In:
Orbis Litterarum, Wiley, Vol. 74, No. 3 ( 2019-06), p. 173-190
Abstract:
The “uncreative writing” movement has quickly and firmly established its position as one of the prime examples for a genuinely twenty‐first‐century poetics. With regards to stylistics on the level of the text, the most glaring feature of works like Kenneth Goldsmith's “Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Jacques Derrida” (a musical reading/rendition of parts of Derrida's Of Grammatology ) or Vanessa Place's “The laugh of the Minotaur” (an almost word‐for‐word retyping of Hélène Cixous's “The laugh of the Medusa”) is, quite simply, not to have a personal literary style at all. Despite its first (non‐)appearance, this lack does not make the question of style obsolete—on the contrary: where other authors’ styles are stolen, the focus shifts to the specific styles of stealing themselves. This multilayered movement, the article argues, directly responds to a specific set of problems in post‐structuralist literary theory and provides a key contribution towards (re)conceptualizing what literary style is—or, rather, was—in the first place.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0105-7510
,
1600-0730
DOI:
10.1111/oli.2019.74.issue-3
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2026229-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
123397-X
SSG:
7,12
