Thurston, N (2017) Reading the Illegible. Amodern, 6.
Abstract
Editing this special issue of Amodern was done, one could say, under the influence, in a reader-to-reader relationship with Craig Dworkin’s 2003 monographic study of “a tradition of poetic illegibility.” [1] Having read for over a decade now under the influence of his poetry and critical work, I borrowed the title from Dworkin’s book. What is more, in keeping with his impetus as projected there and extended in his most recent collection of essays, No Medium, I called for contributions that could think through the inter-relatedness of two things in an ambitious manner: the pressure put on the poetic imagination (for better and worse) by limit-cases of il/legibility; and technical and conceptual innovations in reading practices that have somehow shifted the horizonal divide-lines between the legible and illegible via a relationship to academic research. [2]
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2017 11:19 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 11:19 |
Published Version: | http://amodern.net/article/reading-the-illegible/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Amodern |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117504 |