Reading and Writing Experimental Texts

Part I. Critical Contexts

1. Critical Play: An Introduction
Kristina Quynn, Robin Silbergleid

2. Ecological Echoing: Following the Footsteps
Diane P. Freedman

3. Carole Maso’s AVA and the Practice of Reading: Selves in Dialogue
Halli Beauprey, Robin Silbergleid

4. Expert Witness: Living in the Dirt
Melissa Mora Hidalgo

5. Blah Blah Bleh: Bulimic Writing as Resistance
Megan Milks

6. “In the Soul of the Sidereal World” Mining Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen’s The WunderCabinet for a Critical Model of Interdisciplinary Curiosity
Kristen Renzi

Part II. Critical Readings

7. Reading and Writing in Kristjana Gunnars’s Rose Garden

Kristina Quynn

8. The Water Will Hold You: On Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water

Stephanie Glazier

9. Writing a Sacred Self: Kathy Acker and Wonder
Amy Nolan

10. Impulses Toward a Telepathic Reading of Clarice Lispector’s The Stations of the Body and “The Beak of A Bird” by Amina Cain
Teresa Carmody

11. Still Life with My Grandmother’s China: Mark Doty and the Lyric Essay
Kate Ridinger Smorul

12. Lessons from Lying: Autobiographical Performances and the Conventions of Nonfiction
Robin Silbergleid

13. Take 12: A Critical Performance
Judith Roof, Melissa Bailar, Philomena Bradford, Aaren Pastor

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Feminist Culture