Unoriginal genius : poetry by other means in the new century
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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, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and 90s.
TitleUnoriginal genius : poetry by other means in the new century
Author
Place of publicationChicago
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Year of publication2010
Pagination199 p.
Dimensions23 cm
Materialboek
ISBN978-0-226-66062-2
Subjectpoetry, conceptual writing, creativity
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| B-2017/161 | ,7.038.41,PE:R"2010 | Available |
| Copy number | B-2017/161 |
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| Loan status | Available |