Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s cherished beliefs about life and art.
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the urge to destroy is a creative urge,
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In this novel Acker aims her critique at the gnarly intersection of capitalism, violence, sexual dysfunction, and male dominance. In order to live out this critique, Acker jettisons most of the (male-dominated) traditions of narrative as she writes, systematically disrupting the stability of characters and setting, and rejecting the claim to authorial originality (as you might guess from the title). Some might say that this rejection is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I'm more inclined to say it's form following function. Exemplary.
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a wonderful but difficult book,
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kathy acker doesn't cut any corners - ever. great expectations might shock you, might offend you, might even hurt and disturb you. but acker can deconstruct sexuality and eroticism and living like no one else can, and you might learn a lot about yourself and this rough, confusing existence.
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My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Peter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Peter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker in Front Matter
- Empire of the Senseless: A Novel (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker in Front Matter
- Moby-Dick, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville on page 29
- Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker in Front Matter
- In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker in Front Matter
- This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction by Arthur M. Saltzman on 17 pages
- Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture by Amanda Gilroy on 5 pages
- Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden World by Susan Cole in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Larry McCaffery in Front Matter, page 1, and page 15
- The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, 2nd Edition by Catherine Belsey on page 195, page 197, and Back Matter
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