Reading the Illegible

by Craig Dworkin

A 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.

In his scrutiny of selected works, and with reference to a rich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810119277
• ISBN13: 9780810119277
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"