{"product_id":"against-expression-an-anthology-of-conceptual-writing-agm-collection-9780810127111","title":"Against Expression An Anthology of Conceptual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments.   Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as poetry pregnant with thought. Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today's writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled by star practitioner Kenneth Goldsmith and lead academic liaison Craig Dworkin to be not so much a treasury of verse as an argument-by-demonstration, this anthology will excite the reader who wants more than normal literature gives her, as well as annoy—and, perhaps, haunt—the one who values her belief that normal literature gives her everything already.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec\"One rarely likes to be told how to read, where to position a text in the context of its literary theory and formal practices, or who the writing owes its legacy to. However, one of the greatest strengths of Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith's \u003ci\u003eAgainst Expression\u003c\/i\u003e is that it does precisely that.\" —\u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038257840471,"sku":"9780810127111","price":40.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810127111.jpg?v=1750939680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/against-expression-an-anthology-of-conceptual-writing-agm-collection-9780810127111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}