Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

Columbia University Press

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E-ISBN 978-0-231-50454-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goldsmith, Kenneth.

Uncreative writing: managing language in the digital age / Kenneth Goldsmith.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-14990-7 (cloth: acid-free paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-14991-4 (pbk.: acid-free paper)

1. Literature and technology. 2. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 3. Creative writing—Data processing. 4. Creative writing—Study and teaching. 5. Authors—Effect of technological innovations on. 6. Literature and the Internet. 7. Modernism (Literature)—History and criticism. 8. Poetics. I. Title.

PN1031.G638 2011

808.00285’4678—dc23

2011003302

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