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- Essays on the Peripheries
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- 2021
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Essays on the Peripheries contains essays written by translator and scholar Peter Valente over a twenty-year period, stretching from the 1990s to 2019. They are a record of literary exploration and discovery, concerned with the recovery of lost works, with those writers whose works were out of print or hard to find, and whose names were somehow not fashionable in the current discourse, but who are important nevertheless. Edouard Roditi, Barbara Barg, and Tom Savage, for example, should be better known, but their books are largely ignored. This collection of essays highlights those works on the periphery, such as Turkish poets Seyhan Erözçelik and Küçük İskender, while it also includes several essays on better-known queer authors like Pierre Guyotat and Pier Paolo Pasolini, focusing on often overlooked qualities in their work that bear looking at closely. These essays on works of literature are complemented by a number of texts on jazz, again highlighting important and interesting figures in the world of jazz and free improvisation that may have fallen through the cracks, such as the pianist Richard Twardzick and the Ganelin trio, which recorded their great experimental work Ancora da Capo in 1980, behind the Iron Curtain. Attention is also to given to more popular figures such as Stan Getz. The volume is completed with a series of essays reappraising Roman poets in the twenty-first century, offering fresh new translations and readings of authors such as Catullus and Callimachus. A collection of essays, like an anthology, is by its nature incomplete. Essays on the Peripheries is a kind of sketch, rather than a finished portrait, of the author's changing impressions on various subjects over the years.
Table of Contents
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- Half-Title Page, Copyright, Title Page
- pp. i-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- I. Poets
- 12. Brief Notes on Thomas McEvilley
- pp. 111-120
- 15. Sound As Thought Notes on Clark Coolidge
- pp. 143-150
- II. Pierre Guyotat
- III. Henry James and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- IV. Encounters with Turkish Poetry
- 22. The Eda of Ece Ayhan’s Orthodoxies
- pp. 231-238
- 23. On Ahmet Guntan’s Romeo and Romeo
- pp. 239-242
- V. Reviews of Some Jazz and Free Improvisation Records
- 27. The Ganelin Trio’s Ancora Da Capo
- pp. 259-262
- 28. Richard Twardzik’s Trio
- pp. 263-266
- 29. Stan Getz and Arthur Blythe
- pp. 267-268
- 31. Dave Douglas’s Strange Liberation
- pp. 273-276
- VI. Pasolini, Balestrini, Artaud
- 32. On Pier Paolo Pasolini
- pp. 277-294
- VII. Revisiting the Ancient World in the Twenty-first Century
- 35. This Is Not a Golden Age
- pp. 325-336
- 38. On Ovid’s The Cures for Love
- pp. 353-362
- 40. Catullus’s Circle of Friends
- pp. 375-382
- 41. On the Letters of Apollonius of Tyana
- pp. 383-400
Additional Information
ISBN
9781953035509
Related ISBN(s)
9781953035493
MARC Record
OCLC
1256540386
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2021-06-16
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2021