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Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Marjorie Perloff
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Paperback. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 418. Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight: 478.
In "Unoriginal Genius" Marjorie Perloff explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. Paradoxically, she argues, this 'unoriginal' poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, 'personal' than the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and '90s. Perloff traces this poetics of "Unoriginal Genius" from one of its paradigmatic works, Walter Benjamin's encyclopedic "Arcades Project", a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian Concretism ... Read more
In "Unoriginal Genius" Marjorie Perloff explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. Paradoxically, she argues, this 'unoriginal' poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, 'personal' than the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and '90s. Perloff traces this poetics of "Unoriginal Genius" from one of its paradigmatic works, Walter Benjamin's encyclopedic "Arcades Project", a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian Concretism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226660622
SKU
V9780226660622
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About Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English 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.
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