Edmond Make It the Same

Poetry in the Age of Global Media
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54867-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same explores how poetry is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, and other forms of repetition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmond, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Copy as Global Master Trope
1. Postcolonial Media: Kamau Brathwaite’s Reel Revolution
2. The Art of Samizdat: Dmitri Prigov, Moscow Conceptualism, and the Carbon-Copy Origins of New Media Poetics
3. Making Waves in World Literature: Yang Lian and John Cayley’s Networked Collaboration
4. Shibboleth: The Border Crossings of Caroline Bergvall, Performance Writing, and Iterative Poetics
5. Copy Rights: Conceptual Writing, the Mongrel Coalition, and the Racial Politics of Digital Media
6. Chinese Rooms: The Work of Poetry in an Age of Global Languages, Machine Translation, and Automatic Estrangement
Recapitulations: Repetition and Revolution in World Poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Edmond is associate professor in English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (2012).