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Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell

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In "Writing Surfaces," derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell s work. Riddell s poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry mixed with fiction and drawings. Riddell s oeuvre fell out of popular attention, but it has recently garnered interest among poets and critics engaged with media studies and experimental writing.

Riddell is best known for his short fiction pieces H and Pope Leo: El Elope, a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol. However, his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions.

Riddell s work embraces game play, unreadability and illegibility, procedural work, non-representational narrative, photocopy degeneration, collage, handwritten texts, and gestural work. His self-aware and meta-textual short fiction challenges the limits of machine-based composition and his reception as a media-based poet.

With media studies increasingly turning to media archaeology and the reading and study of antiquated, analogue-based modes of composition , Riddell is a perfect candidate for further appreciation and study by new generations of readers, authors, and scholars. "

Language: English

Pages: 164

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Release: February 01, 2013

ISBN: 1554588286

ISBN 13: 9781554588282

Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell

4.6/5 ( ratings)

In "Writing Surfaces," derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell s work. Riddell s poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry mixed with fiction and drawings. Riddell s oeuvre fell out of popular attention, but it has recently garnered interest among poets and critics engaged with media studies and experimental writing.

Riddell is best known for his short fiction pieces H and Pope Leo: El Elope, a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol. However, his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions.

Riddell s work embraces game play, unreadability and illegibility, procedural work, non-representational narrative, photocopy degeneration, collage, handwritten texts, and gestural work. His self-aware and meta-textual short fiction challenges the limits of machine-based composition and his reception as a media-based poet.

With media studies increasingly turning to media archaeology and the reading and study of antiquated, analogue-based modes of composition , Riddell is a perfect candidate for further appreciation and study by new generations of readers, authors, and scholars. "

Language: English

Pages: 164

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Release: February 01, 2013

ISBN: 1554588286

ISBN 13: 9781554588282

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