Acker, Kathy 1948-1997
Overview
| Works: | 362 works in 957 publications in 12 languages and 17,332 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Experimental fiction Science fiction Conference papers and proceedings Essays Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Interviews Detective and mystery fiction Personal correspondence |
| Roles: | Author, Lyricist, Actor, Contributor, Performer, Other, Writer of accompanying material, Librettist, Arranger, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Singer, Interviewee, Correspondent, Scenarist, Interviewer, Illustrator |
| Classifications: | PS3551.C44, 813.54 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Kathy Acker
- Star authors : literary celebrity in America by Joe Moran( )
- Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker by Maureen Frances Curtin( )
- Kathy Acker : writing the impossible by Georgina Colby( )
- Tactical readings : feminist postmodernism in the novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter by Nicola Pitchford( )
- The politics of Kathy Acker : revolution and the avant-garde by Emilia Borowska( )
- Kathy Acker and transnationalism by Polina Mackay( )
- Kathy Acker : punk writer by Margaret A Henderson( )
- After Kathy Acker : a literary biography by Chris Kraus( Book )
- Lust for life : on the writings of Kathy Acker( Book )
- Philosophy for spiders : on the low theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark( )
- Postmodernism and its others : the fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo by Jeffrey Ebbesen( Book )
- Blood and guts in high school by Kathy Acker( Book )
- Twentieth-Century literary criticism. Volume 191 by Lawrence J Trudeau( )
- I'm very into you : correspondence, 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker( Book )
- Hannibal Lecter, my father by Kathy Acker( Book )
- Learning for revolution : the work of Kathy Acker by Spencer Dew( Book )
- Kathy Acker : the last interview and other conversations by Kathy Acker( Book )
- Acker by Douglas A Martin( Book )
- Devouring institutions( Book )
- Interpreting radical metaphor in the experimental fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker by Victoria De Zwaan( Book )
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Kathy Acker
Empire of the senseless by
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36 editions published between 1988 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 543 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins
36 editions published between 1988 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 543 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins
Don Quixote : which was a dream by
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52 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 483 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collageroman over een vrouwelijke Don Quichote
52 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 483 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collageroman over een vrouwelijke Don Quichote
Great expectations by
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33 editions published between 1982 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era's cherished beliefs about life and art
33 editions published between 1982 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era's cherished beliefs about life and art
In memoriam to identity by
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29 editions published between 1990 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 432 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1990 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 432 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Blood and guts in high school by
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44 editions published between 1978 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover
44 editions published between 1978 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover
My mother : demonology by
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21 editions published between 1993 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In her 10th novel, Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma--sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity." -- Publisher
21 editions published between 1993 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In her 10th novel, Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma--sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity." -- Publisher
The artist in society : rights, roles, and responsibilities by
Carol Becker(
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3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A publication that boldly defends the vital role of the artist in society
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A publication that boldly defends the vital role of the artist in society
Bodies of work : essays by
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15 editions published between 1996 and 2017 in English and Spanish and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Provides coverage of various topics in cultural territory, which range from art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city. This book offers the author's views on such subjects as Peter Greenaway, Samuel Delany, Burroughs, de Sade and Cronenberg's Crash
15 editions published between 1996 and 2017 in English and Spanish and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Provides coverage of various topics in cultural territory, which range from art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city. This book offers the author's views on such subjects as Peter Greenaway, Samuel Delany, Burroughs, de Sade and Cronenberg's Crash
Pussy, king of the pirates by
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21 editions published between 1996 and 2021 in 3 languages and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island, in which two prostitutes--O and Ange--use their earnings to hire a band of women pirates to mount an expedition to find treasure. A tale of sex and sado-masochism with thoughts on the human condition
21 editions published between 1996 and 2021 in 3 languages and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island, in which two prostitutes--O and Ange--use their earnings to hire a band of women pirates to mount an expedition to find treasure. A tale of sex and sado-masochism with thoughts on the human condition
Essential Acker : the selected writings of Kathy Acker by
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5 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communiqué from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life
5 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communiqué from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life
Portrait of an eye : three novels by
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17 editions published between 1973 and 2020 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1973 and 2020 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Literal madness : three novels by
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11 editions published between 1987 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1987 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America : the destruction of the U.S. by
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6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--Jacket
6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--Jacket
Eurydice in the underworld by
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10 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and Turkish and held by 139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and Turkish and held by 139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Seven cardinal virtues by
Kathy Acker(
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4 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The seven deadly sins by
Elbridge S Brooks(
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4 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seven women writers take a new look a the oldest sins of them all. Includes writing from Kathy Acker , Leslie Dick , Zoe Fairbairns, Alison Fell, Sara Maitland, Agnes Owens and Michele Roberts
4 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seven women writers take a new look a the oldest sins of them all. Includes writing from Kathy Acker , Leslie Dick , Zoe Fairbairns, Alison Fell, Sara Maitland, Agnes Owens and Michele Roberts
Blood and guts in high school : plus two by
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14 editions published between 1984 and 1987 in English and German and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume presents three works by Kathy Acker, renowned for works that combine graphic eroticism with detailed politics and what the author calls 'pop content' including expositions of anti-social values and attacks on religion, education, and government
14 editions published between 1984 and 1987 in English and German and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume presents three works by Kathy Acker, renowned for works that combine graphic eroticism with detailed politics and what the author calls 'pop content' including expositions of anti-social values and attacks on religion, education, and government
Algeria : a series of invocations because nothing else works by
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6 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and French and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and French and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New York City in 1979 by
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15 editions published between 1979 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker
15 editions published between 1979 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker
Variety(
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13 editions published between 1983 and 2021 in English and French and held by 86 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Explores the question of voyeurism inherent in the watching of cinema by focusing on a woman, desperate for work, who takes a job selling tickets at a porno-movie theater. Initially apprehensive, she grows to like her position and begins to become a voyeur herself as she observes the clientele
13 editions published between 1983 and 2021 in English and French and held by 86 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Explores the question of voyeurism inherent in the watching of cinema by focusing on a woman, desperate for work, who takes a job selling tickets at a porno-movie theater. Initially apprehensive, she grows to like her position and begins to become a voyeur herself as she observes the clientele
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Related Identities
- DeLillo, Don
- Updike, John
- Moran, Joe 1970- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Curtin, Maureen Frances 1969- Author
- Colby, Georgina Author
- Carter, Angela 1940-1992
- Pitchford, Nicola Author
- Borowska, Emilia Author
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Acker, Kathy, American fiction American literature Art appreciation Artists and community Arts and society Authors, American Authors and readers Canon (Literature) Carter, Angela, Celebrities Child prostitution DeLillo, Don England English-speaking countries Experimental fiction Experimental fiction, American Feminism and literature Feminist fiction, American Feminist fiction, English France--Paris Human body in literature Human skin color in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Industrial revolution Invisible man (Ellison, Ralph) Lesbians Manners and customs Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf, Virginia) New York (State)--New York Popular culture Postmodernism (Literature) Prostitution Pynchon, Thomas Quests (Expeditions) Reed, Ishmael, Roth, Philip Science fiction Short stories, English Skin in literature Social classes Technique Touch in literature United States Updike, John Wark, McKenzie, Women Women and literature Women authors, American Women private investigators
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Alternative Names
Acher, Kathy
Acker, Kathy, 1948-
Black Tarantula
Black Tarantula 1948-1997
Black Tarantulea
Black Tarantulea, 1948-1997
Fear, Clay
Fear, Clay 1948-1997
Karen Lehmann
Kathy Acker
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Lehmann, Karen
Lehmann, Karen 1948-1997
Кеті Акер
Кэти Акер американская постмодернистская и феминистская писательница, драматург и эссеист
Леман К. 1947-1997
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קתי אקר סופרת, תסריטאית, משוררת ומסאית אמריקאית
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アッカー,キャシー
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凯西·阿克 American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
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