Underlanguage Trilogy: The Cursory Epic, 663 reasons why, Ratzinger Solo
- Submitting institution
-
The University of Surrey
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 9018052_1
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
-
-
- Location
- Contraband
- Brief description of type
- Book trilogy
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- -
- Year
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
-
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Taken together, this trilogy examines the function, operation and tangibility of strategies of resistance in poetry to languages of social and political control, exploring new avenues and methodologies of engagement with these languages through poetry.
By shifting in a progression of robust techniques and compositional practices from cut-up and exposition in The Cursory Epic, to recuperation and recolonization of language in 663 reasons why, to a focus on character as media proliferation as a mode of response in Ratzinger Solo, these texts innovatively interpret and combine existing found materials and language, reconstituting political, commercial and administrative discourses as modes of poetic and linguistic response to systems of control in public and private language.
Collectively, these books advance a new intellectual and practice-based approach to engendering a contemporary politically engaged poetic lexicon that operates as both generative of new forms of expression and as an original mode of analytical critique. Central to understandings of the reactivity that innovative and politically engaged poetry and poetics generate in our current time of political crisis and contention, these books excavate and bring about new contemporary spaces of resistance in language, invading, reformulating and making useable - methodologically, technically and thematically - the futilising discourses of politics, business, public governance and social culture.
Contraband Books have published these books and made them available at readings, events and online on the press website. The work has been performed at over fifty events and readings, UK-based and internationally. Recordings of some of these, as well as parts of the texts are also freely available online. They were the subject of a panel at the Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016, where Francis Gene-Rowe’s paper on The Cursory Epic won the SFRA Best Post-Graduate Researcher prize, resulting in multiple presentations of the work in the UK and abroad.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -