{"product_id":"interruptions-gerald-l-bruns-9780817359065","title":"Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of fragmentary--or interrupted--writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInterruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, \u003c\/i\u003eGerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words, and their freedom from rule-governed hierarchies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruns opens the book with a short history of the fragment as a distinctive feature of literary modernism in works from Gertrude Stein to Paul Celan to present-day authors. The study progresses to the later work of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett, and argues, controversially, that Blanchot's writings on the fragment during the 1950s and early 1960s helped to inspire Beckett's turn toward paratactic prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study also extends to works of poetry, examining the radically paratactic arrangements of two contemporary British poets, J. H. Prynne and John Wilkinson, focusing chiefly on their most recent, and arguably most abstruse, works. Bruns also offers a close study of the poetry and poetics of Charles Bernstein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterruptions\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with two chapters about James Joyce. First, Bruns tackles the language of \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, namely the break-up of words themselves, its reassembly into puns, neologisms, nonsense, and even random strings of letters. Second, Bruns highlights the experience of mirrors in Joyce's fiction, particularly in \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, where mirrored reflections invariably serve as interruptions, discontinuities, or metaphorical displacements and proliferations of self-identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald L. Bruns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817359060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817359065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Gerald L. Bruns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086961848575,"sku":"9780817359065","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96678445-ed48-4ac8-916a-2bcea902aefd.jpg?v=1769097501","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/interruptions-gerald-l-bruns-9780817359065","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}