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SUMMARY:Vital Words and Uncommon Archives: A Workshop in Experimental Crit
 icism with Mary Cappello
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240618T140000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240618T160000
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DESCRIPTION:I heard\, as if I had no Ear/Until a Vital Word/Came all the w
 ay from Life to me/And then I knew I heard — (E. Dickinson)\n\nWhat migh
 t happen to your scholarly practice if you allowed other sorts of source m
 aterials than those that are conventionally mandated to be in dialogue wit
 h your writing\, your form\, or your focus? We’ll work with what I call 
 the uncommon archive to pursue the effects on our work of the seemingly si
 mple mandate to “start from someplace else.” Three different genres of
  in-seminar writing experiments (influenced by the work of Emily Dickinson
 \, Lynda Barry\, and Christina Sharpe) will take us further and further in
 to realms of unplumbed depths\, generative adjacencies\, and absent interl
 ocutors. How is interest generated? Where does it come from and by what me
 ans does it arrive? In our short time together\, I look forward to pursuin
 g new grounds for unanticipated arrivals as we make audible and visible cr
 iticism’s unconscious.\n\nParticipants are invited to bring a signature-
 style analog notebook* expressly for the purpose of the exercises we will 
 pursue together and with the hope of its serving as a portable studio for 
 the evolution of individual projects thereafter. An openness to play (chil
 d’s work) and experiment (a willingness to fail) will also prove essenti
 al.\n\n*a bound writing surface whose feel\, shape and size personally res
 onate for their bearer\n\nThere are limited spaces available\; to register
  for the workshop\, please email iris.pearson@new.ox.ac.uk.\n\n***\nMary C
 appello is a queer practitioner of the essay\, experiments in prose\, memo
 ir\, literary nonfiction\, and performative criticism. A Guggenheim and Be
 rlin Prize Fellow\, she is the author of seven books that include a detour
  on awkwardness\; a breast-cancer anti-chronicle\; a lyric biography\; a s
 peculative manifesto\; and the mood fantasia\, Life Breaks In. Keen to rec
 onceive the forms nonfiction takes in public to meet the pressing politica
 l needs of our time\, she has authored projects like the essay as collabor
 ative mood room\, and the inter-active anti-panel\, while also calling for
  a return to the lecture as a sounding\, contemplative art. A former Fulbr
 ight fellow at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow)\, she is Professor Em
 erita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.
LOCATION:University College (Goodhart Seminar Room (access via Logic Lane)
 )\, High Street OX1 4BH
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