Fictocritical Strategies Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation |
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| Author:
| Haas, Gerrit |
| Series title: | Lettre Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8376-3704-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2017 |
| Publisher: | transcript Verlag
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately,...
More DescriptionGerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.