Matthew Harle

Afterlives of Abandoned Work (eBook, PDF)

Creative Debris in the Archive

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection letter, a disagreement with a collaborator, or the simple act of walking away from one's desk-can change the way we think about cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life.

Over five distinct journeys through a variety of archives, from major research libraries to the unique collections of individual enthusiasts, Matthew Harle draws surprising connections between literary studies, media studies, and visual arts, exploring unfinished projects from Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Harold Pinter, and others. Rooted in literary criticism, Afterlives of Abandoned Work reads unbuilt buildings, unfilmed screenplays, and unpublished novels and radio sketches as forms of text that can help us consider the enduring fragmentation and anecdotal construction of cultural form, as well as expand literary criticism's approach to the archive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501339448
• Artikelnr.: 55044538

Autorenporträt

Matthew Harle is a writer, archive curator and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Barbican Centre, UK. He works with the archives of artists, theorists and filmmakers, regularly curating screenings and exhibitions around London. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, such as Sight & Sound, Screen, CITY and Cineaste, and he is the co-editor of Of Mud & Flame: A Penda's Fen Sourcebook (2018).