Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation

Gerrit Haas

ISBN 10: 3837637042 / ISBN 13: 9783837637045

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2017

About this Item

Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 coloUr. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837637042
• ISBN 13: 9783837637045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.

About the Author

Gerrit Haas was awarded a joint PhD from FU Berlin and UWA. His post-doctoral research interests comprise constellations, hacking literature, and discursive iconicity. Born and bred in Düsseldorf, he currently lives and works in Berlin.