Uncreative Writing
Author | : Kenneth Goldsmith |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780231149914 |
ISBN-13 | : 0231149913 |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have engaged in 'uncreative writing'. Examining a wide rage of texts and techniques, including the use of Internet searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices adopted by writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol. Yet, more than just a reconfiguration of texts, uncreative writing can also be suffused with emotion and offer new ways of thinking about identity, tha making of meaning, and the ethos of our time."--Publisher.