Intuitions In Literature Technology And Politics

Writing itself, as a technology, has undergone a sea change in which writers consider their relationship to objects as never before.Here, Clinton explores the way in which writing registers the changing status of the object-as commodity, as psychoanalytic concept, as spatial and philosophical idea-from WWII to the present.

Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Thomas Pynchon, Umberto Eco, Carolyn Forche, James Merrill, Hannah Weiner, Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, and Larry Eigner.