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Mark Z. Danielewski is routinely hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, and he is celebrated by critics and fans alike. Revolutionary Leaves collects essays that have come out of the first academic conference on Danielewski's fiction that took place in Munich in 2011, which brought together younger and established scholars to discuss his works from a variety of perspectives.
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Revolutionary Leaves Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski Edited by Sascha Pöhlmann Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski, Edited by Sascha Pöhlmann This book first published 2012 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2012 by Sascha Pöhlmann and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4146-3, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4146-7 CONTENTS Acknowledgments .................................................................................... vii The Democracy of Two: Whitmanian Politics in Only Revolutions........... 1 Sascha Pöhlmann Writing in the Electronic Age.................................................................... 33 Hans-Peter Söder Hauntingly Sweet: Home as Labyrinth and Hospitality in House of Leaves.................................................................................... 43 Aleksandra Bida Textual Transformations: Experience, Mediation, and Reception in House of Leaves..................................................................................... 63 Nathalie Aghoro Danielewski, or, Metacommentary as Literary Production ...................... 77 Julius Greve “Folding, Unfolding, Refolding”: Mark Z. Danielewski’s Differential Novel House of Leaves............................................................................. 99 Ridvan Askin “A House of One’s Own”: House of Leaves as a Modernist Text.......... 123 Sebastian Huber (Im)Possible Spaces: Technology and Narrative in House of Leaves..... 137 Brianne Bilsky “You Were There”: The Allways Ontologies of Only Revolutions ........ 167 Alison Gibbons vi Table of Contents Going in Circles: The Experience of Reading Only Revolutions............ 183 Joe Bray The Surface of Sense, The Surface of Sensation and the Surface of Reference: Geometry and Topology in the Works of Mark Z. Danielewski.......................................................................... 199 Hanjo Berressem Contributors............................................................................................ 223 Index....................................................................................................... 227 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editor would like to thank everyone who helped in various ways to make the Revolutionary Leaves conference—a joint venture of Junior Year in Munich and the Amerika-Institut of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich—possible and, most of all, fun: Hans-Peter Söder, Sommer Forschner, Klaus Benesch, Thea Diesner, Martina Bähring, Lisa Terrio, Brian Wilt, Gerhard Falkner, Nora Matocza-Falkner, Caitlin Hahn, Constantin Lieb, Donald Scott Peterson, and Veronika Schmideder. The editor is also indebted to Aleksandra Bida, Brianne Bilsky, Andrew Estes, Amanda Millar, Amy Mohr and Daniel Rees for their help with the manuscript. In memory of Hedwig Kukla and Walter Reichel. THE DEMOCRACY OF TWO: WHITMANIAN POLITICS IN ONLY REVOLUTIONS SASCHA PÖHLMANN Anyone