Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 9wyxy
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780748683505
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The culmination of research carried out over an eight-year period, including original archival research into the Kathy Acker Papers at Duke University, this monograph provides a revisionary study of Acker's oeuvre. Research for the book required placing her work in the context of Acker's avant-garde contemporaries and predecessors, and of a history of experimental women's writing. Unearthing and utilising numerous unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations, and correspondence, each chapter focuses on a particular compositional method. Through close detailed attention to these primary texts, the book produces new and complex textual analyses of Acker's works.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 6 reworks some material on the representation of pain that first appeared in the article ‘The Reappropriation of Classical Mythology to Represent Pain: Falling Silent in the Work of Kathy Acker and Robert Mapplethorpe’, in Comparative Critical Studies, 9.1, 2012, pp. 7-35, and which was submitted to REF 2014. The chapter's focus on ekphrasis and Cathy de Monchaux's work, and the archive materials in the Kathy Acker Papers that engage with Monchaux, is however entirely new material. The use of revised material in chapter 6 published before 2014 amounts to less than 5% of the monograph as a whole.
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- Non-English
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