02961nam 2200565 450 991046058490332120200520144314.01-4529-4409-1(CKB)3710000000459617(EBL)2145981(MiAaPQ)EBC2145981(OCoLC)917889111(MdBmJHUP)muse48952(Au-PeEL)EBL2145981(CaPaEBR)ebr11088028(CaONFJC)MIL821596(EXLCZ)99371000000045961720150817h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe poetics of information overload from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing /Paul StephensMinneapolis, Minnesota ;London, England :University of Minnesota Press,2015.©20151 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-9441-9 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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...American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry21st centuryHistory and criticismPoetry, ModernHistory and criticismLiterature and technologyElectronic books.American poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.Poetry, ModernHistory and criticism.Literature and technology.811/.509112Stephens Paul1974-1051699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460584903321The poetics of information overload2482398UNINA