Postmodern Culture Table of Contents v3n01 (September 1992) URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v3n01-contents.txt POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Number 1 (September, 1992) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL FICTION ISSUE Guest Editor: Larry McCaffery Editors: Eyal Amiran, Issue Editor John Unsworth Book Review Editor: Jim English Managing Editor: Nancy Cooke List Manager: Chris Barrett Editorial Assistants: John Jenrette Jonathan Beasley Editorial Board: Kathy Acker Chimalum Nwankwo Sharon Bassett Patrick O'Donnell Michael Berube Elaine Orr Marc Chenetier Marjorie Perloff Greg Dawes David Porush R. 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McGann Chris Straayer Stuart Moulthrop Paul Trembath Larysa Mykyta Greg Ulmer Phil Novak ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AUTHOR & TITLE FN FT Masthead, Contents, and CONTENTS 992 Instructions for retrieving files Guest Editor's Introduction MCCAFFER 992 Kathy Acker, "Obsession" ACKER 992 Robert Coover, The Titles Sequence from COOVER 992 _The Adventures of Lucky Pierre_ Ricardo Cruz, "Five Days of Bleeding" CRUZ 992 Rikki Ducornet, an excerpt from _Birdland_ DUCORNET 992 Rob Hardin, "Dressed to Kill Yourself" HARDIN 992 Annemarie Kemeny, "Attempts on Life" KEMENY 992 Marc Laidlaw, "Great Breakthroughs in LAIDLAW 992 Darkness (Being, Early Entries From _The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography_)" William T. Vollmann, "Incarnations of the VOLLMANN 992 Murderer" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: John Tranter, "Brekdown" POP-CULT 992 FROM: PMC-TALK Two Threads: Cladistics and Cut-Ups PMC-TALK 992 (Excerpted from the Discussion Group PMC-TALK@NCSUVM, 7/92-8/92) REVIEWS: Bill Millard, "Bargaincounterculturalcapitalism: REVIEW-1 992 Gear and Writhing at the New Music Seminar." A review of the New Music Seminar and New York Nights, June 15-21, 1992, New York City. Russell Potter, "The Black (W)hole of Bataille: REVIEW-2 992 A Genealogy of Postmodernism?" A review of _The Accursed Share_ vols. 2 & 3, by Georges Bataille, and _Heterology and the Postmodern_, by Julian Pefanis. Alan Aycock, "Post-Literacy." A review of REVIEW-3 992 _Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing With Computers_, Myron Tuman, ed. Susan Schultz, "Postmodern Promos." A review of REVIEW-4 992 _A Poetics_, by Charles Bernstein, and _Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media_, by Marjorie Perloff. Kevin Kiernan, "La Condition McGann." A review REVIEW-5 992 of _The Textual Condition_, by Jerome McGann. Rebecca Stephens, "Postmodern Woolf." A review of REVIEW-6 992 _Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself_, by Pamela L. Caughie. Announcements and Advertisements NOTICES 992 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TO RETRIEVE SINGLE ITEMS LISTED ABOVE, send a mail message to listserv@ncsuvm or listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu containing as its one and only line the command get [fn ft] pmc-list f=mail (replace [fn ft] with the filename and filetype, as listed in the table of contents, for the file you want to receive). There should be no blank lines, spaces, or other text preceding this line. 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