Incarnations of material textuality : from modernism to liberature

Incarnations of material textuality : from modernism to liberature

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Incarnations of material textuality : from modernism to liberature

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title:	Incarnations of material textuality : from modernism to liberature
editor:	Bazarnik Katarzyna , Curyłło-Klag Izabela
date of publication :	2014
place of publication : name of publisher:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
pages:	VIII, 154
ISBN:	1-4438-6404-8 978-1-4438-6404-6
language:	English
abstract in English:	Liberature – coined from the Latin liber – is simultaneously a movement in contemporary Polish literature, and a term referring to literary works that integrate text and material features of the book into an organic whole in accordance with the author’s design. The present volume collects essays inspired by this theoretical concept, first proposed by Polish poet Zenon Fajfer in 1999, but soon picked up and elaborated on by international scholars. As noted by the contributing authors, preceding Jessica Pressman’s idea of “bookishness” and coinciding with N. Katherine Hayles’ fundamental writings, liberature appeared at the end of the 20th century, “as if to resume and systematize the intuitions and provocative statements” of writers concerned with the future of the book. It fits into a wider turn towards the recognition of the embodied nature of information in anthropology, literary, textual, media and AI studies. Yet its distinctness consists in the fact that it was suggested by a creative writer, and that it proposes to see the authorially-shaped materiality of writing in terms of a literary genre. The essays collected here present the modernist roots and inspirations of liberature, address the semantics of typography and the question of materiality of literary writing, and explore how the "abstract body of the printed book is transformed into an experience of embodiment." The volume is completed with a reprint of Fajfer’s seminal essays with a view to making them more available to English-speaking readers.
keywords in Polish:	liberatura, materialność tekstu literackiego, modernizm, awangarda, literatura eksperymentalna, typografia, manifest literacki, gatunek literacki, tekstualność, ksiązka, Zenon Fajfer, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Marshal McLuhan, Bruno Schulz, John Cage
keywords in English:	liberature, materiality of the literary text, modernism, avant-garde, experimental literature, typography, literary manifesto, literary genre, textuality, book, Zenon Fajfer, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Marshal McLuhan, Bruno Schulz, John Cage
number of pulisher's sheets:	8
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
type:	book
subtype:	monography

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