Required texts will be supplemented with photocopied essays, articles, and miscellany.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso—read over break for week 1 !
ISBN 0674733485
Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer M. Rilke
ISBN 0-8195-6165-7
The Portable Nietzsche link
ISBN 978-014015062
*Imagining Language, Rasula & McCaffery, Eds.
ISBN 978-0262681315
Collected Poems, Stephane Mallarme
ISBN 0520207114
Stories and Texts for Nothing, Samuel Beckett
ISBN 978-0802150622
Selected Writings, Antonin Artaud<—click title for reading selections
ISBN 0520064437
*Event, Philippe Sollers
ISBN 978-0873760461
Miracle of the Rose, Jean Genet
ISBN 0802130887
From the Book to the Book, Edmond Jabes
ISBN 978-0819562524
Geometric Regional Novel, Gert Jonke
ISBN 978-1564782311
*The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus
ISBN 978-1564781963
The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes
ISBN 978-0374521608
-Texts are listed roughly in the order they will be used.