The Literature of Waste

[Ian Livingston]

One of my favorite comments on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqpaWUFHdo

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've always associated the use of the acronym W.A.S.T.E. in COL49 as
> perhaps a double reference to getting "wasted" and to wasted human lives,
> i.e. to those that are marginalized from the presented mainstream. I never
> read it as connected to the waste of consumerist society on an
> environmental level - though the opening Tupperware party is a warning
> sign. Just curious how/if the novel poses and illuminates environmental
> issues (though I see that discard studies covers more than the strictly
> environmental).
>
> Laura
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 11:43 AM Nicole Bennett <nlbennett at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I have this book and, as an English lit. academic interested in discard
> > studies, use it often in my research. Unfortunately, the author overlooks
> > the centrality of waste in books like *The Crying of Lot 49* and
> *Gravity's
> > Rainbow* (she works mostly on medieval literature). There is some
> > interesting stuff on more recent authors (Beckett, Calvino, Eliot
> > [obviously]), but I also found the style of the book to be a bit
> haphazard
> > for my tastes. It's more of an observation of the different ways the
> > concept of waste functions across a vast range of literature. Definitely
> a
> > great reference, though, for those who can afford it. Academic books are
> so
> > stubbornly and frustratingly pricey.
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 8:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > > Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:34 AM
> > > Subject:
> > > To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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