Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed. The book studies writers who employed literary collage during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, some whose works have been intensely analyzed from this perspective (William S. Burroughs and Walter Benjamin), but also some whose collage-writing style has recently been investigated by writers, being usually placed under the umbrella term of artist books (Stelio Maria Martini). Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Chapter 1: The Long History of Collage: From Early Modern Commonplace Books to Twenty-First-Century Experimental Writing Introduction Collage Before Modernism Commonplacing Against the Cut: Postmodern Copying as Commonplacing Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: ‘Little Forms’ of the Avant-Garde: Walter Benjamin’s Einbahnstraße ( One-Way Street, 1928) Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Weaponizing the Cut: William S. Burroughs’s Transmedial Experiments Transmedial Collage? Cut-ups as Transmedial Resistance Sound, Tape, and Noise Viral Both/And Transmediality Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: “Un’appendice sensibile del cervello”: Stelio Maria Martini’s Collage between Neurosis and Sensitivity Collage as a Scheme of Sensitivity Pre-collage: Schemi and Neurosentimental as Intrusions “L’impassibile naufrago”: Two Examples Conclusions: Collage as Apperception Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: Collage and Late Style The Concept of Late Style The Poetics of Collage Versus Late Style The Notecard Quartet Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: “A heuristic of thought itself”: Montage, writing, method Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Collage with Words and Images or the Empiricist Turn in the Arts The Problem: Empirical Data The Solution: Logical Empiricism/Positivism of the Vienna School Notes Bibliography Index The book fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed.