Description
Book SynopsisWith 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.
Trade ReviewWord Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers."" - Charles Bernstein, author of
Recalculating and
Pitch of Poetry""Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-the-mill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit."" - Jennifer Scappettone, author of
Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
