Reading the Illegible by Craig Dworkin - 9780810119277

Reading the IllegibleAuthor(s): Craig Dworkin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810119277, 978-0810119277\nSynopsis\nA poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations and violations, and how the \""illegible\"" results are to be read, is the subject Craig Dworkin takes up in this ambitious work.\n\nIn his scrutiny of selected works, and with reference to a rich variety of textual materials--from popular and scientific texts to visual art, political and cultural theories, and experimental films--Dworkin proposes a new way of apprehending the radical formalism of so-called unreadable texts. Dworkin unveils what he describes as \""the politics of the poem\""--what is signified by its form, enact.