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... and 1950s. This essay proposes a different reading of clichés by focusing on artists who approach the cliché not with grimness but with fascination. Raymond Roussel, Marcel Duchamp, and John Ashbery recognized the cliché's constitutive function in modern culture; its ties to print, photography...

... a community of understanding.” Rosenbaum’s essay returns us to three artists aware of a certain form of the “ludicrousness of lyric,” a situation recognized by Raymond Roussel and Marcel Duchamp in a way that, she argues, taught John Ashbery how to read clichés for the “residual power of poetry...

... Association , 1997 . 92 - 109 . Melucci Alberto . “ Social Movements and the Democratization of Everyday Life .” Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives . Ed. Keane J. . London : Verso , 1988 . 245 - 260 . Micallef Shawn Roussel James Sawhney Gabe...

... for the essay, Ashbery places Stein’s Stanzas in a transhistorical, idiosyncratic canon of masterpieces and in relation to a personal conversation with a friend: Kenneth’s remark about Duomo in Florence. Cage Bach Roussel Duomo Finnegans Wake monsters of art who seem...

... the literariness of this fact). An avowed parricide, like Michel Foucault's two heroes of discourse and genealogy, Raymond Roussel and Pierre Riviere, Duncan descends from a violent rupture of nothing as he weaves death into his tale. Just as in Cassirer's derivation of mythic speech, this fear of annihi...

... direct engagement with literature between the years 1962 and 1964— a period of literary involvement which culminated in Death and the Labyrinth, his book on Raymond Roussel—seems to be lacking in any sense of the rather significant relations between the discursive and the aesthetic. And yet...