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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.
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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
A propos de l'auteur
Jacob Edmond is professor in English at the University of Otago. He is the author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (2012).
Résumé
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.
Texte suppl.
Edmond makes a compelling case for the contemporary avant-garde as a counterweight to more mainstream codex-based poetics that often privilege notions of original authorship.
