The poetics of information overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing / Paul Stephens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Paul, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

Literature and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, England : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Summary:

Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control. Beginning with Gertrude Stein and Bob Brown, Stephens explores how writers have...

Contents:

"Reading at it": Gertrude Stein, information overload, and the makings of Americanitis

Bob Brown, "inforg": the "readies" at the limits of modernist cosmopolitanism

Human university: Charles Olson and the embodiment of information

"When information rubs/against information": poetry and informatics in the expanded field in the 1960's

Paradise and informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the posthuman adamic

Vanguard total index: conceptual writing, information asymmetry, and the data glut.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4409-1

OCLC:

917889111