Bless Borderblur Poetics for its abundance of obscure ephemeral publications, collected from public and private archives of a paratradition in the field of Canadian Literature, bless its exhumation of this space outside of normative lingual habits and conventions. Blast the normative tradition! Dr. Schmaltz provides a rare critical examination of the radical fringe in the context of its own internal logic. Bless this book! The scholarship is sound and makes an impressive contribution to the field—expanding the terrain of Canadian Literature into the realm of the Avant-Garde—and the field of Avant-Garde literature even further into Canada.
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- Pages
- 320
- Published in
- Calgary, CA
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- List of Figures 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Epigraph 16
- Introduction 18
- Canons and Controversies: Literary Traditions andIntermediality in Canada 23
- Bordering the Book: Critical Parameters 39
- From Here to There: A Brief Chapter Outline 45
- 1 | Bordering the Blur 48
- In Search of Experience: Borderblur Poetics in Canada 52
- Dropping Off the Borders: An International Network of Alternative Poetics 63
- Intermedial Poesis in the Electric Age 68
- “Fuck the Avant-Garde”: Borderblur and Theories ofthe Avant-Garde 74
- 2 | Concrete Poetry 86
- Beginning Again: A Confluence of Encounters 90
- Canadian Concrete Poetry and the Electric Age 94
- Against Manipulation: Advertising and Consumer Culture 97
- Breaking the Typing Machines 106
- (Moving) Images: Film, Television, Photography 120
- 3 | Sound Poetry 137
- Questioning the Cadence: Sound, Nation, Affect 140
- A Network of Sonic Affiliations 143
- Language and Sound in the Electronic Age 156
- Affect and Extension: Listening to Canadian Sound Poetry 164
- 4 | Kinetic Poetry 182
- Toward a Theory of Kinetic Poetics 186
- Kinetic Art and Literature: Borderblur’s Kinetic Context 194
- Kinetics and Poetics in Canada 202
- Extending the Codex 208
- Games and Puzzles 216
- Immersive and Environmental Works 224
- CODA | Intermedial Poetry in Canada Today 234
- Notes 244
- Notes to Chapter Introduction 244
- Notes to Chapter 1 247
- Notes to Chapter 2 252
- Notes to Chapter 3 256
- Notes to Chapter 4 261
- Notes to CODA 265
- Bibliography 266
- Index 290
- Back Cover 298
