1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781581203321

Autore

Goldsmith Kenneth

Titolo

Uncreative Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Managing Language in the Digital Age

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

808.00285/4678

808.002854678

Soggetti

Authors -- Effect of technological innovations on

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Creative writing -- Data processing

Creative writing -- Study and teaching

Literature and technology

Literature and the Internet

Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism

Poetics

Literature and technology - Data processing

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Study and teaching

Creative writing - Effect of technological innovations on

Creative writing - History and criticism

Authors

Modernism (Literature)

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new



challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist.In addition to