Paul Stephens

Minimal Writing As Art and Literature

Absence of Clutter

Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control. Beginning with Gertrude Stein and Bob Brown, Stephens explores how writers have been preoccupied with the effects of new media since the advent of modernism. He continues with the postwar writing of Charles Olson, John Cage, Bern Porter, Hannah Weiner, Bernadette Mayer, Lyn Hejinian, and Bruce Andrews, and concludes with a discussion of conceptual writing produced in the past decade. By reading these works in the context of information systems, Stephens shows how the poetry of the past century has had, as a primary focus, the role of data in human life.

From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing

The Poetics of Information Overload

Stephen Moore

Mark Walsh

Social Policy and Welfare is an introductory textbook to the key concepts, issues and historical developments that underpin British social policy. The book includes coverage of both classic themes and debates and the latest New Labour approach to social policy and social welfare provision. Written with the Edexcel Social policy AS/A level specifications in mind, it should be of specific interest to undergraduates studying social policy, sociology, and to health and social care students.

Social Policy & Welfare

Faced with an unsolved murder and no clues, Detective Sergeant Mary Miller risks her career by trusting Michael Slade, the eccentric shop worker who seems to know more than he should about the case. There's more to Michael than meets the eye - but does that include being a killer who gets his kicks by playing games with the police? "A rattling good read.""...every time I thought I knew where it was heading, something else would appear to make me think again."- Amazon customer reviews The Bodies in the Beach contains some strong language, and one scene where a character uses sexually disparaging comments as provocation. There are no descriptions of violence or sexual acts.

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