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English Composition as a Happening
No full textFrom the Introduction: Contemporary Composition is still inflected by the epistemic turn taken in the 1980s, convincing me that we need to remember what we\u27ve forgotten—namely, how impassioned resolves and thrilling discoveries were abandoned and why. I\u27d like to retrace the road not taken in Composition Studies, to salvage what can still be recovered... I want to inspect the wreckage, in order to show what was the promise of the Happenings for Composition, as well as the huge gray longueur of its pale replacement, Eighties Composition. In so doing, I hope to begin a reconfiguration of our field\u27s pre- and after history. What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer\u27s 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemer\u27s inquiry, moving through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1133/thumbnail.jp
Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
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Geoffrey Robertson on the History of Human Rights
No full textQueen\u27s Counsel, broadcaster and author Geoffrey Robertson has achieved international fame by defending high-profile cases, often representing victims of alleged human rights abuses. Here, at an event organised by Amnesty Australia, he gives a short history of human rights, from the Magna Carta to the present
‘Like a Mason Addressing a Block’: Materiality and Design in Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Shearsman Books via the ISBN in this recordNote change of chapter title between accepted and published versionsArguing against the notion that contemporary British poetry is either insular or apolitical, this essay takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to the twenty-first century poetic redeployment of European material culture. It takes as a case study the work of the contemporary British poet, Geoffrey Hill. Hill's poetry makes strategic use of the built environment, in order to negotiate both the European cultural inheritance and to foreground its importance in the British poetic imagination. Reinvesting in built structure on the page, Hill’s inter-artistic eye keeps his audience historically and politically attuned to the uses to which stones, tablets and building blocks are used and re-used across the arts (to attract new audience gazes; to both found and bolster artistic reputations). The powerful contribution of Italian, French and German design models to social, rhetorical and moral thought in British poetry have frequently been neglected in scholarship of contemporary British poetics. This essay offers a corrective, focusing on Hill's distinctive contemporary attention to this shared design politics. Hill's work foregrounds the importance of this European influence, and works consciously to redirect the way that contemporary British audiences understand poetry's complex cultural inheritance and its legacy
A challenge to publish books in Zambia!
No full textGeoffrey Musonda, author and engineer, about the challenge of publishing books in Zambia and to market Zambian literature globally.</p
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