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The work of art in the age of deindustrialization / Jasper Bernes.
LIBRA PS325 .B47 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernes, Jasper, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Post 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Poetry--Social aspects--United States.
- Poetry.
- Capitalism and literature--United States.
- Capitalism and literature.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Poetry--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Work in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have seen the shift from an economy based on the production of goods to one based on the provision of services, the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce, and the emergence of new digital technologies that have transformed the way people work. This book argues that art and literature not only reflected the transformation of the workplace but anticipated and may have contributed to it as well, providing some of the terms through which resistance to labor was expressed. As firms continue to tout creativity and to reorganize in response to this resistance, they increasingly rely on models of labor that derive from values and ideas found in the experimental poetry and conceptual art of decades past.
- Contents:
- Lyric and the service sector : Frank O'Hara at work
- John Ashbery's free indirect labor
- The poetry of feedback
- The feminization of speedup
- Art, work, and endlessness in the 2000s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780804796415
- 0804796416
- OCLC:
- 960968990
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