1st Edition
Ben Lerner, Edges of Genre Poetry, Fiction, Artistic Collaborations
List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Erring Together; Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1 “Love // more avant-garde than shame”: Ben Lerner’s Ethical Aesthetics; Chapter 2 “Bodies, streetlights, mixed media”: 10:04 and the Mediated Experience; Chapter 3 Autofiction, Privilege, and Redemption; Chapter 4 Autofiction, Mediation, Parasocial Politics: Ben Lerner Against Authenticity; PART II; Chapter 5 The Stuttering Novel: Reading the Prosody of Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School with Gilles Deleuze; Chapter 6 “Heard melodies are sweet / but those unheard are sweeter”: Impossible Music and Poetic Voice in Ben Lerner’s Gold Custody; Chapter 7 Angle of Inclination / Angle of Yaw: Lerner’s Conversation with Celan; Chapter 8 “Between the Terrestrial and the Divine”: On Ben Lerner’s Poetics; Chapter 9 Determining Art as Thrice Removed: Leveling Ben Lerner’s Tower of Representation; PART III; Chapter 10 The Instrument with Which It’s Cut: Ben Lerner’s Bildung and the Song of the Fungible; Chapter 11 “Crucial Betweens”: The Politics of Intermediality in Ben Lerner’s Artistic Collaborations; Chapter 12 Virtual Theory and Actual Practice: The Language of Critical Theory in the Novels of Ben Lerner; Chapter 13 Kansas and Effect: Critique, Causality and the Theoretical Forms in/of Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School; Chapter 14 Ben Lerner and Conspiracy Poetics
Biography
Yannicke Chupin is Associate Professor at CY Cergy Paris Université, specializing in North American literature and metafiction in 21st-century writing. She has published books on Vladimir Nabokov and edited Mutations of Metafiction (Revue Française d'Études Américaines, 2019).
Karim Daanoune is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry. His research centers on contemporary North American literature which includes Arab American and Arab Canadian writing. His work sits at the intersection of poetics, ethics, and politics.
