Overview
- Introduces the concept of "bad reading" as a means of describing the relationship between affect theory, queer theory, and the act of reading
- Contextualizes "bad reading" within an analysis of postwar experimental authors
- Illustrates parallels between "bad reading" and sociopolitical topics such as the literary obscenity debates of the early 20th century and the AIDS crisis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism (PSATLC)
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“Gorgeously expansive, Bradway’s book understands reading queer experimental literature as an experience of intensity that precipitates new ways of being relational and collective in advance of existing social forms. Bradway’s own writing is both lush and lucid, and will doubtless constellate new readerships too. If this is what bad reading gives us, I’m all in.” (Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis; Editor, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies; author of “Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories”)
“Tyler Bradway’s book is a bold and much-needed intervention on several fronts: queer theory, experimental writing, and affect studies. In incisive and spirited prose, it exposes tacit assumptions about what counts as good and bad reading and pushes current debates in new directions—the case for “queer exuberance” is especially powerful. A major resource for anyone concerned with the affective politics of reading.” (Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, University of Virginia, and Neils Bohr Professorship, University of Southern Denmark, Editor, New Literary History, author of “The Limits of Critique”)
“Tyler Bradway has written a beautiful, nuanced analysis of the power of queer experimental writing to elicit bad readings, readings that affirm the affects and bodily forces that texts can generate. Reading key texts by Acker, Burroughs, Delany, Winterson, and others affectively, Queer Experimental Literature affirms that some writings impact us, affect us, directly, generating new relations to ourselves and the world.” (Elizabeth Grosz, Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor, Duke University, author of “Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art”)
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About the author
Tyler Bradway is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York at Cortland, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queer Experimental Literature
Book Subtitle: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading
Authors: Tyler Bradway
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59543-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95554-1Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59543-0Published: 09 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6311
Series E-ISSN: 2634-632X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History