LEADER 02961nam 2200565 450 001 9910460584903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4529-4409-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459617 035 $a(EBL)2145981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2145981 035 $a(OCoLC)917889111 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48952 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2145981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11088028 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL821596 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459617 100 $a20150817h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe poetics of information overload $efrom Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing /$fPaul Stephens 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-9441-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aInformation 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... 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPoetry, Modern$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and technology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPoetry, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 676 $a811/.509112 700 $aStephens$b Paul$f1974-$01051699 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460584903321 996 $aThe poetics of information overload$92482398 997 $aUNINA