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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
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Paperback. Editor(s): Dworkin, Craig; Goldsmith, Kenneth. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1014.
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as poetry pregnant with thought. Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, ... Read more
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as poetry pregnant with thought. Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1014g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810127111
SKU
V9780810127111
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About Unknown
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (2004), Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (2006), The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (2008), and, with Marjorie Perloff, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (2009). Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called ... Read more
Reviews for Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Compiled by star practitioner Kenneth Goldsmith and lead academic liaison Craig Dworkin to be not so much a treasury of verse as an argument-by-demonstration, this anthology will excite the reader who wants more than normal literature gives her, as well as annoy-and, perhaps, haunt-the one who values her belief that normal literature gives her everything already. -Los Angeles Review ... Read more