Lust for Life On the Writings of Kathy Acker

Name: Lust for Life On the Writings of Kathy Acker
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ISBN: 9781844670666

ISBN-10: 184467066X

ISBN-13: 9781844670666

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, Amy Scholder, Nayland Blake, Leslie Dick

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Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century. Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists. Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital Ronell's erudite meditation on friendship and mourning. Together these essays by scholars and writers…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.01" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




Kathy Acker




Kathy goes to hell : on the irresolvable stupidity of Acker's death




Acker un-formed




The greatness of




Foucault reads Acker and rewrites the history of the novel




Devil father mine




Kathy Acker : "because I want to live forever in wonder"




Seventeen paragraphs on Kathy Acker