Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation

By Gerrit Haas

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Release date: Feb 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9783839437049

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