Research Catalog

Title

Against the disappearance of literature : essays, interludes, dialogues, invocations on the creating word / by Arlene Zekowski.

Author

Zekowski, Arlene, 1922-

Publication

Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., c1999.

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Details

Description

xix, 227 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Towards the evolution of a new literary form -- Against the disappearance of literature -- Tradition and its limitations -- Anaïs Nin -- Paris to New York, New Jersey, Brooklyn, South to Southwest, to New Mexico -- Underground cinema -- Paris reminiscences-- Picasso, Mmme. Lipchitz -- The managerial technological ritual shakers and makers of this world -- Patterns. or. The GAP (The Great American Package) -- Cultural suicide and the decline of literacy in America -- The treason of the liberals : their renunciation of literary art -- About neo-narrative -- Life and living in San Miguel : I & II -- The end of the absolute in language and literature -- Creativity as the struggle to remain alive -- Big science and big publishing -- The crisis in modern fiction -- Velocities of change -- Populism TV-I/populism TV-II -- April 1984 or other worlds of being -- Hollywoodesque : destroying the picturesque --
• New story as myth (Preface : En route to Auron Winter Ski Station) -- Statement of the author : En route to Auron Winter Ski Station -- Salt from sacraments : a neo-narrative prose-poetry "fiction" after the Book of Genesis (Preface) -- Artifice and art -- Visions as appearances of things -- Thinking spatially -- Art as psychic rebirth -- Serving in the uses of this world -- Interview with the author Arlene Zekowski on her book, "Histories and dynasties" -- Sidelights -- Living only in the thing itself -- Arranging flowers from the garden -- Art versus reality : spirit versus matter -- Tide pool beach walk -- A reply to George Steiner's : "A retreat from the word" -- The new cosmos? -- The jiggle jangle juggle of the world -- Inevitability -- Literature and language for the year 2000 : poetry-prose neo-narrative open structure -- A visit with Georgia O'Keeffe -- Mapping the neo-narrative and the grammarless language : an interview conducted by Welch D. Everman -- America at the crossroads : "Santa Fe Public Library famous authors series" -- An open letter to the writer of: It must be said, I took it personally (Margins/15, pp. 10,11,64).

Call Number

JFE 01-12573

ISBN

0878754709

LCCN

96060696

OCLC

41206404

Author

Zekowski, Arlene, 1922-

Title

Against the disappearance of literature : essays, interludes, dialogues, invocations on the creating word / by Arlene Zekowski.

Imprint

Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 01-12573