Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One: Christine Brooke-Rose

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The flagship issue fêtes Christine Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative voices of the twentieth century, whose fiction plays challenging games with form and structure, using grammatical constraints, multiple languages, and a dicing of genre styles and theoretical discourses as an integral component of her novels. Brooke-Rose is among an unfortunate revue of writers whose work is fading out of print, rarely part of critical or academic discussion.

This issue contains creative responses to her fiction and criticism, written with an eye to the general literary reader unfamiliar with her output, but with enough homage, parody, imitation, and criticism to excite her devoted fan base.

Table of Contents

Jean-Michel Rabaté — An Introduction
Editor — The di-facile-facere=>do/schwer/sweer/serio in the Work of Christine Brooke-Rose
Christine Brooke-Rose — Gold
Chretine Broke-Prose — The Logαλφαgeis of kLeubʰ: /la:f/; /lʌv/
Nadine Mainard — Le Diner
Christine Brooke-Rose — Aubade
Scott Beauchamp — Reading the Horoscope After Reading Christine
G.N. Forester — In the Labyrinth, translated by Christine Brooke-Rose: A Review
Christine Brooke-Rose — Troglodyte
Silvia Barlaam — Thru My Words
Wee Teck Lim — Landscapes of My Childhood
Christine Brooke-Rose — Le Pop
S.D. Stewart — Walking a Disappearing Line: Christine Brooke-Rose’s Treatment of Language Ambiguity in Xorandor
M.J. Nicholls — Reset
Christine Brooke-Rose — On Terms
David Auerbach — Christine Brooke-Rose and the Liberty of Literature
Emily Rhodes — A Long Way from San Francisco
Maria del Sapio Garbero — Interview January 1991
Joseph Andrew Darlington — Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Christine Brooke-Rose’s Distant Relatives
Joanne Blair-Hayley — Three Recovered Manuscript Excerpts
Nicolas Tredell — rite of Passage
Gottfried Gottlieb — Mein gott!
Jonathan Morton — The Origin of Myth/SubText
Christine Brooke-Rose — Review
Ali Millar — Talking to Mirrors
Françoise Gramet — Translation, Pastiche & Things
Christine Brooke-Rose — Review
Adam Guy — Brooke-Rose, Lastness
Nathan “N.R.” Gaddis — Prayer for the BURIED
Christine Brooke-Rose — Heaven’s Hospital
D. Lecter — Postscript: What Tess Would Have Said

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's English & Comparative Literature Department, has been a staunch supporter of the Press since before its inception, provided much needed assistance in acquiring republishing permission for the earlier works of Christine Brooke-Rose, and has written the Festschrift's Introduction.