The Poetics of Information Overload : From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing /

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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, Pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephens, Paul, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry, Modern.
Poetics.
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and technology.
Information technology in literature.
American poetry.
Literature > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Technologie de l'information dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Poetique.
Litterature et technologie.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Poetry, Modern > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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 1960s
  • Paradise and informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the posthuman adamic
  • Vanguard total index: conceptual writing, information asymmetry, and the data glut.

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