Meddle English: New and Selected Texts

By Caroline Bergvall

Book Overview

This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall's innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer's Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary tales exploring social mores in a feisty mix of languages, and the hybrid and visual prose pieces Cropper, Cat in the Throat, and Middling English. This volume--rich, multi-layered, acerbic, humorous--creates a strong case for how new literature can provide speculative and performative excursions into post-urban lives and idoms and explore renewed visions for languages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982264585
• ISBN13: 9780982264584
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.2"