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Johannes Contag

DISTILLING TEXTUAL TONE: TWO AGRAMMATIC COLLAGES
U.S. CRIMINAL CODE vs. THE POETRY OF OSCAR WILDE

 

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Contag

Johannes Contag is retranslating Kleist’s stories when not writing orchestral scores for silent films. He teaches mechanics of stage production at Massey University. Sources: U.S. Code, Title 18—Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Wilde: Poems (1881): ‘Silentium Amoris’, ‘The Garden of Eros’, ‘La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente’, ‘In the Gold Room’.