Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) (Hardcover)

by Joe Amato (Author)

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Bookend challenges distinctions between prose and poetry as well as between popular and academic culture, embodying a wide array of poetic techniques to argue that form and structure are themselves essential to artistic and cultural meaning. It critiques the current media environs, a hybrid reality in which the individual encounters his or her public and private selves in the midst of a crisis of values. Each of the five anatomies represents both a personal and a local account of where the author finds himself in social and educational terms, and an attempt is made throughout to situate this individual experience against a global imperative.

About the Author
Joe Amato is Assistant Professor of English in the Lewis Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and author of Symptoms of a Finer Age.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079143401X
• ISBN-13: 978-0791434017
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,061,512 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In cyberspace where the self transmogrifies, Amato ventures, June 1, 2000

By	Rob Wilson (Honolulu and Santa Cruz) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) (Paperback)

Meet me in cyberspace where the self transmogrifies into ecstatic and traumatic forms of new and simuluated selfhood, and you will understand the "virtual reality" territory Joe Amato is venturing into and mapping with all the rage of a concerned citizen and the talented writing skills of an innovative poet.

This timely SUNY Press book is exploring and opening new territory for US poetics of the counter-canonical sort, and as such is a valued and compelling foray into this new sublimity of cyberspace writing. The "book may end" here, but the "virtual self" and its masks, tasks, and possibilities are only beginning, dear mongrel reader, lost and wandering in this same vasty & unexplored hyper-capitalist transnational space yourself...