Word Toys: Poetry and Technics

With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.

About the author

Brian Kim Stefans is the author of several books of poetry, including Viva Miscegenation and What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers, and the creator of digital text works that include "The Dreamlife of Letters" and "Kluge: A Meditation." He is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Kim Stefans
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780817358952
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5895-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies