Reading Uncreative Writing

Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-87282-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufmann, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 The Author as Collector: Kenneth Goldsmith’sAestheticism.- 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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.