Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 634 g
Reihe: Literature Now
Poetry in the Age of Global Media
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 634 g
Reihe: Literature Now
ISBN: 978-0-231-19002-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Make It the Same explores how poetry—an art form associated with the singular, inimitable utterance—is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, translation, remediation, performance, and other forms of repetition, as opposed to privileging “innovative” or “original” works. Edmond tracks the rise of copy poetry across media from the tape recorder to the computer and through various cultures, languages, and places, reading across aesthetic, linguistic, geopolitical, and media divides. He illuminates the common form that unites a diverse range of writers from dub poets to conceptualists, samizdat wordsmiths to Twitter-trolling provocateurs, analyzing the works of such writers as Kamau Braithwaite, Dmitri Prigov, Caroline Bergvall, Vanessa Place, Christian Bök, Hsia Yü, and Tan Lin. Edmond develops an alternative account of modernist and contemporary literature as defined not by innovation—as in Ezra Pound’s slogan “make it new”—but by a system of continuous copying. Make It the Same transforms global literary history, showing how the old hierarchies of original and derivative, center and periphery are overturned when we recognize copying as the engine of literary change.