The poetics of information overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing / / Paul Stephens
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| Autore: |
Stephens Paul <1974->
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| Titolo: |
The poetics of information overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing / / Paul Stephens
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.509112 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
| American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| Poetry, Modern - History and criticism | |
| Literature and technology | |
| 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The poetics of information overload |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4409-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910798075003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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