Russell Hoban

Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Intermediality: Middling and Meddle English

Holly Pester September 1, 2012 No Comments Anthony Burgess broadsides ballads. rhetoric Caroline Bergvall catalogue Chaucerian English contemporary cross-disciplinarity Dick Higgins found-texts gallery intermediality language linguistics Meddle English mediation Michael Serres Middling English poetry prosody Riddey Walker Russell Hoban Southampton Steven Connors The Shorter Chaucer Tales

A project for poetry and text-based art has emerged over the past two years that tests the limits of what we broadly term as intermedia. The work is Caroline Bergvall’s combined ‘Middling English’, an exhibition at the John Hasard gallery in Southampton in 2010…

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Issue 1.2 Previous Issues

On Nuclear Criticism

Christopher Daley July 1, 2012 2 Comments anti-Iraq protest apocalyptic literature Cold War contemporary literature Cormac McCarthy deterrent Diacritics Guide to Armageddon Jacques Derrida nuclear criticism Protect and Survive Riddley Walker Russell Hoban Threads

In 1984, the journal Diacritics set out to define what it labelled as the developing academic terrain of ‘nuclear criticism’. The opening section of the journal entitled…

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