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TH E PO ET IC S O F
I NFO RMAT IO N OV E R LOAD
Gertrude Stein at the Teletype. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers,
YCAL MSS 76, Box 149, Folder 3528, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University.
THE P OE TI CS OF
INFORM ATI ON OV ER LOAD
F R O M GERT RU D E STEI N
TO CON CEP T UAL WRI TI NG
Paul Stephens
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis • London
An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as “‘Reading at It’: Gertrude Stein,
Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis,”
Twentieth-Century
Literature
59, no. 1 (2013): 126–56. An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as “Bob
Brown, ‘Inforg’: The ‘Readies’ at the Limits of Modernist Cosmopolitanism,”
Journal
of Modern Literature
35, no. 1 (2011): 143–64; copyright Indiana University Press. An
earlier version of chapter 3 appeared as “Human University: Charles Olson and the
Embodiment of Information,”
Paideuma
39 (August 2012): 181–208; reprinted with
permission from the National Poetry Foundation. An earlier version of chapter 6
appeared as “Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information Asymmetry,
and the Risk Society,”
Contemporary Literature
54, no. 4 (2013): 752–84; copyright
2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; reproduced
courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press.
The poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” by William Carlos Williams, is from
The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962,
ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher
MacGowan (New York: New Directions, 1986); copyright 1944 by William Carlos
Williams; reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stephens, Paul.
The poetics of information overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing /
Paul Stephens.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8166-9439-6 (hc : acid-free paper)—ISBN 978-0-8166-9441-9
(pb : acid-free paper)
1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. American
poetry—21st century—History and criticism. 3. Poetry, Modern—History and
criticism. 4. Literature and technology. 5. Poetics. 6. Modernism (Literature)—
United States. 7. Information technology in literature. I. Title.
PS310.M57S74 2015
811´509112—dc23
2014019916
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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