9780936050119
Helen Keller or Arakawa
Madeline Gins
ISBN 13: 9780936050119
Publisher: Burning Books
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
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Helen Keller or Arakawa gives rise to a new form of "speculative" fiction, conveying the potential for human experience now and here rather than depicting worlds distant in space or time. The novel tracks consciousness and identity through the intermingling paths of its three protagonists: the historical person Helen Keller; the iconoclastic artist Arakawa; and the writer herself, Madeline Gins. At the same time, this innovative work advances and upsets key tenets of contemporary critical theory. The book takes off from Helen Keller's evocative journal entries, exemplifying a unique female intelligence in concert with recognizable masculine varieties. On the deck of an ocean liner, Helen and Niels Bohr discuss color, olfaction, and the compulsion inside protoplasm, speaking with their hands. The shinnyu episode offers a discursive look at the japanese mark that in its origin denotes both "going" and "pausing". One chapter thickly examines the disappearing phoneme "th" leading through feathers to birds - with an addendum on the vocabulary of the Scots. The novel is peopled with unlikely characters. Voluntar, the size of a dot ("found lounging in the figurative, sword in hand") travels in an instant from zero to top speed. In Critical Beach, the terrain itself comes alive, as a critically active sensibility, to help devise new modes of perceiving. Gins says: "When Helen Keller tries to explain the world, she often ends up describing an Arakawa painting". The novel narrates how the artist utilizes visual abstraction to outline forms of the world that otherwise remain hidden. Helen Keller does it with her body, aided by an incisive verbal intelligence and boundless curiosity. Throughout theunfolding, Gins pilots a kind of "mute" speech - natural and sensual, intensely pleasurable - which subsumes great heuristic constructions in its wake.
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Book Description: Burning Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1994. Book Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover; black cloth; 309 pp.; very lightly worn jacket, else a fine copy protected in a Brodart cover. Bookseller Inventory # 002983 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Burning Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1994. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by both Arakawa and Gins and dated directly to illustrated pages. Stated: First Edition. Black embossed design boards with blue spine titling. Unmarked. Square sharp corners. Dust Jacket not clipped. Copy of original prospectus laid-in. 309 pp. Excellent bright collectible signed 2X near fine copy. Signed. Bookseller Inventory # 4003224 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Burning Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1994. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard bound with dust jacket. SIGNED and DATED by Madeline Gins! Some minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 16384 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Helen Keller or Arakawa. [First Edition Signed by Arakawa & Gins]. (ISBN: 093605011X / 0-936050-11-X) Gins, Madeline Quantity Available: 1
Book Description: Burning Books with East-West Cultural Studies 1994. First Edition. Copy signed by both., 1994. 7" x 8 3/4", 309 pp., printed in varying sized types, with photo & short biography of Gins on p. 309 & list of Arakawa works mentioned in the text, & "sources". Bound in black cloth with titles stamped in blue on spine, blindstamped design of braille dots on front cover, black & blue, initial-designed: HK oA endpapers; printed dustjacket with titles, braille dot design, by Michael Sumner. Fine copy in a near fine (very light edge wear) dustjacket. Signed by artist Arakawa, and author Madeline Gins, above the black & white illustration (of Arawaka viewing one of his works, and a similar illustration), preceeding the titlepage: Arakawa [/] Madeline Gins n.y 1994 (these signatures are shown in the scan). One of a very few double signed copies of this title, which may have been intended to be a "deluxe" copy; this copy contains a folded, one page press release, which prints the text of the blurb, and the short biography of Gins, with quotes from reviewers (Philosopher Arthur C. Danto says in part: "[-] reads like Einstein as adapted for Wittgenstein by Gertrude Stein."; a former owner has circled this quote in red ink, and added in black to the upper margin of this sheet: Deluxe Copy-Signed by Arakawa & Gins). Scarce item. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-196813219 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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