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Exercises in Criticism
The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint
by Louis Bury
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Pub Date
Feb 17 2015
| Archive Date
Mar 31 2015
Description
Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint-based methods in order to write about constraint-based literature. By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues that contemporary American writers have, in their adoption of constraint-based methods, transformed such methods from apolitical literary laboratory exercises into a form of cultural critique, whose usage is surprisingly widespread, particularly among poets and “experimental” novelists. More, Bury’s own use of critical constraints functions as a commentary on how and why we write and talk about books, culture, and ideas.
Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint-based methods in order to write about constraint-based literature. By tracing the...
Description
Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint-based methods in order to write about constraint-based literature. By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues that contemporary American writers have, in their adoption of constraint-based methods, transformed such methods from apolitical literary laboratory exercises into a form of cultural critique, whose usage is surprisingly widespread, particularly among poets and “experimental” novelists. More, Bury’s own use of critical constraints functions as a commentary on how and why we write and talk about books, culture, and ideas.
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Advance Praise
"The creative criticism—or critical creativity—on display in Louis Bury’s Exercises in Criticism seems to me exactly what’s needed—or, for this reader anyway, most desirable—in literary inquiry today. Bury’s 'foregrounding [of] academic work as an indirect means of self-exploration' manages to expand both the self at stake and its many objects of obsession. Amidst all its clever experimentation, Bury’s book also offers real and deep thoughts about the legacy of the Oulipo, relations between capitalism and academia, the source and sustenance of intellectual investments throughout a life, and the web made by familial and political history. I laud its thoroughness, its play, its risks, its transmutation of dissatisfactions into art." —Maggie Nelson
"The creative criticism—or critical creativity—on display in Louis Bury’s Exercises in Criticism seems to me exactly what’s needed—or, for this reader anyway, most desirable—in literary inquiry...
Advance Praise
"The creative criticism—or critical creativity—on display in Louis Bury’s Exercises in Criticism seems to me exactly what’s needed—or, for this reader anyway, most desirable—in literary inquiry today. Bury’s 'foregrounding [of] academic work as an indirect means of self-exploration' manages to expand both the self at stake and its many objects of obsession. Amidst all its clever experimentation, Bury’s book also offers real and deep thoughts about the legacy of the Oulipo, relations between capitalism and academia, the source and sustenance of intellectual investments throughout a life, and the web made by familial and political history. I laud its thoroughness, its play, its risks, its transmutation of dissatisfactions into art." —Maggie Nelson
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9781628971057 |
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781628971057 |
| PRICE |
$35.00 (USD)
|
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