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TEXT! - an introduction
literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of first personness
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I have never / I remember
Histories of autobiographical writing traditionally point to a few key works to describe the emergence of a particular kind of narrative in which the…
Adam Smyth
Jun 18
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Blotting out
The descrypcyon of Englonde, ‘Enprynted in flete strete in ye sygne of the sone By me Wynkyn de Worde’ in 1502, is a history of Britain. It’s a mix of…
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Jun 2
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Self-narrating books: Henry Dugdale Sykes and Wynkyn de Worde
One of the features of books is their tendency to describe their own history: as the bibliographer and literary critic D.F. McKenzie wrote, ‘every book…
Adam Smyth
May 24
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Preamble the churl’s banshee
One form of creativity-through-constraint practised by Jean Lescure and Raymond Queneau and those French writers who in the 1960s styled themselves…
Adam Smyth
May 17
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Cutting up Spenser and Shakespeare
A brief experiment in cutting up poetry. I wondered what would happen if I tried to patch together an Edmund Spenser poem using William Shakespeare’s…
Adam Smyth
May 5
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Slicing the page: Christophe Leutbrewer and Raymond Queneau
If you are having trouble remembering your sins in seventeenth-century France – if you feel you need some kind of spiritual prompt – then you could do…
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Apr 22
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Slicing the page: Christophe Leutbrewer and Raymond Queneau
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Concurrency
In an article called ‘Printers of the Mind’, published in 1969, the bibliographer D.F. McKenzie unraveled certain fundamental assumptions imagined and…
Adam Smyth
Mar 31
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