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Vitalpoetics is an international journal of literary theory and new writing. We promote key ideas in the field through close analysis, always holding that literature and its theory are connected to cultural and political contexts. We seek to publish the best writing by emerging and established writers.
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- Quim Monzó’s Gasoline
Like (and in fact by) Eugenia Demuro, I have recently been given the wonderful gift of a subscription to Open Letter Books. Aside from…
- The Adventure of the Mystery Machine with the Suspicious Odour (Sherlock Holmes pt.2)
Holmes is the ultimate Victorian-Era Scooby-Doo, unmasking the irrational and metaphysical in order to expose the creepy-old-janitor-under-the-werewolf-mask of the coherent, objective world.
- Why read? Why write? Why Literature?
It is in the plurality of meaning that, regarding both the ‘construction’ of reality and the conventions of mimetic (realist / readerly) literature, Literature assumes…
- My being [/language] is part of the totality of what is [written]
It seems that for many philosophers, being must be conceived of as finite and therefore in some way whole. Perhaps this is what keeps them…
- Sam Leach – the Political Landscape
I probably don’t have to describe the controversy surrounding Sam Leach’s Wynne Prize winning painting ‘Proposal for landscaped cosmos’ (below) except to say that the…
- The Adventure of the Ten-Foot Blue Dudes (Sherlock Holmes pt.1)
The Holmes stories are defined by their narrative structure, and a necessary self-referential mechanic that is built into every facet of the tale. At every level these short stories operate as narratives in a state of flux.
- Swedenborg’s Oven: Head number Five – The 6th of April 1744.
As you may well remember from previous posts I have been waiting for Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams to be returned to the…
- a sporadic and brief instance of critical fiction
There is no primal scream without the sun, the deep crevice of the earth, Heraclitus’ flowing waters. The river runs its course: “We step and do not step into the same river, we are and we are not”.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski – Journalist
Much controversy has surrounded a new biography of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) which alleges that huge swathes of his reportage were made-up. Defences have…
- Interlude – On the Price and Place of Manuscripts
I have recently been indulging in fantasies about all the books I might be able to order on line and have delivered to my door,…
- Quim Monzó’s Gasoline
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