Monthly Archives: September 2013

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Rebecca Stephens English Department Carlow College   Caughie, Pamela L. Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991.   Pamela L. Caughie’s Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself is a sustained and perhaps ruthless attack on dualism in Woolf scholarship. As […]

Kevin Kiernan Department of English University of Kentucky ENG102@ukcc.uky.edu   McGann, Jerome. The Textual Condition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1991. Pp. xiv + 208; 11 illustrations. Paper, $10.95.   Jerome McGann shows that he is still in top textual condition in this new collection of essays, published as the third title in the series, Princeton […]

Susan Schultz Department of English University of Hawaii-Manoa SCHULTZ@uhccvm.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu   Bernstein, Charles. A Poetics. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.   Perloff, Marjorie. Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.   Archibald MacLeish declared, “a poem should not mean but be,” but of course he didn’t mean it. MacLeish’s […]

Alan Aycock Department of Anthropology University of Lethbridge aycock@hg.uleth.ca   Tuman, Myron, ed. Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992. 300 pp. + illus/fig. $34.95 (US) cloth, $14.95 paper. (Review copy was an uncorrected proof; please note that quotations below may be inexact).   […]

Russell Potter English Department Colby College rapotter@colby.edu   Bataille, Georges. The Accursed Share, vols. II and III, tr. Robert Hurley. Cambridge, MA: Zone, 1991 (1992).   Pefanis, Julian. Heterology and the Postmodern. Durham: Duke UP, 1991.   The reception of Georges Bataille, as Julian Pefanis observes, has been belated in the English-speaking world– and not […]

Bill Millard  Department of English Rutgers University <millard@zodiac.rutgers.edu>     The New Music Seminar and New York Nights, June 15-21, 1992, New York City   At the close of four days of fractiousness, defensiveness, tepid consensus, heated debate, masturbation unabated, plugs for products, plugs for services, plugs for personalities, plugs for personae, plugs for personal […]

    (Excerpted from the Discussion Group PMC-talk@ncsuvm, 7/92-8/92)   Editors’ Note:   This issue of Postmodern Culture inaugurates a new feature, FROM: PMC-TALK. Two threads from recent discussion on PMC-TALK are included here, one concerning cladistics–the tree-structured organization of knowledge–and one concerning cut-ups–the human or automated re-organization of “found” text. This conjunction of topics […]

John Tranter 100026.1402@CompuServe.COM   [This essay was originally published in Meanjinno. 4 (1991), Melbourne University, Australia.]   In magazines and seminar rooms from Fife to Fresno, from Michigan to Melbourne, you can hear the raised voices and the breaking glass–they’re arguing about poetry again. A recent issue of Verse (an English/US magazine edited from Fife […]

William T. Vollmann   San Ignacio, Belize (1990) San Francisco, California U.S.A.. (1991) Agra, India (1990) San Francisco, California U.S.A. (1991) Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, Canada (1991) Interstate 80, California, U.S.A. (1992) Battambang, Cambodia (1991) San Ignacio, Belize (1990)   Two girls sailed under the fat green branches of trees that curved like […]

Marc Laidlaw Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Photographic Arcana, Correspondent of No Few Academies, Devoted Husband, &c.   Authorized by Marc Laidlaw   [Previously published in England as part of New Worlds 2, ed. David Garnett (Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1992).]   “Alas! That this speculation is somewhat too refined to be introduced into a […]

Annemarie Kemeny Department of English SUNY-Stony Brook   Sometimes the mouth is in gridlock. After all, I’m just the mouth piece. The whole is buried in an old plot with its corpse roaming. Sometimes it comes to haunt me, and I spill a little wine on the carpet to loosen its tongue. There are no […]

Rob Hardin DUPLICATE FOG AND DRESDEN CERUMEN ================================================================ There had been a series of | (Tuesday, July 9th, 1985: was spectacular killings west of | it something I’d said, or had New Haven. By all reports, | the individual molecules of the victims had been | styrene in Molly’s flaming imaginatively disfigured. The | plastic […]

Rikki Ducornet Department of English University of Denver   They set off in the early morning beneath an auspicious sky stubbled with clouds. From the start Fogginius the Saint took it into his crazed head that he would enliven the aboriginal road and astonish his companions with the knowledge he had accumulated over the years. […]

Ricardo Cruz Department of English University of Illinois-Normal PLANET ROCK   “I’m the DJ, he’s the rapper,” Chops said, pointing his big finger in my face as if the planet had just begun to spin.   It was night, and the white clouds laughed at Chops until their stomachs bust and they cried. Linton Johnson, […]

Robert Coover Department of English Brown University   (Cantus.) In the darkness, softly. A whisper becoming a tone, the echo of a tone. Doleful, a soft incipient lament blowing in the night like a wind, like the echo of a wind, a plainsong wafting distantly through the windy chambers of the night, wafting unisonously through […]

Kathy Acker     My Father   Kathy says, For finally my father was coming back. As soon as the night turned black as the cunts of witches, he walked through our door.   Once he had settled down inside, with his pint and slippers, the cat nodding drowsily against his shoulder, he told me […]

Larry McCaffery Department of English San Diego State University   Dedication: For Ronald Sukenick and William T. Vollmann   The Final Measurement: Guest-Editor’s Remarks Prefacing Postmodern Culture‘s Special Fiction Issue Devoted to Postmodern Fiction   I. *Epigraphs* I. 1 Was there no end to anything? When would he reach the final measurement? William T. Vollmann, […]