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

by Paul Stephens

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816694419
• ISBN13: 9780816694419
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"