Writing Surfaces - Selected Fiction of John Riddell (Paperback, New)

In Writing Surfaces , derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell's work. Riddell's poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry mixed with fiction and drawings. Riddell's oeuvre fell out of popular attention, but it has recently garnered interest among poets and critics engaged with media studies (especially studies of the typewriter) and experimental writing. Riddell is best known for his short fiction pieces "H" and "Pope Leo: El Elope," a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol. However, his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions. Riddell's work embraces game play, unreadability and illegibility, procedural work, non-representational narrative, photocopy degeneration, collage, handwritten texts, and gestural work. His self-aware and meta-textual short fiction challenges the limits of machine-based composition and his reception as a media-based poet. With media studies increasingly turning to "media archaeology" and the reading and study of antiquated, analogue-based modes of composition (as typified by the photocopier and the fax machine as well as the typewriter), Riddell is a perfect candidate for further appreciation and study by new generations of readers, authors, and scholars.

General

Imprint:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	February 2013
Editors:	Derek Beaulieu • Lori Emerson
Authors:	John Riddell
Dimensions:	228 x 230 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	164
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-55458-828-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55458-828-6
Barcode:	9781554588282

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