Contemporary Visual Poetry

Women Writing the Posthuman
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-23163-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding which is “situated”. First, the eye is theorised with respect to ethical understanding. When visual poets reclaim vision, visual poetics becomes feminist praxis. In Paula Claire and Maggie O’Sullivan “vispo” becomes an ecological practice concerned with connectivity in the entanglements of natureculture. In O’Sullivan, Campanello, Bergvall, and Philip spatial and temporal sense (de)formation sustains radical forms of voicing and eyewitness. Finally, works by Mez Breeze and Stephanie Strickland expand our understanding of visual poetry in digital (electronic, VR and AI) contexts in which technology and affect are intimately connected. These visual texts open up Braidotti’s question with respect to how we are to “visualize the subject as a transversal entity encompassing the human, our genetic neighbours the animals and the earth as a whole, and to do so within an understandable language”.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becket, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Chapter 1 Introduction Reclaiming Vision

Chapter 2 Textual Bodies: Visual Poetry as Feminist Praxis

Chapter 3 The “Multiple Body”: Visual Poetry’s Natural Histories

Chapter 4 Eye Witness and the Curated Language of Others

Chapter 5 Computational Environments and the Extended Poet

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Becket is Professor of Contemporary Poetics in the School of English, University of Leeds. She has written books and articles on aspects of modernist literature, visual poetry and poetics.