.

Guy Davenport, an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. This critical study of Davenport elucidates the depths of his fiction and its poetic precedents.

A memoir-novel that narrates an incident - the premature death of a first-born child, a Down syndrome baby left in the care of the clinic in Algeria. This story uses the event to probe the family history and relationship with the mother, a refugee from Nazi Germany; the dead father, after whom the baby is named; and the medical-student brother.

Featuring contributions from the theorists in the field, this work aims to renegotiate the contours of what might constitute ""contemporary poetics,"" ranging from the historical advent of concrete poetry to the technopoetics of cyberspace.It addresses the limits of a writing ""practice"" that engages concretely with what it means to be contemporary.

Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. This book focuses on how Fahlstrom's early experiments with concrete poetry influenced his later work in the visual arts.

Focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. This book also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works.

In these essays McCaffrey works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice - to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical principles against which it must be read.

This work argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century.

Peter Burger here considers what several seminal thinkers - Bataille, Blanchot, Barthes, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Heidegger, as well as novelist Michel Tournier - owe to Hegel's master-slave dialectic, and measures their accomplishment against the avant-garde project.

Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this work identifies a counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. It traces a continuity of thought and practice through the different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage.

Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against ""degenerate art,"" and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. This book looks at how the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war.

One of the most innovative and respected figures of his literary generation in Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has also become a major presence in international debates about literature and social change. This text considers Enzensberger's poetical texts.

Among the avant-garde of the early 20th century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and modernism debates. This work reassesses the heyday and afterlife of expressionist and Dada productions as a prolonged crisis of literary culture.

Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism.