Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

by Marjorie Perloff and Professor Marjorie Perloff

Book Overview

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information-- a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people's words--framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226660613
• ISBN13: 9780226660615
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"