| rdfs:comment | - Camelia Elias (October 22, 1968) is an associate professor of American Studies at Roskilde University. She has made significant contributions to comparative studies, cultural studies, and American studies. Her book The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre [1] is the first history of the fragment to appear in English, and it is also the first attempt at producing a consistent taxonomy of literary and critical fragments. The fragments are categorised according to function, not author intention, and the study addresses a number of questions: What constitutes the fragment, when the fragment can only be defined a posteriori? Does the fragment begin on its own, or is it begun by others, writers and critics? Does it acquire a name of its own, or is it labelled by others
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| abstract | - Camelia Elias (October 22, 1968) is an associate professor of American Studies at Roskilde University. She has made significant contributions to comparative studies, cultural studies, and American studies. Her book The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre [1] is the first history of the fragment to appear in English, and it is also the first attempt at producing a consistent taxonomy of literary and critical fragments. The fragments are categorised according to function, not author intention, and the study addresses a number of questions: What constitutes the fragment, when the fragment can only be defined a posteriori? Does the fragment begin on its own, or is it begun by others, writers and critics? Does it acquire a name of its own, or is it labelled by others? All these questions revolve around issues of agency, and they are best discussed in terms of performativity, which means seeing fragments as acts: acts of literature, acts of reading, acts of writing. The book demonstrates how a poetics of the fragment as a performative genre can be created, situating the fragment both as literature and as a phenomenon within postmodern criticism against the background of philosophy, art history, and theology. Within cultural studies, Elias has edited two books for the Cultural Text Studies series published by Aalborg University Press (CTS1: An Introduction; CTS2: Transatlantic (both appeared at the end of 2005)) In the field of American studies, she has published a number of articles on authors such as Lynn Emanuel, David Markson, Raymond Federman, Andrei Codrescu, Charles Simic, Eva Hoffman, Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Herman Melville, Rebecca Miller and a host of others.
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