Overview
- Provides a new perspective on contemporary accounts of the lyric poem
- Analyzes the often controversial points of view surrounding uncreative writing
- Explores Neo-Conceptualist writings relationship with aesthetics and affect
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines Uncreative Writing—the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry—against a decade of controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan, Craig Dworkin, Dan Farrell and Katie Degentesh to demonstrate that Uncreative Writing is not a revolutionary break from lyric tradition as its proponents claim. Nor is it a racist, reactionary capitulation to neo-liberalism as its detractors argue. Rather, this monograph shows that Uncreative Writing’s real innovations and weaknesses become clearest when read in the context of the very lyric that it claims to have left behind.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Kaufmann teaches literature at George Mason University. He is the author of The Business of Common Life (1995) and Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works (2010), as well as a number of articles on poetry and theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading Uncreative Writing
Book Subtitle: Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
Authors: David Kaufmann
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62292-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62291-0Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87282-7Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62292-7Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 169
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Creative Writing