The historicity of experience
Subtitle: modernity, the avant- garde, and the event
By: Krzysztof Ziarek.
Series: Avant-garde & modernism studies; Avant-garde and modernism studies.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Experimental poetry -- History and criticism.; Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism.; Literature -- Philosophy.
Description: In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry. Ziarek explores, through selective readings of avant-garde poetry, the key aspects of the radical critique of experience: technology, everdayness, event, and sexual difference. To that extent, The Historicity of Experience is less a book about the avant-garde than a critique of experience through the avant-garde. Ziarek reads the avant-garde in dialogue with the work of some of the major critics of modernity (Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Jean-François Lyotard, and Luce Irigaray) to show how avant-garde experiments bear critically on the issue of modern experience and its technological organization. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments, vii; title: Introduction: The Avant-Garde as a Critique of Experience, 3; title: Part One. Rethinking the Experience of Modernity:; title: Art, Technology, and Sexual Difference; title: i Reproducing History: Benjamin and Heidegger; title: on the Work of Art in Modernity, 33; title: 2 Contestations of the Everyday: The Avant-Garde, Technology,; title: and the Critique of Aesthetics, 86; title: 3 Sexuate Experience: Irigaray and the Poetics of Sexual Difference, 116; title: Part Two. The Avant-Garde Moment in a Transatlantic Frame:; title: Poetics, Sexuality, and Revolution; title: 4 Gertrude Stein's Poetics of the Event:; title: Avant-Garde, the Ordinary, and Sexual Difference, ISI; title: 5 History and Revolution: Khlebnikov's Futurist Revision; title: of Modern Rationality in Zangezi, I86; title: Part Three. From the Avant-Garde to Language Poets; title: 6 How to Write the Everyday in Eastern Europe:; title: Miron Bialoszewski's "Minor" Poetry, 225; title: 7 "A Sounding of Uncertainty":; title: Susan Howe's Poetic Gendering of History, 263; title: Beyond the Negative: An Afterword on the Avant-Garde, 294; title: Notes, 30I; title: Bibliography, 343; title: Index, 353.