Literary Nonfiction. Film. Religion & Spirituality. How does one participate (read and write) from within the membranous precinct between our multiple bodies, from within the larger rhizomic field of resonances, where much is sounding and also unsounded? By employing various "divinatory generators" (instructions, methods, trances), the essays in IDEAL SUGGESTIONS: ESSAYS IN DIVINATORY POETICS genuflect to practices that celebrate engagement with uncertainty while cultivating strategies through which one might collaborate with both rupture and rapture.

"I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill."—Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women Writing The Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explores the ways in which women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers. Surveying the works of a variety of women writers—from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from different ethnic, national , racial, and economic backgrounds—this book treats their revisions of the Künstlerroman and their perceptions of the relationships between muse, artist, and audience in other genres. Suzanne W. ]ones and her collaborators seek to understand how representations of women artists and their poetics and politics are mediated by social and historical factors, including literary movements and theories of language. In doing so, they make an important contribution to the field of feminist scholarship, and generate new ways of understanding how the dynamics of creativity intersect with the dynamics of gender. Contributors to the volume are Ann Ardis, Alison Booth , Kathleen Brogan, Lynda Bundtzen, Pamela Caughie, Mary DeShazer, Linda Dittmar, Josephine Donovan, Susan Stanford Friedman , Gayle Greene, Linda Hunt, Katherine Kearns, Holly Laird, Estella Lauter, Z. Nelly Martinez, Jane Atteridge Rose, Margaret Diane Stetz, Renate Voris, and Mara Witzling. Writing The Woman Artist is a valuable new resource for scholars and students working in the fields of European and American literature and women's studies.

Invaluable guide to ancient Greek literature and literary theory through the representation of poetry and the figure of the poet.

Powerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry.

introduction by Charles Bernstein. Essays by Johanna Drucker.

This collection of essays locates Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the Poetics to Taristoltle's psychology and history, ethics an politics. There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure.

What is the importance of poetry? Why do we enjoy the experience of tragic distress? Does Roman tragedy reflect Aristotelian poetics? In what ways can "Poetics" be read and interpreted? These questions are discussed in this collection of essays on Aristotle's "Poetics".

Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study—a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics—this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of the contemporary. In these essays, the most interesting and distinguished theorists in the field renegotiate the contours of what might constitute "contemporary poetics," ranging from the historical advent of concrete poetry to the current technopoetics of cyberspace. Concerned with a poetics that extends beyond our own time, as a mere marker of present-day literary activity, their work addresses the limits of a writing "practice"—beginning with Stéphane Mallarmé in the late nineteenth century—that engages concretely with what it means to be contemporary. Charles Bernstein's Swiftian satire of generative poetics and the textual apparatus, together with Marjorie Perloff's critical-historical treatment of "writing after" Bernstein and other proponents of language poetry, provides an itinerary of contemporary poetics in terms of both theory and practice. The other essays consider "precursors," recognizable figures within the histories or prehistories of contemporary poetics, from Kafka and Joyce to Wallace Stevens and Kathy Acker; "conjunctions," in which more strictly theoretical and poetical texts enact a concerted engagement with rhetoric, prosody, and the vicissitudes of "intelligibility"; "cursors," which points to the open possibilities of invention, from Augusto de Campos's "concrete poetics" to the "codework" of Alan Sondheim; and "transpositions," defining the limits of poetic invention by way of technology.

"This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle, utilizing historical fact and the views of other critics to clarify how particular literary works are constructed and how those constructions lead to specific effects." -- Back cover.

Part 1. The essay and the world. 1. Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK) The essay as phenomenology ; 2. James Corby (University of Malta) An essay on the post-literary ; 3. Neil Badmington (Cardiff University, UK) Brief scenes: Roland Barthes and the essay ; 4. Nicole B. Wallack (Columbia University, USA) The 'subversive Possibilitiesp of the essay for public intellectuals ; 5. Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen, Norway) Is writing all over, or just dispersed? Digital essayism in TRINA, A DESIGN FICTION -- Part 2. The essay and the self ; 6. Ivan Callus (University of Malta) Tone and the essay ; 7. Jennifer Spinner (Saint Joseph's University, USA) What the periodical press made possible: women essayists in the eighteenth century ; 8. Rachel Baldacchino (University of Malta) Otherness and the essay in the pacifist work of Vernon Lee ; 9. Aaron Aquilina (Lancaster University, UK) Margins and marginality: Jean Genet and the queer essay ; 10. Michael Askew (University of East Anglia, UK) The essay and the 'I': Eliot Weinberger's Transformation of the authorial self -- Part 3. The essay, form and the essayistic. 11. R. Eric Tippin (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA) At the limits of Fixité : The essay and the aphorism ; 12. Jason Childs (Independent scholar) Assaying the novel ; 13. Allen Durgin (Columbia University, USA) Wallace Stevens, Audre Lorde and the queer performativity of the essay ; 14. Maria Frendo (University of Malta) Transgression as transcendence: essayistic poetics in selected works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Joseph Vella ; 15. Bob Cowser Jr. (St. Lawrence University, USA) Hersey, resnais and representing Hiroshima: toward an essayistic historiography.