10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATAPHYSICS»
Discover the use of
pataphysics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pataphysics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science
Tracing the place of 'pataphysics in the relationship between science and poetry, Christian Bök shows it is fundamental to the nature of the postmodern, and considers the work of Alfred Jarry and its influence on others.
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Adventures in
Pataphysics
This collection helps explain his importance to the appearance of the modern movement in French literature.
Alfred Jarry, Paul Edwards, 2001
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Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
He looks specifically at the work of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, J. G. Ballard, Asger Jorn, Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Jacques Prevert, Antonin Artaud, Rene Clair, the Marx Brothers, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Marcel ...
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Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature
What then is 'Pataphysics? This is no new literary-philosophical school spawned
in Paris and proffered now to the voracious American public. 'Pataphysics, I
reiterate, has always existed, ever since a man first scratched his head to quell
the ...
Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley, 1986
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The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the ...
Part I: The Fraternal Contaminant: A Definition Followed by an Entertaining
Prelude Ever since the mind developed as a machine to think without fingers, '
pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions, has been around as a renegade
ra- ...
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Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics
Jarry launched the science in 1911 in his neo-scientific novel Exploits and
Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician. 'Pataphysics is defined there as "the
science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of
objects, ...
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Rene Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide
Julien Torma, supposedly a founding member of this institution (still in existence
today), with Raymond Queneau and Jacques Prévert, wrote Daumal a friendly
chiding letter, expressing his surprise to find that "Pataphysics can be married to
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Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt, 1999
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Thomas Chimes: Adventures in '
pataphysics
The book reveals how Chimes has found inspiration in the writings of Antonin Artaud, James Joyce, and especially Alfred Jarry, the iconoclastic playwright and novelist whose invented “’Pataphysics”––the “science of imaginary ...
Michael Taylor, Thomas Chimes, 2007
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Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of ...
Moreover, as I will explain, 'pataphysics challenges conventional notions of the
subject and, through its literary experiments, reveals the articulated subject at the
heart of objective observation. What 'pataphysics investigates scientifically in the
...
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The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred ...
publications have been dated,1 the College always intended to move beyond
this inspiration and apply pataphysics to other pastures. It also sought
pataphysical inspiration in other authors, such as Julien Torma, before its third
Vice-Curateur ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATAPHYSICS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pataphysics is used in the context of the following news items.
Life In Berlin: Gorka De Duo And Pataphysics
Pataphysics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the absurd. Though not spoken about in mainstream society, it has been followed and ... «NPR Berlin, Jul 15»
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Alfred Jarry was a surrealist playwright and founder of “Pataphysics”, which he defined as “the science of imaginary solutions”. He was also a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Attic Ted, Pataphysics
Armed with secondhand synthesizers and tracking-impaired VHS imagery, Pataphysics plunder an inexhaustible wellspring of spazz-happy ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
The Kennedy Center to Host 10th Annual MFA Playwrights …
He has also trained as a writer at the New School for Drama, the Kennedy Center, the Playwrights Foundation, and through the Pataphysics at ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
'Ubu Roi' presented at bergenPAC starting Thursday
"Pataphysics was Jarry's philosophical take on the world," says Michael Bias, artistic producing director of the Garage Theatre Group, which is ... «NorthJersey.com, Jun 15»
Review: Public Domain's meaning not apparent in “Apparent …
(French trickster Alfred Jarry defined “pataphysics” as “the science of imaginary solutions.”) Perhaps this whole enterprise is meant to be taken ... «ArtsATL, Jun 15»
Why JW Anderson Shot Its Fall Campaign in Estonia
Case in point: In Anderson's menswear collection for Fall, Tim Blanks found notes of pataphysics, Soul Train collars, ceramicist Lucie Rie, the ... «Style.com, Jun 15»
J.W. Anderson Stares Head-on Into the Future
... canvas-covered benches, no enigmatic show notes (last season's referred to “pataphysics,” among other mysterious ideas), and no fuss. «New York Magazine, Jun 15»
BWW Reviews: A Surreal JARRY INSIDE OUT at Spooky Action …
Jarry is also famous for creating the pseudo-field of Pataphysics, a "science of imaginary solutions" that is pointless to define and which seems ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
'Jarry Inside Out' at Spooky Action Theater
Such a notion lies at the root of Jarry's “pataphysics,” and such a notion would truly have been worth a theatrical exploration. As it now stands, ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, May 15»
