{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-information-overload-from-gertrude-stein-to-conceptual-writing-hardback-9780816694396","title":"The Poetics of Information Overload; From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing (Hardback) 9780816694396","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Poetics of Information Overload\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Stephens (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816694396\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 July 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 21\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"‘Isn’t the avant-garde always technological?’ asks Paul Stephens in this exciting book, which poses key questions and ventures revealing answers at every turn. He offers one of the freshest and smartest perspectives on the past century’s avant-garde, as well as an exceptionally clear view of the most exigent poetry from our contemporary moment.\"-Craig Dworkin, University of Utah and author of \u003ci\u003eNo Medium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Well-documented and elegantly written, Stephens's book demonstrates the vitality of literary and poetic studies in the age of big data criticism.\"-\u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Enthralling and rigorous.\"-\u003ci\u003eNeural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Information Overload\u003c\/i\u003e offers rewarding insights into these processes and establishes a compelling new perspective on the development of American poetry.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerikastudien\/American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Stephens offers an engaging and stimulating introduction to the breadth of the American avant-garde’s conscious poetic engagement with the data age, its anxieties, and its ongoing struggle for recuperation.\" -\u003ci\u003eBritish Society for Literature and Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformation overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Information Overload\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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 been preoccupied with the effects of new media since the advent of modernism. He continues with the postwar writing of Charles Olson, John Cage, Bern Porter, Hannah Weiner, Bernadette Mayer, Lyn Hejinian, and Bruce Andrews, and concludes with a discussion of conceptual writing produced in the past decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy reading these works in the context of information systems, Stephens shows how the poetry of the past century has had, as a primary focus, the role of data in human life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of Data\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. \"Reading At It\": Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis\u003cbr\u003e2. Bob Brown, \"Inforg\": The \"Readies\" at the Limits of Modernist Cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e3. Human University: Charles Olson and the Embodiment of Information\u003cbr\u003e4. \"When Information Rubs\/Against Information\": Poetry and Informatics in the Expanded Field in the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e5. Paradise and Informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the Posthuman Adamic\u003cbr\u003e6. Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information Asymmetry, and the Data Glut\u003cbr\u003eAfterword. \"Proliferating Raw Data\": Robert Grenier in the Expanded Field of New Media Poetics\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570085261592,"sku":"9780816694396","price":54.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-poetics-of-information-overload-from-gertrude-stein-to-conceptual-writing-hardback-9780816694396","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}