Category: Volume 20 – Number 1 – September 2009
Notes on Contributors
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Heidi R. Bean is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. She is the co-editor of Poetry after Cultural Studies, an anthology of critical essays forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. Her essays, reviews, and interviews related to the intersections of theater, performance, and poetry have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre […]
Cross-Media Criticism: Postwar American Poetry-With-Cinema
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Christophe Wall-Romana (bio)University of Minnesotawallr007@umn.edu Review of: Daniel Kane, We Saw The Light: Conversations Between The New American Cinema and Poetry. Iowa City: Iowa UP, 2009. Kane’s book partakes of the renewed interest in contemporary humanities for the study of cross-medium exchanges, particularly involving literature, pioneered in the 1970s and somewhat marginalized by the […]
Feeling Well
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Michael D. Snediker (bio)Queen’s Universitysnediker@queensu.ca Review of: Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. It strikes me as both salubrious and unsurprising that after several decades of theorizing negative affect, melancholy, and trauma, the academy has turned its attention to the likes of positive affect, happiness, and optimism. As I’ve argued elsewhere, […]
Terror, Representation, and Postmodern Lessons in Hitler Studies
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Alan Nadel (bio)University of Kentuckyamnade2@email.uky.edu Review of: Karen Engle, Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens UP, 2009. Print. Jeffrey Melnick, 9/11 Culture. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print. Marc Redfield, The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror. New York: Fordham UP, 2009. Print. Phillip E. […]
Modes of Luxurious Walking
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Apple Zefelius Igrek (bio)Seattle Universityigreka@seattleu.edu Review of: Allan Stoekl, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007. If there is a single, obsessive object of thought in Georges Bataille – from Guilty (1944/1988) and Blue of Noon (1957/1978) to his magnum opus The Accursed Share (1949/1988) – it is the […]
Living Antagonistically: Lorenzo Fabbri’s Domesticating Derrida
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Timothy Campbell (bio)Cornell Universitycampbell@cornell.edu Review of: Lorenzo Fabbri, The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction. Trans. Daniele Manni, London: Continuum, 2008. Print. To choose security is to choose death. That such a lesson comes at the expense of Richard Rorty in a book on the relation of French deconstruction to American pragmatism is […]
The Poet’s Theater of Fiona Templeton: An Environmental View
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James Sherry (bio)jamestsherry@verizon.net Abstract Fiona Templeton’s play YOU-The City was originally produced for an audience of one in the Times Square neighborhood of New York City. The theatrical event presents an ecosystem where connections and logistics predominate over character and plot. It establishes a peer relationship between actors, audience, and their interactions that finds expression throughout […]
Performing Ketjak: The Theater of the Observed
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Nasser S. Hussain (bio)Leeds Metropolitan Universitynassershussain@gmail.com Abstract This essay takes as its focus Ron Silliman’s 1978 marathon street-side reading of his long poem Ketjak in San Francisco, and examines the “special effects” of a poet’s theatre when it is extended beyond the physical and ideological boundaries of the traditional, contemporary poetry reading. When in the […]
Carla Harryman’s Non/Representation and the Ethics of Dispersive Performance
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Heidi R. Bean (bio)Bridgewater State Universityheidi.bean@bridgew.edu Contemporary poet’s theater audiences might best be characterized by community rupture: each member experiences an individual identification in the collective space of the theater. This essay takes a closer look at this audience formation through the work of Carla Harryman, a poet-playwright associated with the San Francisco branch […]
This Theater is a Strange Hole: Mac Wellman’s Poetics of Apparence
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Karinne Keithley Syers (bio)CUNY Graduate Centerkarinnekeithley@gmail.com Abstract Mac Wellman’s theater is filled by a weird array of voices that are neither strictly human, nor even strictly material. These pseudosolid voices map a topological obsession with holes, hollows, and the filling up of space by emptiness. This essay explores Wellman’s theater as a “strange hole,” where […]
Poet’s Theater: An Introduction
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Heidi R. Bean (bio)Bridgewater State Universityheidi.bean@bridgew.edu Laura Hinton (bio)City College of New Yorklaurahinton12@gmail.com This special issue of Postmodern Culture takes up a subject until now only rarely discussed in the annals of academic scholarship: that of contemporary American poet’s theater. But what exactly is a “poet’s theater”? Is it primarily a type of […]