Zaum
The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism

Gerald Janecek's classic title is the most comprehensive treatment of "zaum," a significant moment / movement of the historical avant-garde period to which many refer but with little concrete background. Charlotte Douglas (Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU), says this of Janecek's Zaum:

Zaum is an encyclopedic account of zaum or "beyonsense," the most distinctive feature of Russian avant-garde art and poetry early in the 20th century. Janecek has mined a myriad of arcane and inaccessible sources, gathered the entire historical record in one place, and made it readable and comprehensible. His account of zaum theory and practice will be indispensable for anyone interested in modern poetry and art. Certainly it will become a standard text for all students of Russian Futurism.

Gerald J. Janecek is Professor of Russian at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1972. He specializes in 20th century avant-garde Russian literature of the early decades and in contemporary Russian poetry. He has written on Andrei Bely, on Russian Futurism and on a variety of contemporary Russian poets. His publications include translations of Bely's Kotik Letaev (2nd ed. Northwestern, 1999) and The First Encounter (Princeton, 1979), and the books The Look of Russian Literature (Princeton, 1984) and Sight & Sound Entwined: Studies of the New Russian Poetry (Berghahn, 2000).

       

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	In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop Mark Amerika & Lance Olsen, eds. Paper/ pages: 212 $19 | Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: San Diego State University Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1995) ISBN-10: 1879691329 ISBN-13: 978-1879691322

This collection of irreverent, bold, and challenging cutting-edge essays explores the recent cultural phenomenon of "avant-pop."  Originally "published" on ALTX's World Wide Web portal in the spring of 1995, this collection now appears as a physical book you can hold in your hand, throw at the wall or immortalize in your private altars. Essays by Brooks Landon, Michael Joyce, Eurudyce, Curtis White, David Blair, Larry McCaffery, Ronald Sukenick, Takayuki Tatsumi, Martin Schecter, Mark Amerika, Lance Olsen, Steven Shaviro, Harry Polkinhorn, Raymond Federman, and Don Webb.

From the editors' "Introduction"

Based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, this work contains the play script written by Héctor Ortega as well as documentation of the original performance, previously unpublished artworks by scenographer José Luis Cuevas, a prologue by Augusto Monterroso, critical essays on the subject of humor in Kafka by Héctor Ortega, Hugo Hiriart, Manuel Flores, and D. Emily Hicks, and a general introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Designed for the general reader interested in theatre, Latin American Arts in general, Border Performance Theory and more.

Philadelpho Menezes's Poetics & Visuality offers an account of the development of extreme poetic practices in a country known for its commitment to experimentation. This richly illustrated history begins with spatialism, to which concretism comes as a corrective ordering in the early 1950s. The "visual poetry" of the last decades is cogently theorized as intersign poetry (collage, package, montage poetries), a movement that has drawn international attention.

The Tyranny of Data traces the manifold links between institutional and scholarly practices in the exciting field of contemporary geography. In 1995 Professor Getis was honored by SDSU's Graduate Division and Research as the University's tenth University Research Lecturer. The lecture he delivered was entitled "The Tyranny of Data" and is reproduced here, along with Getis's "Scholarship, Leadership, and Quantitative Methods," which touches on many related subjects.

Arthur Getis is a Professor Emeritus of Geography at San Diego State University.  He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington in 1961.  He has Master and Bachelor degrees from the Pennsylvania State University.  Within GIScience, Getis’ specialties include spatial statistics, pattern analysis, urban geography, and disease and crime clustering. 

Getis’ record of sustained contributions over the past forty years distinguishes him among scholars in GIScience.  Getis has authored more than one hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters about various aspects of GIScience.  Several of the publications, such as his work on local statistics (with J.K. Ord), have been cited hundreds of times – with “Analysis of spatial association by use of distance statistics” showing over seven hundred citations in Google Scholar!  Getis has also authored or edited eleven books - most notably Models of spatial processes: an approach to the study of point, line, and area patterns (Getis and Boots, 1978), Point pattern analysis (Boots & Getis, 1987), and Spatial econometrics and spatial statistics (Getis et al., 2004).

Throughout his career, Getis’ interests in urban and population geography led him to develop tools to solve important problems in analyzing spatial patterns.  In turn, the use of those tools and models have helped others understand how spatial analysis can enhance work in their own field of research.  As a result, Getis has been a great evangelist for geographic applications in other disciplines such as economics, criminology, public health, regional science, and demography.   His work has taken him to lecture and teach at prestigious universities around the world – many without formal geography departments – about the importance of geographical analysis.  As a result, he has broken many research barriers and helped enhance the respect for GIScience as a discipline. (source)
  

Two-Way Street: The Paulista Avenue, Flux and Counter-Flux of Modernity

Two-Way Street presents Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue from "the other side of the street." Bogéa offers a semiotic and genealogical analysis of the richly varied architectural styles of this major world avenue. Urban space is seen as a coded form of communications network, whose fuller message emerges upon critical examination.

This volume of original essays by an international group of scholars investigates verbal-visual relations, broadly conceived, in the modern period. The book explores, through a wide varity of theoretical and critical approaches, how thinkers in various fields--aesthetics, poetry, visual art, philosophy, and book illustration--have approached the problematic relationship between the verbal and the visual. Conjunctions honors the work of a pioneering scholar in the field of interarts studies, Renée Riese Hubert. Contributors include Michel Deguy, Judd D. Hubert, Claude Gandelman, Laurie Edson, Marjorie Perloff, Roger Shattuck, Georges Roque, Sydney Lévy, Anne-Marie Christin, Richard Vernier, Breon Mitchell, Steven Winspur, Roger Cardinal, Robert W. Greene, Eric T. Haskell, Harriett Watts, Willard Bohn, and Virginia A. La Charité. The book includes a biography and list of publications of Renée Riese Hubert.

Long regarded among the principal American critics and theorists of the avant-garde in literature and the arts, Kostelanetz presents a contemporary guide to reading vanguard literature. Recalling the purpose of Ezra Pound, Kostelanetz guides the reader to an "acceptance and understanding of radically new art."

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