The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe

The Literary Terrorism of Harold JaffeThe Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe is the twenty ninth issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, a Festschrift built around one of American docufiction's most uncompromising practitioners. Eckhard Gerdes edited it, which makes JEF one of the few houses to issue a critical book about Jaffe rather than only reprint him. The title's phrase is Jaffe's own register. His docufiction took news reports and court records and shifted them by a line or a

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it is a book about Barth

and the rare JEF title that is a document of the field rather than a work of fiction within it

" Deptula takes that phrase as the key to the whole

The dilogy braided that formal scheme with autobiographical material

a writer who functions as Emorine's semi-autobiographical alter ego rather than the author himself

Bearded Bards & Splitting Hairs is the seventeenth issue of the Journal of Experimental Fiction

this one holds to one argument across its length

"The Greatest Place on Earth" is an absurdist allegory: a respected psychology professor is recruited by "The Bureau" to investigate a town whose residents have collectively gone mad

Longing Letters Lasting

the novel stops being a novel and becomes a play

more than twenty years in the making