McKenzie Wark, Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by Maria Markiewicz

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T.G. Rapatzikou on Kathy Acker and Transnationalism (Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol, eds.)

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The Dickensian Tropism in Contemporary Fiction by Georges Letissier

“…This article draws from Jay Clayton’s study on Dickens and postmodernism to track down different contemporary responses from Kathy Acker to Sarah Waters and the Antipodean rewritings of both Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.…”
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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…At the other end of the spectrum, more iconoclastic literary experiments may be seen as bearing witness to Dickens’s off-the-beaten-track approach to novel-writing. Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, by juxtaposing disjointed jump-cut sequences incorporating fantasy, personal statements and plagiarism transforms Dickensian theatrical performance into “narrative happenings”. …”
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