Off the Page

Tom Lavazzi

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Off the Page offers a series of critical “scripts” exploring various cultural texts, and a working definition of performative criticism grounded in poststructuralist literary, cultural, and performance theory.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602352483
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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OFF THE PAGE Literary and Cultural Criticism as Multimedia Performance

TOM LAVAZZI

OFF THE PAGE

OFF THE PAGE

LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM AS MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

Texts and Scripts fromTEZ

Tom Lavazzi

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

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Names Lavazzi, Tom, - auho. | TEZ (Theae goup) Tile Off he page  lieay and culual ciicism as mulimedia  pefomance  exs and scips / Tom Lavazzi. Descipion Andeson, Souh Caolina  Palo Pess, [] | Seies  Aesheic ciical inquiy | Includes bibliogaphical efeences. |  Summay “Off he Page offes a seies of ciical “scips” exploing  vaious culual exs, and a woking definiion of pefomaive  ciicism gounded in possucualis lieay, culual, and  pefomance heoy. TOM LAVAZZI is Pofesso of English a  CUNY-Kingsboough and diecs he ciical pefomance goup TEZ  hp//www.ezpefomance.og”-- Povided by publishe. Idenifies LCCN 3 (pin) | LCCN 3 (ebook) | ISBN  3 (papeback) | ISBN 3 (hadcove) | ISBN  33 (pdf) | ISBN 3 (epub) Subjecs LCSH Ameican lieaue--Hisoy and ciicism. Classificaion LCC PS .L  (pin) | LCC PS (ebook) | DDC  .--dc3 LC ecod available a hps//lccn.loc.gov/3 LC ebook ecod available a hps//lccn.loc.gov/3

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Aesheic Ciical Inquiy Seies Edio Andea Feese

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Book Design David Blakesley Image manipulaions, Ellen La Foge,TEZ

Palo Pess, LLC is an independen publishe of scholaly and ade iles in pin and mulimedia fomas. This book is available in pape, cloh and eBook fo- mas Rom Palo Pess on he Wold Wide Web a hp//www.palopess.com o hough online and bick-and-moa booksoes. Fo submission infomaion o o find ou abou Palo Pess publicaions, wie o Palo Pess, 31 Backen- bey Dive, Andeson, Souh Caolina, 1, o email edio@palopess.com.

In memoy of Amand Schwene

and fo Zoe, now and always

Contents

Acknowledgments ix In(troductory mani)festo 3 In Search of the Critical Grail: Performative Sub(di)versions 5 1 The Text as Other: Reading in the Field 13 Performative Criticism as Multimedia Bricolage Practice 25 C(s)i(gh)ting the Grail 46 TEZ Bit 50

Critical Performances—— 53

Let’s Go Textualizing 54 2 Script 1: Niagara on the Rocks: Fissuring Margaret Fuller, Henry James and a Strata of Other Voices (Lavazzi/Randall,TEZ) 55 Audio List 114 The Diorama 116 Postcards 118 Tom’s Appendix 120 The Falls: The Movie 121 Zoe’s Appendix 126 Bibliography (Select) 127 Dialogizing Jurisprudence 132 3 Script 2: Poetic Discourse v Legal Discourse: The Case of Charles Reznikoff 133 Slide List 177 Bibliography, Voices 179 Deconstructing Product Design 182 4 Script 3: The Monroe Project, or, the MM Effect—Going Over— 183 Audio List 222 Bibliography 225 Monroe/Me (Auto)bio (Zoe Randall,TEZ) 226 Life: 9/9/57 235

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The Speed of (Re)production 237 5 Script 4: The Beat Poetry Games 238 Howling Hollywood: Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote Template 339 The Poems 340 McClure Makeover: “For the Death of 100 Whales” (as re(con)figured by the Product Design Team. . .) 345 Excess Material / Outtakes / Notes 350 Antic Politics357 6 Script 5: Poetics of Protest: A Fluxed History of the 1968 DNC 359 Poetics of Protest [Conference Version] 415 Punching the Line: Fluxus, Yippie, and the 1968 DNC 415 Fluxbits, or (Anti)Terrorist Scripts from YSS (Yip Strategy Session) 441 Fluxbit Protest Fact Sheet (complied by Christian Herold, TEZguest) 451 Campus Events 455 Jeopardizing Academia 457 7 Script 6: Stirr’d Up Everywhere: Whitman en abime 459

Closing Gestures—— 482 8 Eat, Drink and be Merry, for the Food of the Performance is Inedible 483 9  Virtual TEZ: Avatars and Acting Bodies, or Where Have All the Identities Gone? Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Liminality 489 PostFace 494 Index 500 Select Bibliography 501 About the Author 521

Acknowledgments

Secions of he inoducion, on Amand Schwene’s wok, have ap- peaed inTex 8, 1;Talisman, 1 and 1/1, 1- and 1, espec- ively, andPoey Ciicisms 42(Gale), 3. “Niagaa on he ocks Feauing Magae Fulle, Heny James, and a Saa of Ohe Voices…” Pefomed a he Inenaional Confe- ence on Naaive Lieaue (Simon Faze U., Canada), Pefomance Sudies Inenaional (Nohwesen U) and Ciy Lighs Theae Co., Sa- vannah, GA (full-sage poducion). “Legal Discouse v Poeic Discouse The Case of Chales eznikoff”: Pefomed a he Poes of he ’s (Naional Poey Founda ion); pulished inSageieb, 1.1, 1. “The Monoe Pojec”: Pefomed a he Inenaional Con feence on Despai and Desie, Pefomance Sudies Inenaional [ex cep] (Wales, UK); pulished inPos-Ideniy, .,  (hp://quod.li. umich.edu/cgi//ex/exidx?c=posid;idno=pid..*). “Monoe/Me (auo)io,” y Zoe andall [included in he “Mon oe Pojec”], pulished inPefomance Pacice, 1. “The Bea Poey Games”: Pefomed a Poes of he ’s (Na ional Poey Foundaion) and Pefomance Sudies Inenaional [ex cep] (Wales, UK); exceps pulished inManis: Jounal of Poey, Ciicism, and Tanslaion, ,  (hp://www.sanfod.edu/dep/DLCL/manis/ M/ConiuosM.hml). “Poeics of Poes: A Fluxed Hisoy of he 1 DNC”: Pe fomed a he Poes of he 1s [excep] (Naional Poey Foundaion) and Pefomance Sudies Inenaional [excep] (Bown Univesiy). “Punching he Line: Yippie, Fluxus, and he 1 DNC,” pecuso o “Poeics of Poes,” pulishedRizomes: Culual Sudies in Emeging Knowledge, ,  (hp://www.hizomes.ne/issue/index.hml), andEnglis Sudies Foum(hp://pulish.su.edu/esf/ppp.hm /). Si’d Up Eveywee: fis pefomed as “A Whiman Collage,” Whi man Cenennial Celeaion, CUNY; SKEP Pefomance Galley, NY; Space B, NY; pulishedas Si’d Up Eveywee, an ais’s ook y A Musy Bone Pess, 1; evesion,Te Lile Magazine, ., 1(hp://1h moon.ne/hml/limag.hml); colleced y MOMA/Fanklin Funace a iss’ ooks achive, he Booklyn museum (feaued in ecen goup show, “Woking in Booklyn,” //1, ), he Cleveland A Insiue, Banff A Cene, and ohes.

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