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, 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.

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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, 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.

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Reading Uncreative Writing: Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric

Reading Uncreative Writing: Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric

by David Kaufmann
Reading Uncreative Writing: Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric

Reading Uncreative Writing: Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric

by David Kaufmann

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319872827
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 08/24/2018
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages: 169
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 The Author as Collector: Kenneth Goldsmith’s Aestheticism.- 3 Isn’t It All Just Bullshit?”: From Uncreative Writing to Warhol and Back.- 4 Writing While White: Uncreative Writing, Racism and Disavowal.- 5 For Expression: Uncreative Writing, Affect and Critique.- 6 Approaching The Transsubjective: How To Do Things With the MMPI.- 7 Conclusion.

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