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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination
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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics
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How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde
poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful
monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling
poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors)
has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction. This is not
a book about science fiction in and of itself, but it is a book
about the resonances of science-fiction tropes and ideas in poetic
language. The germ of Golston’s project is a throwaway line in
Robert Smithson’s Entropy and the New Monuments about how cinema
supplanted nature as inspiration for many of his fellow artists:
“The movies give a ritual pattern to the lives of many artists,
and this induces a kind of ‘low budget’ mysticism, which keeps
them in a perpetual trance.” Golston charts how the demotic
appeal of sci-fi, much like that of the B-movie, cross-pollinated
into poetry and other branches of the avant garde. Golston creates
what he calls a “regular Rube Goldberg machine” of a critical
apparatus, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Roman Jakobson, and Gilles
Deleuze. He starts by acknowledging that, per the important work of
Darko Suvin to situate science fiction critically, the genre is
premised on cognitive estrangement. But he is not interested in the
specific nuts and bolts of science fiction as it exists but rather
how science fiction has created a model not only for other poets
but also for musicians and landscape artists. Golston’s critical
lens moves around quite a bit, but he begins with familiar enough
subjects: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mina Loy, William S. Burroughs.
From there he moves into more “alien” terrain: Ed Dorn’s long
poem Gunslinger, the discombobulated work of Clark Coolidge. Sun
Ra, Ornette Coleman, and Jimi Hendrix all come under consideration.
The result of Golston’s restless, rich scholarship is the first
substantial monograph on science fiction and avant-garde poetics,
using Russian Formalism, Frankfurt School dialectics, and Deleuzian
theory to show how the avant-garde inherently follows the
parameters of sci fi, in both theme and form.
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Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Modern and Contemporary Poetics |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Michael Golston
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8173-6100-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8173-6100-6 |
Barcode: |
9780817361006 |
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