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Technomodern Poetics

Author : Todd F. Tietchen
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938590X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Technomodern Poetics written by Todd F. Tietchen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the second World War, the term “technology” came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known writers of the era described the tensions between technical, literary, and media cultures at the dawn of the Digital Age. Poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, and Frank O’Hara, among others, anthologized in Donald Allen’s iconic The New American Poetry, 1945–1960, provided a canon of work that has proven increasingly relevant to our technological present. Elaborating on the theories of contemporaneous technologists such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, J. C. R. Licklider, and a host of noteworthy others, these artists express the anxieties and avant-garde impulses they wrestled with as they came to terms with a complex array of issues raised by the dawning of the nuclear age, computer-based automation, and the expansive reach of electronic media. As author Todd Tietchen reveals, even as these writers were generating novel forms and concerns, they often continued to question whether such technological changes were inherently progressive or destructive. With an undeniable timeliness, Tietchen’s book is sure to appeal to courses in modern English literature and American studies, as well as among fans of Beat writers and early Cold War culture.

The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry

Author : Matt Theado
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979946
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry written by Matt Theado and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Black Mountain and Beat Generation writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. The division of writers as Beat or Black Mountain has hindered our understanding of the ways that these poets developed from mutual influences, benefitted from direct relations, and overlapped their boundaries. This collection of academic essays refines and adds context to Beat Studies and Black Mountain Studies by investigating the groups’ intersections and undercurrents. One goal of the book is to deconstruct the Beat and Black Mountain labels in order to reveal the shifting and fluid relationships among the individual poets who developed a revolutionary poetics in the 1950s and beyond. Taken together, these essays clarify the radical experimentation with poetics undertaken by these poets.

Chinese Whispers

Author : Yunte Huang
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822664
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Whispers written by Yunte Huang and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning. In this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the transpacific context. “Chinese whispers” refers to an American children’s game dating to the years of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of the phrase in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Huang investigates how poetry, always to a significant degree untranslatable, complicates the transpacific production of meanings and values. The book opens with the efforts of I. A. Richards, arguably the founder of Anglo-American academic literary criticism, to promote Basic English in China in the early twentieth century. It culminates by resituating Ernest Fenollosa’s famous essay “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry,” exploring the ways in which Chinese has historically enriched but also entrapped the Western conception of language.

Cybernetic Aesthetics

Author : Heather A. Love
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009387480
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Cybernetic Aesthetics written by Heather A. Love and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that modernist literature creatively negotiated the same issues of data processing that cybernetics technologies would later tackle.

Ecospatiality

Author : Lowell Wyse
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387759
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ecospatiality written by Lowell Wyse and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. Building on the work of scholars in geography, sociology, ecocriticism, and geocriticism, this book articulates the theory of ecospatiality: an understanding of place as simultaneously spatial, ecological, and historical. In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not-unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than the human relationship with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, we should recognize how it underpins and intertwines with human experience. Fortunately, literature can help us think through how place operates. Lowell Wyse shows that texts can be understood as works of literary cartography. Focusing on works of nonfiction and fiction whose primary settings are on the North American continent, Ecospatiality demonstrates how these narratives rely on realistic literary geography to invoke, and sometimes retell, important aspects of environmental history within particular communities and bioregions.

Poems of the American Empire

Author : Jen Hedler Phillis
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Poems of the American Empire written by Jen Hedler Phillis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the American Empire argues that careful attention to a particular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history of American global power. The period that Phillis covers—from Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930 to Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire in 2012—roughly matches what some consider the ascent and decline of the American empire. The diverse poems that appear in this book are united by their use of epic forms in the lyric poem, a combination that violates a fundamental framework of both genres’ relationship to time. This book makes a groundbreaking intervention by insisting that lyric time is key to understanding the genre. These poems demonstrate the lyric form’s ability to represent the totality of history, making American imperial power visible in its fullness. Neither strictly an empty celebration of American exceptionalism nor a catalog of atrocities, Poems of the American Empire allows us to see both.

Profiles and Plotlines

Author : Katherine D. Johnston
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388941
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Profiles and Plotlines written by Katherine D. Johnston and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. These stories are being told inside boardrooms, banks, presidential briefings, police stations, advertising agencies, and technology companies. And so, to the extent that data has taken up storytelling, literature must take up data. After all, profiling coincides with character development; surveillance reflects point of view; and data points track as plot points in tales of the political economy. In Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Fiction and poetry are capable of addressing precisely that for which algorithms cannot or do not account: the effects of profile culture; the ideologies and supposed truth-power of data; the gendered and racialized dynamics of watching and being watched; and the politics of who counts and what gets counted. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how the claims of data surveillance serve to make lives seem legible, intelligible, and sometimes even expendable.

The Global Frontier

Author : Eric Strand
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389018
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Global Frontier written by Eric Strand and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the Western frontier of self-reinvention and spatial expansion opened up through the explosion of the global travel industry. The Global Frontier shows that a variety of postwar literary travelers sought personal freedom and cultural enrichment outside their nation's borders, including Black, female, and queer writers. But the price of incorporation into a transnational leisure class was complicity in postwar American imperialism and the rejection of 1930s social commitments. Eric Strand argues that capitalist globalization has enabled creative expression for marginalized identities, and that present-day humanists are the descendants of writers such as William S. Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Reverse Colonization

Author : David M. Higgins
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387856
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Reverse Colonization written by David M. Higgins and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it’s like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous, anti-imperial victimhood—the sense that white men, in particular, are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the presidential election from being “stolen from them.” Higgins shows that this reverse colonization stance depends upon a science fictional logic that achieved dominance within imperial fantasy during the 1960s and has continued to gain momentum ever since. By identifying with fantastic forms of victimhood, subjects who already enjoy social hegemony are able to justify economic inequality, expansions of police and military power, climatological devastation, new articulations of racism, and countless other forms of violence—all purportedly in the name of security, self-defense, and self-protection.

Writing Wars

Author : David F. Eisler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388658
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Writing Wars written by David F. Eisler and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- "Stick to Her Farms and Farmer Folk": World War I and the Origins of Combat Gnosticism -- "Tell It Like It Was": World War II and the Institutional Curation of Memory -- "You Had to Be There": Vietnam and the Veteran's Consolidation of Authority -- "You Don't Have to Be a Veteran": The All-Volunteer Force and the Dispersion of Authority -- "The New Battle": The Civil-Military Gap and the Shock of Coming Home -- "The Other Side of COIN": Counterinsurgency and the Ethics of Memory -- "You Volunteered to Get Screwed": Public Trust and the Literary Representation of the Professional Military -- Appendix: The American Novels of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2020.

Art Essays

Author : Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388127
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Art Essays written by Alexandra Kingston-Reese and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as Zadie Smith, Chris Kraus, Teju Cole, Orhan Pamuk, and Jhumpa Lahiri. From the art of Sonia Delaunay to contemporary photography, from the docks of Malaysia to Leonora Carrington’s home in Mexico City, and from reflections on modern Black British paintings to meditations on the female gaze, these essays bring together blazing insights to the visual world, with personal, intimate reflections. With an introduction by literary critic and editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Art Essays is an enthralling vision of a new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture. Contributors: Chloe Aridjis, Tash Aw, Claire-Louise Bennett, Teju Cole, Geoff Dyer, Sheila Heti, Katie Kitamura, Chris Kraus, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ben Lerner, Orhan Pamuk, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Heidi Sopinka, Hanya Yanagihara

Novel Competition

Author : Evan Brier
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389409
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Novel Competition written by Evan Brier and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. In the context of this competition, developments like the emergence of Rolling Stone magazine, regional publishers, Black studies programs, and “New Hollywood” became key events in the life of the American novel. Novels by Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, Toni Cade Bambara, Cynthia Ozick, and Larry McMurtry—among many others—are recast as prescient reports on, and formal responses to, a world suddenly less hospitable to old claims about the novel’s value. This book brings to light the story of the novel’s perceived decline and the surprising ways American fiction transformed in its wake.

Contested Terrain

Author : Keith Wilhite
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388585
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Contested Terrain written by Keith Wilhite and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.

Wrong

Author : Diarmuid Hester
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386914
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Wrong written by Diarmuid Hester and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker—each successive incarnation more ingenious and surprising than the last. Cooper’s unflinching determination to probe the obscure, often violent recesses of the human psyche have seen him compared with literary outlaws like Rimbaud, Genet, and the Marquis de Sade. In this, the first book-length study of Cooper’s life and work, Diarmuid Hester shows that such comparisons hardly scratch the surface. A lively retrospective appraisal of Cooper’s fifty-year career, Wrong tracks the emergence of Cooper’s singular style alongside his participation in a number of American subcultural movements like New York School poetry, punk rock, and radical queercore music and zines. Using extensive archival research, close readings of texts, and new interviews with Cooper and his contemporaries, Hester weaves a complex and often thrilling biographical narrative that attests to Cooper’s status as a leading figure of the American post–War avant-garde.

James Joyce's Techno-poetics

Author : Donald F. Theall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802009685
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book James Joyce's Techno-poetics written by Donald F. Theall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theall explores the role of science, mathematics, and technology in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He argues that Joyce's paramodern poetic practice has important implications for a wide variety of subsequent cultural and theoretical movements.

Modernism's Metronome

Author : Ben Glaser
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439514
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Modernism's Metronome written by Ben Glaser and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breakingof meter and rise of free verse.

Techno Flower

Author : Ashley Fouts
Publisher : Page Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781628382839
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Techno Flower written by Ashley Fouts and published by Page Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techno Flower is a collection of poetry that is as vivid and as colorful as the title implies. From alcohol, to love, to the dangers of greed, Techno Flower covers all walks of life. Without holding any punches, Techno Flower is a collection of some of the most interesting poetry to come out this decade.