Arielle Greenberg (born 1972) is a feminist poet and the poetry editor of ''

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''. She named and described the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology ''Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics'', which she co-edited with Lara Glenum.

Biography

Greenberg was an assistant professor in the English Department at Columbia College

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. She is now living with her family in Belfast, Maine. They are working on an oral history-style book on the

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in that area.Greenberg, Arielle. "Biography." ArielleGreenberg.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 October 2011. .

Concept of The Gurlesque

"The words of the gurlesque „luxuriate: they roll around in the sensual while avoiding the sharpness of overt messages, preferring the curve of sly mockery to theory or revelation‟.Sheehy, John. "Pleasure in the Gap: Kate Lille'ys Cross-Pollinated Poetic and Academic Discourses." Sydney Studies. 35. (2009): 100-101. Web. 30 October 2011. . " "The term Gurlesque comes from a combination of "1. The

Carnivalesque The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's ''Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics'' and was further dev ...

. 2. The

Burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

. (and the Neo-Burlesque).3. The

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s... Also, the

Grotesque Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...

."Greenberg, Arielle. Gurlesque. Saturnalia, 2006. 2. Print. " The term describes a very wide range of things and is a concept that even Greenberg has had trouble pinning down. Lara Glenum describes it in her introduction to Gurlesque as a kitschy, campy take on feminism. Gurlesque is an

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view of feminism which followed many of the same ideas of disrupting

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that allowed the

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look and Riot Grrrl "movement" to take hold. Glenum and Greenberg both insist that, like the Riot Grrll "movement", Gurlesque poetics is "not a movement or a camp or a clique." The concept of the Gurlesque merely strings together a common strain that Greenberg noticed flowing through modern feminist poetry in the early 2000s.

Works

Books of Poetry *"''Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials''" *"''Given''" *"''Locally Made Panties"'' *"''My Kafka Century''" *"''Share Her"'' *"''Slice"'' Non-Fiction Work *"''Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America''" Editor of *"''Home/Birth: A Poemic''"; *"''Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics''"; *"''Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days''"; *"''Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections''"; *"''Mirror-Fucation''" and *"''Mister Hay's Trippy Moebius''". *"''Pisacho''". Greenberg currently lives in

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with her family.http://ariellegreenberg.net/contact/

Biography

Concept of The Gurlesque

Works

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