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Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Marjorie Perloff
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Description for Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Hardcover. 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? This title explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 colour plates, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, ... Read more
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 intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226660615
SKU
V9780226660615
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About Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the author or editor of many books, including Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary and The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
"Unoriginal Genius showcases, yet again, why Marjorie Perloff is the Peggy Guggenheim for the avant-garde in poetry. She demonstrates why lauded, modern poets (many of whom have questioned the values of both 'the original' and 'the creative') might prefer instead to 'cheat' on their assignments by handing in poems that steal words and remix lines, verbatim, from the databases of ... Read more