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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816075903321
• Autore: Stephens Paul <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4529-4409-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.509112
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism; Poetry, Modern - History and criticism; Literature and technology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...