Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

Name: Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
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ISBN: 9780226660622

ISBN-10: 0226660621

ISBN-13: 9780226660622

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marjorie Perloff

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English