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Hunter is looking to challenge the form of the conventional literary critical essay, to explore a disunified aesthetics that incorporates performance art pieces that are available online as website materials, or incorporated as typographic and visual a Disunified Aesthetics is quietly intelligent and brilliantly self-reflexive. There are books that document a period or a movement in late twentieth-century Canadian writing but none that offers as extensive a critical engagement with processes of reading the literary texts in question. Lianne Moyes, Department of English Studies, Universite de Montre al Lynette Hunter' s work is a superb example of the advantage of crossing disciplinary lines and combining creativity with critical discourse. Extremely valuable for scholars of Canadian literature, theatre and performance, critical theory (in all contexts), and women' s studies, Disunified Aesthetics is a dynamic and compelling study that frequently manages to escape the confines of form. Jane Koustas, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Brock University

Hunter is looking to challenge the form of the conventional literary critical essay, to explore a disunified aesthetics that incorporates performance art pieces that are available online as website materials, or incorporated as typographic and visual a Disunified Aesthetics is quietly intelligent and brilliantly self-reflexive. There are books that document a period or a movement in late twentieth-century Canadian writing but none that offers as extensive a critical engagement with processes of reading the literary texts in question. Lianne Moyes, Department of English Studies, Universite de Montreal Lynette Hunter's work is a superb example of the advantage of crossing disciplinary lines and combining creativity with critical discourse. Extremely valuable for scholars of Canadian literature, theatre and performance, critical theory (in all contexts), and women's studies, Disunified Aesthetics is a dynamic and compelling study that frequently manages to escape the confines of form. Jane Koustas, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Brock University

Disunified Aesthetics is quietly intelligent and brilliantly self-reflexive. There are books that document a period or a movement in late twentieth-century Canadian writing but none that offers as extensive a critical engagement with processes of reading the literary texts in question. Lianne Moyes, Department of English Studies, Universite de Montreal

""" Lynette Hunter' s work is a superb example of the advantage of crossing disciplinary lines and combining creativity with critical discourse. Extremely valuable for scholars of Canadian literature, theatre and performance, critical theory (in all contexts), and women' s studies, Disunified Aesthetics is a dynamic and compelling study that frequently manages to escape the confines of form."" Jane Koustas, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Brock University "" Disunified Aesthetics is quietly intelligent and brilliantly self-reflexive. There are books that document a period or a movement in late twentieth-century Canadian writing but none that offers as extensive a critical engagement with processes of reading the literary texts in question."" Lianne Moyes, Department of English Studies, Universite de Montre al "" Hunter is looking to challenge the form of the conventional literary critical essay, to explore a ""disunified aesthetics"" that incorporates performance art pieces that are available online as website materials, or incorporated as typographic and visual a"

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Lynette Hunter is Distinguished Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance at the University of California, Davis.

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