The interdisciplinary practice of Donato Mancini focuses mainly on poetry, bookworks, text based visual art and cultural criticism. Mancini's newest book is the poetry collection BUFFET WORLD (New Star Books, 2011).
The interdisciplinary practice of Donato Mancini focuses mainly on poetry, bookworks, text based visual art and cultural criticism. His two New Star books of procedural and visual writing, LIGATURES (2005) and ÆTHEL (2007) were each nominated for the ReLit Award, while LIGATURES received honorable mention in the Alcuin Book design awards. He is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Donato Mancini’s most popular book is Buffet World. Buffet World by. Donato Mancini. Want to Read savin. ant to Read.
Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Donato Mancini's books. Donato Mancini’s Followers (4). Donato Mancini’s books.
Buffet World is one of those books that is funny but also utterly serious. That’s because the sublime and ridiculous, the outlandish and quotidian, are, in the world Mancini describes, two sides of the same gilded coin. In the former, popular music serves as simply another mode of interpellation, commodifying pleasure as politics.
She'colates e Lembrancinhas Personalizadas.
There is still a great deal of investment, among writers, scholars and readers, in the idea of "canons" of "great books" that cultured persons are supposed to have read. Mancini's talk will introduce his proposal that certain. Mancini's talk will introduce his proposal that certain texts, positioned para-canonically (alongside or nearby canons) antagonize the mythologies of literary canons. While functioning as "paracanonic," texts undermine the privileged aesthetic certainty that canons embody.
Donato Mancini He is the author of four books of procedural and visual writings: Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007), Buffet World (2011), and Fact 'N' Value.
Donato Mancini view moreThe interdisciplinary practice of Donato Mancini focuses mainly on bookworks, poetry, and text-based visual art. He is the author of four books of procedural and visual writings: Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007), Buffet World (2011), and Fact 'N' Value (2011). His collaborative visual works have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Cuba.
Donato Mancini is the author of Ligatures (2005), Æthel (2007), Buffet World (2011), Fact ‘N’ Value (2011), You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012), and Loitersack (2014). He lives in Vancouver.