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− | Also conceptual poetry, literary appropriation, ready-made poetry, uncreative writing. | + | Also ''conceptualism, conceptual poetry, literary appropriation, ready-made poetry, uncreative writing''. |
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− | * '' | + | [[Image:Dworkin_Craig_Goldsmith_Kenneth_eds_Against_Expression_An_Anthology_of_Conceptual_Writing.jpg|thumb|200px|''Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing'', 2011, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6958 Log].]] |
+ | * [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/detail/69328 ''Poetry'': "Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo. An introduction to the 21st Century's most controversial poetry movements"], intro. & ed. Kenneth Goldsmith, Jul/Aug 2009. Special section of the magazine. | ||
− | + | * [http://www.drunkenboat.com/db10/06fic/ ''Drunken Boat'' 10: "Conceptual Fiction"], eds. & intro. Sina Queyras and Vanessa Place, Fall 2009. | |
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− | + | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6958 Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing]'', eds. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2011, 593 pp, [[Media:Dworkin_Craig_Goldsmith_Kenneth_eds_Against_Expression_An_Anthology_of_Conceptual_Writing.pdf|PDF]], [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=4446e2dd544df93b74732a377f580435-0 ARG]. Reviews: [http://muse.jhu.edu/article/447506 Reed] (Am Book Rev), [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n09/stephen-burt/must-poets-write Burt] (LRB), [http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1000 Grietzer] (LARB), [http://maydaymagazine.com/issue8reviewkostelanetz.php Kostelanetz] (Mayday), [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/eie.12014 McCallum] (English in Education), [http://www.dereactor.org/home/detail/een_enorme_expressieve_rijkdom/ Vriezen] (deReactor, NL). | |
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− | + | * ''I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women'', eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, intro. Laynie Browne and Caroline Bergvall, afterw. Vanessa Place, Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2012, 455 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56c514309ff37c06ad9e1ea2 ARG]. [http://lesfigues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IDMB_excerpt.pdf TOC & Introduction], [http://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/IDMB_foreword_intro.pdf Introduction], [http://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/IDMB_afterword.pdf Afterword]. [http://lesfigues.com/book/ill-drown-my-book/]. Reviews: [http://jacket2.org/reviews/drowning Corrigan] (Jacket2), [http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR37.6/lindsay_turner_conceptual_writing_women_poetry.php Turner] (Boston Rev), [http://htmlgiant.com/feature/ill-drown-my-book-part-1-the-ghosts-of-ill-drown-my-book/ Lee] (HTMLGiant), [http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/ill-drown-my-book-part-2/ Brodak] (HTMLGiant), [http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/ill-drown-my-book-part-3/ Grider] (HTMLGiant), [http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/ill-drown-my-book-part-4/ Smith] (HTMLGiant), [http://sinkreview.org/reviews/ill-drown-my-book.html Austin] (Sink), [http://thediagram.com/12_1/rev_illdrown.html Diagram], [https://www.newpages.com/item/3254-ill-drown-my-book Cramond] (NewPages), [http://web.archive.org/web/20140108023951/http://www.zolandpoetry.com/reviews/2013/v1/Drown-My-Book.html You] (Zoland Poetry), [http://robmclennan.blogspot.nl/2012/12/ill-drown-my-book-conceptual-writing-by.html McLennan], [http://www.drunkenboat.com/db17/ill-drown-my-book-conceptual-writing-women.html Magi] (Drunken Boat). | |
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− | + | ===Journals=== | |
− | + | * ''[http://cruxdesperationis.weebly.com/issues.html Crux Desperationis: International Journal of Conceptual Writing]'', ed. Riccardo Boglione, Montevideo, since 2011. | |
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− | + | ===Archives, Resources=== | |
− | + | * [http://ubuweb.com/ubu/unpub.html /ubu Editions: Publishing the Unpublishable], ed. Kenneth Goldsmith, since 2007 | |
− | + | * [http://eclipsearchive.org/ Eclipse Archive], ed. Craig Dworkin | |
− | + | * [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-conceptual-poetry A Brief Guide to Conceptual Poetry], Academy of American Poets, 2014. | |
− | + | * [http://workinprogressconpo.blogspot.com/ A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing] (in progress) | |
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− | + | ==Criticism, History, Theory== | |
− | * | + | ===Monographs, pamphlets, journal issues=== |
− | * | + | * Robert Fitterman, Vanessa Place, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12875 Notes on Conceptualisms]'', Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009, 78 pp. [http://ubu.com/film/fitterman_conceptualisms.html Film] by Coco, 2009. [http://vanessaplace.artcodeinc.com/pages/notes-on-conceptualisms/] |
− | * | + | ** ''Notater om Konceptualismer'', intro. Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkins, trans. Lene Asp and Henrik Majlund Toft, Aarhus: After Hand, 2012, 68 pp. [http://afterhand.blogspot.nl/2012/02/vanessa-place-robert-fitterman-notater.html] {{da}} |
− | * | + | ** [https://seminarioeuraca.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/notes_es.pdf "Notes on Conceptualisms. Selección de fragmentos"], trans. E. Maqueda, 2013. Trans. of excerpts. {{es}} |
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− | + | * Marjorie Perloff, ''Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century'', University of Chicago Press, 2010, ix+201 pp. [http://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/unoriginalgenius.pdf Excerpt]. [http://marjorieperloff.com/books/unoriginal-genius/]. Reviews: [http://muse.jhu.edu/article/447508 Di Leo] (Am Book Rev), [http://www.full-stop.net/2011/08/16/features/essays/sam/uncreative-writing-creative-reading/ Rowe] (Full Stop), [http://www.bookforum.com/review/7250 Scroggins] (Bookforum), [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/531154 Golding] (CompLit Studies), [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/eie.12014 McCallum] (English in Education), [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1215/0961754X-1305508 Mao] (Common Knowledge), [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1086/670317 Wilkinson] (Modern Philology), [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/books/attack/Paris_Vaclav_Perloff-Bernstein_JML_2012.pdf Paris] (J Modern Lit), [http://news.nationalpost.com/afterword/michael-lista-on-poetry-the-arriere-garde-is-just-as-vital-as-the-avant-garde Lista] (National Post), [http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=8547 Dow] (PN Rev), [http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/archives/perloffreview Lana Turner], [http://www.dereactor.org/home/detail/een_enorme_expressieve_rijkdom/ Vriezen] (deReactor, NL). [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/marjorie-perloffs-unoriginal-genius/] | |
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− | * | + | * Kenneth Goldsmith, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10009 Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age]'', New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 272 pp, [http://monoskop.org/media/text/goldsmith_2011_uncreative_writing/ HTML], [[Media:Goldsmith_Kenneth_Uncreative_Writing.epub|EPUB]]. Reviews: [http://muse.jhu.edu/article/447507 Quaid] (Am Book Rev), [http://www.full-stop.net/2011/08/16/features/essays/sam/uncreative-writing-creative-reading/ Rowe] (Full Stop), [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n09/stephen-burt/must-poets-write Burt] (LRB), [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0015.105?view=text;rgn=main Chesley] (JEP), [http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/25-points-uncreative-writing/ Jauchen] (HTMLGiant), [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535912 Jenkins] (James Joyce Quarterly), [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/eie.12014 McCallum] (English in Education). |
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− | + | * derek beaulieu, ''Seen of the Crime: Essays on Conceptual Writing'', /ubu Editions, 2012, 65 pp, [http://www.ubu.com/contemp/beaulieu/Beaulieu-Derek_Seen-of-the-Crime.pdf PDF]. | |
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− | + | * ''Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism'', ed. Triple Canopy, New York: Triple Canopy & MCA Denver, 2013, 268 pp. [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/corrected_slogans_reading_and_writing_conceptualism] | |
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− | + | * Felix Bernstein, ''Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry'', pref. Trisha Low, Los Angeles: Insert Blanc Press, 2015, 170 pp, [http://www.thevolta.org/ewc41-fbernstein-p1.html HTML]. Notes amalgamated for the ''Poetry Will Be Made By All'' event conceived by Kenneth Goldsmith and Hans-Ulrich Obrist in 2014. Reviews: [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/portrait-of-a-coterie Seltman] (LARB), [https://ejas.revues.org/11396 Daniele] (European J of Am Studies), [https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/felix-bernsteins-post-conceptual-integrity/ Lawrence] (Capilano Rev). [https://www.insertblancpress.net/products/notes-on-post-conceptual-poetry-by-felix-bernstein] [http://www.felixbernstein.com/notes-on-post-conceptual-poetry.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20150223085859/http://poetrywillbemadebyall.ch/book/] | |
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− | * | + | * Paul Stephens, ''The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing'', University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Review: [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1080/13534645.2016.1175072 Thurston] (Parallax), [http://leonardo.info/reviews/oct2015/stephens-baetens.php Baetens] (Leonardo), [https://www.aallnet.org/Blogs/spectrum-blog/58503.html Abbasi] (AALL). [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-poetics-of-information-overload] [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt16ptn0r] [https://www.guernicamag.com/stars-in-my-pocket-like-bits-of-data/] |
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− | + | * Mirjam Horn, ''Postmodern Plagiarisms: Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970-2010)'', de Gruyter Mouton, 2015, vii+286 pp. [https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783110379105/9783110379105-toc/9783110379105-toc.pdf TOC]. Based on 2012 PhD dissertation at Giessen U. [https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/433992] [https://books.google.com/books?id=up21CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover] | |
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− | + | * Gaëlle Théval, ''Poésies ready-made, XXe-XXIe siècles'', Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015, 288 pp. [https://poesieexp.hypotheses.org/196 TOC]. [http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=48235]. Based on [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961017/document 2011 PhD dissertation]. Reviews: [http://www.sitaudis.fr/Parutions/poesies-ready-made-xx-xxie-siecle-de-gaelle-theval.php Huglo] (Sitaudis), [http://cahiercritiquedepoesie.fr/ccp-32-1/gaelle-theval-poesies-ready-made Tardy] (Cahier Critique de Poésie). {{fr}} | |
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− | + | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=15697 Reconfiliating: Conversations with Conceptual-Affiliated Writers]'', ed. & intro. Caleb Beckwith, afterw. Joseph Mosconi, Essay Press, 2015, vi+72 pp. Interviews with J. Gordon Faylor, Danny Snelson, and Divya Victor. [http://www.essaypress.org/ep-41/] | |
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− | * | + | ===Journal issues and features=== |
− | + | * ''OEI'' 15-17: "Appropriering", Stockholm, 2003. [http://olllllll.se/arkoeiv/?p=289] {{sw}} | |
− | + | * [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_book_review/toc/abr.32.4.html ''American Book Review'' 32(4): "Uncreative Writing"]'', intro. Doug Nufer, May/Jun 2011. Special section of the journal. | |
− | + | * ''Ha!art'' 50: "Konceptualny", Cracow: Korporacja ha!art, 2015, 80 pp. [https://issuu.com/korporacja_haart/docs/ha_50_fragmenty excerpt] in ''AE'', 2011. [http://www.ha.art.pl/sklep/index.php?p507,ha-art-50-konceptualny] {{pl}} | |
− | + | * [https://jacket2.org/commentary/vanessa-place ''Jacket2'': "Global conceptualisms"], ed. Vanessa Place, Feb 2012-Apr 2013. Special section featuring 5 dialogues. | |
+ | * [http://www.thevolta.org/ewc-mainpage41.html ''Evening Will Come'' 41: "Conceptual Poetry Feature"], eds. Tom Trudgeon and Caleb Beckwith, May 2014. | ||
+ | * [http://jacket2.org/feature/conceptual-writing-plural-and-global-and-other-cultural-productions ''Jacket2'': "Conceptual writing (plural and global) and other cultural productions"], ed. & pref. Divya Victor, Feb 2016. With contributions from 35 practitioners and critics. | ||
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+ | ===Papers, articles, pamphlets, statements=== | ||
+ | * Marjorie Perloff, [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/after_langpo.html "After Language Poetry: Innovation and Its Theoretical Discontents"], ''Literaria Pragensia'' 11(22): "Contemporary Poetics", ed. Louis Armand, Prague, 2001, pp 15-35; repr. in Perloff, ''Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy'', University of Alabama Press, 2004, pp 155-174. [http://litteraria-pragensia.ff.cuni.cz/front.issue/detail/5]. First presented as a keynote at the conference ''Where Lyric Tradition Meets Language Poetry'', Barnard, Apr 1999. | ||
+ | * Marjorie Perloff, [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/Perloff_Digital-Poetics.pdf "Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text"], in ''New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories'', eds. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, MIT Press, 2006, pp 143-164. | ||
+ | * Kenneth Goldsmith, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080212015255/http://poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/journals/2007.01.22.html "Conceptual Poetics. Uncreative Writing. Information Management. Boredom. A Gallery of Conceptual Writing"], ''PoetryFoundation.org'', 22-26 Jan 2007. | ||
+ | * Marjorie Perloff, [http://marjorieperloff.com/essays/conceptualisms-old-and-new/ "Conceptualisms, Old and New"], ''Parkett'' 78, 2007. [http://www.parkettart.com/books/78-volume.html] | ||
+ | * Kenneth Goldsmith, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/conceptual-poetics-christian-bok/ "Conceptual Poetics: Christian Bök"], ''Harriet'', Jun 2008. Presented at the ''Conceptual Poetry and Its Others'' conference, University of Arizona, Tucson. | ||
+ | * Nicolas Tardy, ''Les ready-mades textuels'', Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design de Genève (HEAD), 2009, 70 pp. [https://www.hesge.ch/head/publication/les-ready-mades-textuels] {{fr}} | ||
+ | * Vanessa Place, ''[http://conceptualwriting101.blogspot.nl/2010/10/vanessa-place-notes-on-why.html Notes on Why Conceptualism is better than Flarf]'', Calgary: No Press, 2010. [https://derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com/no-press/] | ||
+ | * Vanessa Place, ''[http://lemonhound.com/2013/02/25/vanessa-place-the-allegory-and-the-archive/ Allegory of the Archive]'', Calgary: No Press, 2010. | ||
+ | * Marjorie Perloff, [http://jacket2.org/article/towards-conceptual-lyric "Towards a Conceptual Lyric: From Content to Context"], ''Jacket2'', 28 Jul 2011. An analysis of Kenneth Goldsmith’s 2011 performance at the White House. | ||
+ | * Judith Goldman, [http://www.pomoculture.org/2013/05/18/re-thinking-non-retinal-literature-citation-radical-mimesis-and-phenomenologies-of-reading-in-conceptual-writing-1/ "Re-thinking 'Non-retinal Literature': Citation, 'Radical Mimesis,' and Phenomenologies of Reading in Conceptual Writing"], ''Postmodern Culture'' 22:1, Sep 2011. | ||
+ | * Kenneth Goldsmith, et al., [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/conceptual-writing-a-worldview/ "Conceptual Writing: A Worldview"], ''Harriet'', 30 Apr 2012. A brief overview of the practice in the US, UK, Canada, South America and Scandinavia. | ||
+ | * Paul Stephens, [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/2/000124/000124.html "From the Personal to the Proprietary: Conceptual Writing's Critique of Metadata"], ''Digital Humanities Quarterly'' 6:2, 2012. | ||
+ | * Marjorie Perloff, [http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR37.3/marjorie_perloff_poetry_lyric_reinvention.php "Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric"], ''Boston Review'', May/Jun 2012. | ||
+ | ** Response: Matvei Yankelevich, [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gray-area-an-open-letter-to-marjorie-perloff/ "The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff"], ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', 13 Jul 2012. | ||
+ | ** Response: Jacob Edmond, [https://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/conceptual-writing-and-the-russians/ "Conceptual Writing and the Russians"], ''A Common Strangeness'', 16 Jul 2012. | ||
+ | * Johanna Drucker, [http://poetryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/PPNL-231-FINAL-FOR-PRINTING.pdf#page=6 "Beyond Conceptualisms: Poetics after Critique and the End of the Individual Voice"], ''The Poetry Project Newsletter'' 231, May/Jun 2012, pp 6-9. | ||
+ | * Peli Grietzer, [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-aesthetics-of-sufficiency-on-conceptual-writing/ "The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing"], ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', 12 Oct 2012. | ||
+ | * Darren Wershler, [http://www.alienated.net/academic-writing/conceptual-writing-fanfic/ "Conceptual Writing As Fanfic"], in ''Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World'', ed. Anne Jamison, Dallas: Smart Pop, 2013. | ||
+ | * Brian Kim Stefans, ''[[Media:Stefans_Brian_Kim_Conceptual_Writing_The_LA_Brand_2013.pdf|Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand]]'', Los Angeles: Area Sneaks, 2013, 13 pp. [http://www.arras.net/?page_id=1051] | ||
+ | * Amy King, [http://therumpus.net/author/amy-king/ "Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz"], ''The Rumpus'', 15-16 Jul 2013. | ||
+ | * Calvin Bedient, [http://bostonreview.net/poetry/against-conceptualism "Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect"], ''Boston Review'', 24 Jul 2013. | ||
+ | * Robert Archambeau, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/08/charming-and-interesting-what-conceptual-poetry-lacks-and-what-its-got/ "Charmless and Interesting: What Conceptual Poetry Lacks and What It’s Got"], ''Harriet'', 2 Aug 2013. | ||
+ | * Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-writer-as-meme-machine "The Writer as Meme Machine"], ''The New Yorker'', 22 Oct 2013. | ||
+ | * Nicholas D. Nace, [http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/Bibliomania!/UnprintedMatterConceptualWritingandTristramShandysChasmofTenPages.pdf "Unprinted Matter: Conceptual Writing and Tristram Shandy's 'chasm of ten pages'"], ''The Shandean'' 24, Laurence Sterne Trust, Nov 2013, 31-58. | ||
+ | * derek beaulieu, ''[https://derekbeaulieu.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/text-without-text-beaulieu-thesis-final.pdf Text Without Text: Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Writing]'', University of Roehampton, 2014, 173 pp. PhD dissertation. | ||
+ | * Hannes Bajohr, [http://hannesbajohr.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Schreibenlassen.-MERKUR-7-2014.pdf "Schreibenlassen. Gegenwartsliteratur und die Furcht vorm Digitalen"], ''Merkur'' 68:7, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, Jul 2014, pp 651-658. {{de}} | ||
+ | ** [http://0x0a.li/en/schreibenlassen-gegenwartsliteratur-und-die-furcht-vorm-digitalen/ "Let It Write: Contemporary Literature and the Fear of the Digital"], ''0x0a'', Nov 2014. | ||
+ | * Karel Piorecký, [https://academia.edu/9028203 "Opatrná vitalita. Nové tendence v současné české poezii"], in ''displej.eu'', eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Peter Dietze, Berlin & Prague, 2014, pp 100-112. {{cz}} | ||
+ | ** [https://academia.edu/9028203 "Vorsichtige Vitalität. Neue Entwicklungen in der gegenwärtigen tschechischen Poesie"], trans. Lena Dorn, in ''displej.eu'', eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Peter Dietze, Berlin & Prague, 2014, pp 101-113, [http://www.babelsprech.org/babelsprech-international-tschechische-poesie/ HTML]. | ||
+ | ** [http://www.full-stop.net/2015/07/23/blog/karel-piorecky/cautious-vitality-new-developments-in-contemporary-czech-poetry/ "Cautious Vitality: New Developments in Contemporary Czech Poetry"], ''Full Stop'', 23 Jul 2015. [http://www.babelsprech.org/cautious-vitality-new-developments-in-contemporary-czech-poetry/] | ||
+ | * Katie L. Price, [https://jacket2.org/commentary/what-relationship-between-conceptual-art-and-conceptual-writing "What is the relationship between Conceptual art and conceptual writing?"], ''Jacket2'', 19 Jan 2015. Survey with responses from Jacquelyn Ardam, derek beaulieu, Mashinka Firunts, Michelle Taransky, Andrea Quaid, and Christine Wertheim. | ||
+ | * Jorge Carrión, [http://lab.cccb.org/es/escrituras-conceptuales-un-panorama/ "Escrituras conceptuales: un panorama"], ''CCCB Lab'', 6 May 2015. An overview of conceptual literature in Latin America. {{es}} | ||
+ | ** [http://lab.cccb.org/en/conceptual-writings-an-overview/ "Conceptual Writings: An Overview"], ''CCCB Lab'', 6 May 2015. {{en}} | ||
+ | ** [http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_escriptures-conceptuals-un-panorama/ "Escriptures conceptuals: un panorama"], ''CCCB Lab'', 6 May 2015. {{ca}} | ||
+ | * Mettyu Uitli (Мэттью Уитли), "'Eti lyudi zhivut zdes': kontseptualizm i novaya dokumentalnaya poetika" [«Эти люди живут здесь»: Концептуализм и Новая Документальная Поэтика], ''Translit'' 17, St Petersburg, 2015. [http://www.trans-lit.info/vypuski/17-translit] {{ru}} | ||
+ | ** Matthew Whitley, [http://arcade.stanford.edu/content/these-people-live-here-conceptualism-and-new-documentary-poetics These People Live Here: Conceptualism and the New Documentary Poetics], ''Arcade'', 11 Jul 2016. | ||
+ | * Luke Skrebowski, [http://amodern.net/article/approaching-the-contemporary/ "Approaching the Contemporary: On (Post-)Conceptual Writing"], ''Amodern'' 6, Summer 2016. | ||
+ | * Daniel Penny, [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-irrelevant-and-the-contemporary/ "The Irrelevant and the Contemporary"], ''The New Inquiry'', 2 Aug 2016. | ||
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+ | ===Bibliographies=== | ||
* yigru zeltil, ''[[Media:zeltil_yigru_A_Bibliography_of_Conceptual_Writing.pdf|A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing]]'', khora impex, 2017, 174 pp. | * yigru zeltil, ''[[Media:zeltil_yigru_A_Bibliography_of_Conceptual_Writing.pdf|A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing]]'', khora impex, 2017, 174 pp. | ||
− | == | + | ==Primary references== |
− | * http://www.ubu.com/concept/ | + | * ''[http://www.ubu.com/concept/ The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing]'', intro. & ed. Craig Dworkin, ''UbuWeb'', since 2003. A gallery of on-line works bringing together texts from the traditions of [[conceptual art]], the Oulipo, and avant-garde poetry. |
− | + | * ''[http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/LANGUAGE/ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E]'' | |
− | * http://eclipsearchive.org/ | + | * Oulipo |
− | + | * [[Concrete poetry]] | |
− | * [ | + | * [[Conceptual art]] |
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Revision as of 12:47, 15 April 2017
Also conceptualism, conceptual poetry, literary appropriation, ready-made poetry, uncreative writing.
Contents
Pages
Works
Anthologies
- Poetry: "Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo. An introduction to the 21st Century's most controversial poetry movements", intro. & ed. Kenneth Goldsmith, Jul/Aug 2009. Special section of the magazine.
- Drunken Boat 10: "Conceptual Fiction", eds. & intro. Sina Queyras and Vanessa Place, Fall 2009.
- Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, eds. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2011, 593 pp, PDF, ARG. Reviews: Reed (Am Book Rev), Burt (LRB), Grietzer (LARB), Kostelanetz (Mayday), McCallum (English in Education), Vriezen (deReactor, NL).
- I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, intro. Laynie Browne and Caroline Bergvall, afterw. Vanessa Place, Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2012, 455 pp, ARG. TOC & Introduction, Introduction, Afterword. [1]. Reviews: Corrigan (Jacket2), Turner (Boston Rev), Lee (HTMLGiant), Brodak (HTMLGiant), Grider (HTMLGiant), Smith (HTMLGiant), Austin (Sink), Diagram, Cramond (NewPages), You (Zoland Poetry), McLennan, Magi (Drunken Boat).
Journals
- Crux Desperationis: International Journal of Conceptual Writing, ed. Riccardo Boglione, Montevideo, since 2011.
Archives, Resources
- /ubu Editions: Publishing the Unpublishable, ed. Kenneth Goldsmith, since 2007
- Eclipse Archive, ed. Craig Dworkin
- A Brief Guide to Conceptual Poetry, Academy of American Poets, 2014.
- A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing (in progress)
Criticism, History, Theory
Monographs, pamphlets, journal issues
- Robert Fitterman, Vanessa Place, Notes on Conceptualisms, Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009, 78 pp. Film by Coco, 2009. [2]
- Notater om Konceptualismer, intro. Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkins, trans. Lene Asp and Henrik Majlund Toft, Aarhus: After Hand, 2012, 68 pp. [3] (Danish)
- "Notes on Conceptualisms. Selección de fragmentos", trans. E. Maqueda, 2013. Trans. of excerpts. (Spanish)
- Marjorie Perloff, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, University of Chicago Press, 2010, ix+201 pp. Excerpt. [4]. Reviews: Di Leo (Am Book Rev), Rowe (Full Stop), Scroggins (Bookforum), Golding (CompLit Studies), McCallum (English in Education), Mao (Common Knowledge), Wilkinson (Modern Philology), Paris (J Modern Lit), Lista (National Post), Dow (PN Rev), Lana Turner, Vriezen (deReactor, NL). [5]
- Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 272 pp, HTML, EPUB. Reviews: Quaid (Am Book Rev), Rowe (Full Stop), Burt (LRB), Chesley (JEP), Jauchen (HTMLGiant), Jenkins (James Joyce Quarterly), McCallum (English in Education).
- derek beaulieu, Seen of the Crime: Essays on Conceptual Writing, /ubu Editions, 2012, 65 pp, PDF.
- Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism, ed. Triple Canopy, New York: Triple Canopy & MCA Denver, 2013, 268 pp. [6]
- Felix Bernstein, Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry, pref. Trisha Low, Los Angeles: Insert Blanc Press, 2015, 170 pp, HTML. Notes amalgamated for the Poetry Will Be Made By All event conceived by Kenneth Goldsmith and Hans-Ulrich Obrist in 2014. Reviews: Seltman (LARB), Daniele (European J of Am Studies), Lawrence (Capilano Rev). [7] [8] [9]
- Paul Stephens, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing, University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Review: Thurston (Parallax), Baetens (Leonardo), Abbasi (AALL). [10] [11] [12]
- Mirjam Horn, Postmodern Plagiarisms: Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970-2010), de Gruyter Mouton, 2015, vii+286 pp. TOC. Based on 2012 PhD dissertation at Giessen U. [13] [14]
- Gaëlle Théval, Poésies ready-made, XXe-XXIe siècles, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015, 288 pp. TOC. [15]. Based on 2011 PhD dissertation. Reviews: Huglo (Sitaudis), Tardy (Cahier Critique de Poésie). (French)
- Reconfiliating: Conversations with Conceptual-Affiliated Writers, ed. & intro. Caleb Beckwith, afterw. Joseph Mosconi, Essay Press, 2015, vi+72 pp. Interviews with J. Gordon Faylor, Danny Snelson, and Divya Victor. [16]
Journal issues and features
- OEI 15-17: "Appropriering", Stockholm, 2003. [17] (Swedish)
- American Book Review 32(4): "Uncreative Writing", intro. Doug Nufer, May/Jun 2011. Special section of the journal.
- Ha!art 50: "Konceptualny", Cracow: Korporacja ha!art, 2015, 80 pp. excerpt in AE, 2011. [18] (Polish)
- Jacket2: "Global conceptualisms", ed. Vanessa Place, Feb 2012-Apr 2013. Special section featuring 5 dialogues.
- Evening Will Come 41: "Conceptual Poetry Feature", eds. Tom Trudgeon and Caleb Beckwith, May 2014.
- Jacket2: "Conceptual writing (plural and global) and other cultural productions", ed. & pref. Divya Victor, Feb 2016. With contributions from 35 practitioners and critics.
Papers, articles, pamphlets, statements
- Marjorie Perloff, "After Language Poetry: Innovation and Its Theoretical Discontents", Literaria Pragensia 11(22): "Contemporary Poetics", ed. Louis Armand, Prague, 2001, pp 15-35; repr. in Perloff, Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, University of Alabama Press, 2004, pp 155-174. [19]. First presented as a keynote at the conference Where Lyric Tradition Meets Language Poetry, Barnard, Apr 1999.
- Marjorie Perloff, "Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text", in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, eds. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, MIT Press, 2006, pp 143-164.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Conceptual Poetics. Uncreative Writing. Information Management. Boredom. A Gallery of Conceptual Writing", PoetryFoundation.org, 22-26 Jan 2007.
- Marjorie Perloff, "Conceptualisms, Old and New", Parkett 78, 2007. [20]
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Conceptual Poetics: Christian Bök", Harriet, Jun 2008. Presented at the Conceptual Poetry and Its Others conference, University of Arizona, Tucson.
- Nicolas Tardy, Les ready-mades textuels, Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design de Genève (HEAD), 2009, 70 pp. [21] (French)
- Vanessa Place, Notes on Why Conceptualism is better than Flarf, Calgary: No Press, 2010. [22]
- Vanessa Place, Allegory of the Archive, Calgary: No Press, 2010.
- Marjorie Perloff, "Towards a Conceptual Lyric: From Content to Context", Jacket2, 28 Jul 2011. An analysis of Kenneth Goldsmith’s 2011 performance at the White House.
- Judith Goldman, "Re-thinking 'Non-retinal Literature': Citation, 'Radical Mimesis,' and Phenomenologies of Reading in Conceptual Writing", Postmodern Culture 22:1, Sep 2011.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, et al., "Conceptual Writing: A Worldview", Harriet, 30 Apr 2012. A brief overview of the practice in the US, UK, Canada, South America and Scandinavia.
- Paul Stephens, "From the Personal to the Proprietary: Conceptual Writing's Critique of Metadata", Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:2, 2012.
- Marjorie Perloff, "Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric", Boston Review, May/Jun 2012.
- Response: Matvei Yankelevich, "The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff", Los Angeles Review of Books, 13 Jul 2012.
- Response: Jacob Edmond, "Conceptual Writing and the Russians", A Common Strangeness, 16 Jul 2012.
- Johanna Drucker, "Beyond Conceptualisms: Poetics after Critique and the End of the Individual Voice", The Poetry Project Newsletter 231, May/Jun 2012, pp 6-9.
- Peli Grietzer, "The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing", Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 Oct 2012.
- Darren Wershler, "Conceptual Writing As Fanfic", in Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World, ed. Anne Jamison, Dallas: Smart Pop, 2013.
- Brian Kim Stefans, Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand, Los Angeles: Area Sneaks, 2013, 13 pp. [23]
- Amy King, "Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz", The Rumpus, 15-16 Jul 2013.
- Calvin Bedient, "Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect", Boston Review, 24 Jul 2013.
- Robert Archambeau, "Charmless and Interesting: What Conceptual Poetry Lacks and What It’s Got", Harriet, 2 Aug 2013.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "The Writer as Meme Machine", The New Yorker, 22 Oct 2013.
- Nicholas D. Nace, "Unprinted Matter: Conceptual Writing and Tristram Shandy's 'chasm of ten pages'", The Shandean 24, Laurence Sterne Trust, Nov 2013, 31-58.
- derek beaulieu, Text Without Text: Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Writing, University of Roehampton, 2014, 173 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Hannes Bajohr, "Schreibenlassen. Gegenwartsliteratur und die Furcht vorm Digitalen", Merkur 68:7, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, Jul 2014, pp 651-658. (German)
- "Let It Write: Contemporary Literature and the Fear of the Digital", 0x0a, Nov 2014.
- Karel Piorecký, "Opatrná vitalita. Nové tendence v současné české poezii", in displej.eu, eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Peter Dietze, Berlin & Prague, 2014, pp 100-112. (Czech)
- "Vorsichtige Vitalität. Neue Entwicklungen in der gegenwärtigen tschechischen Poesie", trans. Lena Dorn, in displej.eu, eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Peter Dietze, Berlin & Prague, 2014, pp 101-113, HTML.
- "Cautious Vitality: New Developments in Contemporary Czech Poetry", Full Stop, 23 Jul 2015. [24]
- Katie L. Price, "What is the relationship between Conceptual art and conceptual writing?", Jacket2, 19 Jan 2015. Survey with responses from Jacquelyn Ardam, derek beaulieu, Mashinka Firunts, Michelle Taransky, Andrea Quaid, and Christine Wertheim.
- Jorge Carrión, "Escrituras conceptuales: un panorama", CCCB Lab, 6 May 2015. An overview of conceptual literature in Latin America. (Spanish)
- "Conceptual Writings: An Overview", CCCB Lab, 6 May 2015. (English)
- "Escriptures conceptuals: un panorama", CCCB Lab, 6 May 2015. (Catalan)
- Mettyu Uitli (Мэттью Уитли), "'Eti lyudi zhivut zdes': kontseptualizm i novaya dokumentalnaya poetika" [«Эти люди живут здесь»: Концептуализм и Новая Документальная Поэтика], Translit 17, St Petersburg, 2015. [25] (Russian)
- Matthew Whitley, These People Live Here: Conceptualism and the New Documentary Poetics, Arcade, 11 Jul 2016.
- Luke Skrebowski, "Approaching the Contemporary: On (Post-)Conceptual Writing", Amodern 6, Summer 2016.
- Daniel Penny, "The Irrelevant and the Contemporary", The New Inquiry, 2 Aug 2016.
Bibliographies
- yigru zeltil, A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing, khora impex, 2017, 174 pp.
Primary references
- The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing, intro. & ed. Craig Dworkin, UbuWeb, since 2003. A gallery of on-line works bringing together texts from the traditions of conceptual art, the Oulipo, and avant-garde poetry.
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- Concrete poetry
- Conceptual art
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