Distant Reading - Performance, Readership, And Consumption In Contemporary Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Peter Middleton is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, and author of Literatures of Memory: History, Time, and Space in Postwar Writing (coauthored with Tim Woods), The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture and Aftermath (poems). Klappentext Ultimately, "Distant Reading" treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance--recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen--rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words. Zusammenfassung Distant Reading considers poetry as performance! offers new insights into its popularity! and proposes a new history of its origins. Its themes are connected by a historically contextualized and theoretically sophisticated discussion of contemporary American and British poets continuing to work in the modernist tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Middleton
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2005
• EAN: 9780817314422
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1442-2
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies