Reading Uncreative Writing

Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric

By:

David Kaufmann

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Series:

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

October 24th, 2017

Author

David Kaufmann

Series

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Pages

169

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

VII, 169 p.

ISBN-13

9783319622910

Product ID

26841023

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