Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking
volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic,
novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects. With the ascent
of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production
are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and
other as-yet-unnamed genres while traditional genres and
media—the lyric, the novel, the book—have been transformed.
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought-provoking
volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and
programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and
which views them instead as technical objects. Brian Kim
Stefans considers the problems that arise when discussing these
progressive texts in relation to more traditional print-based
poetic texts. He questions the influence of game theory and digital
humanities rhetoric on poetic production, and how non-digital
works, such as contemporary works of lyric poetry, are influenced
by the recent ubiquity of social media, the power of search
engines, and the public perceptions of language in a time of nearly
universal surveillance. Word Toys offers new readings of
canonical avant-garde writers such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson,
major successors such as Charles Bernstein, Alice Notley, and Wanda
Coleman, mixed-genre artists including Caroline Bergvall, Tan Lin,
and William Poundstone, and lyric poets such as Harryette Mullen
and Ben Lerner. Writers that trouble the poetry/science divide such
as Christian Bök, and novelists who have embraced digital
technology such as Mark Z. Danielewski and the elusive Toadex
Hobogrammathon, anchor reflections on the nature of creativity in a
world where authors collaborate, even if unwittingly, with machines
and networks. In addition, Stefans names provocative new
genres—among them the nearly formless “undigest” and the
transpacific “miscegenated script”—arguing by example that
interdisciplinary discourse is crucial to the development of
scholarship about experimental work.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Modern & Contemporary Poetics |
Release date: |
July 2017 |
Authors: |
Brian Kim Stefans
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8173-5895-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8173-5895-1 |
Barcode: |
9780817358952 |
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