Fugue Figure - 9781606353561

Fugue FigureAuthor(s): Michael McKee Green, Khaled Mattawa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kent State University Press, United States\nImprint: Kent State University Press\nISBN-13: 9781606353561, 978-1606353561\nSynopsis\nThe book states plainly that both its speaker and the speakers mother have suffered neardeadly head injuries (when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did, my head: / rotting pear), resulting in loss of memory. \n\nHowever, rather than let a taxonomy like family curse sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues ([url] the condition of having ones identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue ([url] interweaving song). \n\nJohnathan Culler writes that the fundamental characteristic of the lyric . . . is not the description and interpretation of a past event, but the iterative and utterable performanceof an event in the lyric present, in the special now of lyric articulation. The lyric in Fugue Figure allows the unspeakable past to be uttered in the?