| Description |
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Revenge of the text -- Language as material -- Anticipating instability -- Toward a poetics of hyperrealism -- Why appropriation? -- Infallible processes: what writing can learn from visual art -- Retyping on the road -- Parsing the new illegibility -- Seeding the data cloud -- The inventory and the ambient -- Uncreative writing in the classroom: a disorientation -- Provisional language. |
| Summary |
"Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, such as cutting and pasting, databasing, identity ciphering, and programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? As Goldsmith shows, the Internet and digital environment present writers with new opportunities to rethink creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have engaged in 'uncreative writing.' Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Internet searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices adopted by writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol. Yet, more than just a reconfiguration of texts, uncreative writing can also be suffused with emotion and offer new ways of thinking about identity, the making of meaning, and the ethos of our time." -- Publisher. |
| Subject |
Literature and technology.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Creative writing -- Data processing.
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Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
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Authors -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Literature and the Internet.
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Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Poetics.
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| ISBN |
9780231149907 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0231149905 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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9780231149914 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0231149913 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
40019859122 |
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