Reading Uncreative Writing Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
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, Vanes
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Reading Uncreative Writing Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
David Kaufmann
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Series editor Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anderson Hall, Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics promotes and pursues topics in the burgeoning field of 20th and 21st century poetics. Critical and scholarly work on poetry and poetics of interest to the series includes social location in its relationships to subjectivity, to the construction of authorship, to oeuvres, and to careers; poetic reception and dissemination (groups, movements, formations, institutions); the intersection of poetry and theory; questions about language, poetic authority, and the goals of writing; claims in poetics, impacts of social life, and the dynamics of the poetic career as these are staged and debated by poets and inside poems.
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David Kaufmann
Reading Uncreative Writing Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
David Kaufmann George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics ISBN 978-3-319-62291-0 ISBN 978-3-319-62292-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62292-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017945809 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Getty Images/Mischa Keijser Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
PREFACE
In the following pages, I argue that Uncreative Writing is not quite the thing that either its defenders or its detractors say it is. As a set of practices, it is not in itself aesthetically or politi
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