Interventions in the Arts

Larry McCaffery

AVANT-CRIT
On Contemporary Literature and Culture

Interventions in the Arts vol. 03
606 pp. + 494 pp., published on 01/05/2024 as paperback, ISBN 979-886266609-0, and on 01/06/2024 as hardcover, ISBN 979-887400922-9

Buckle up your brain cells or you will run the risk of an intellectual whip-lash when Avant-Prof Larry McCaffery takes you on an avant-critical roller-coaster ride through the most innovative and daring of contemporary cultural texts and phenomena: from metafiction and postmodernism to cyberpunk and avant-pop; from first-wave pomo grands Raymond Federman, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover to Kathy Acker and Derek Pell; from rock and (cow)punk to avant-film and video -- all this spiced and decorated with authoritative lists. Hooroo!

Jerzy Kutnik, editor

CAGE111
A 2012 John Cage Symposium

Interventions in the Arts vol. 04
250 pp., published on 12/09/2023 as paperback, ISBN 979-887135625-8, and on 12/10/2023 as hardcover, ISBN 979-887142905-1
In the 111th year of avant-garde composer John Cage's birth, we are proudly presenting CAGE111, a collection of essays on Cage and his work by renowned composers, performing artists, and scholars from around the world. In part published in Polish in 2012, the contributions -- edited by literary scholar Jerzy Kutnik -- are now available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Jerzy Kutnik

The Novel as Performance
The Early Fiction of Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman

Interventions in the Arts vol. 02
318 pp., published on 09/15/2022 as paperback, ISBN 979-883587155-1, and on 09/19/2022 as hardcover, ISBN 979-835300557-5
The first book-length study of American postmodernist authors Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman, originally published in 1986, focuses on the performatory discourses of these significant authors who both repudiate "the idea of the novel as mimesis (representation) in favor of the genuinely postmodern idea of the novel as performance (presentation)."

Thomas Hartl

Moinous: Writing
Raymond Federman
Collected Federmaniacal Texticules

Interventions in the Arts vol. 01
354 pp., published on 08/12/2021 as paperback, ISBN 979-850751596-7, and on 09/15/2021 as hardcover, ISBN 979-847778181-2; also available as an eBook.
This book offers readers a critifictional perambulation of the predominant themes and narrative strategies in the fiction of US-American avant-garde writer Raymond Federman. It also includes the most comprehensive bibliography to date of both Federman's works and secondary sources.

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