Poetry in the Digital Age : An Interdisciplinary Handbook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benthien, Claudia.

Series:

Poetry in the Digital Age Series

Poetry in the Digital Age Series ; v.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (648 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Poetry between different media and artistic genres

The ERC research project Poetry in the Digital Age

Overarching new perspectives, challenges, and research areas

References

Part I: Adapting the Concepts and Parameters of Poetry Research

I.1 Lyric Genre Theory

The lyric genre in poetry research

Adaptation and transformation of the lyric genre in the digital age

Case study: Poetry as a new kind of medicine

I.2 Poetic Function

Poetic function, poeticity, and the palpability of signs

Examples in contemporary poetry: Yoko Tawada and Ana María Uribe

Summary

I.3 Poetic Language

Poeticity, quality of difference, and perception

Excess structuring and poetic thickness

Ambiguity and polysemy

I.4 Poetological Poetry

Topics and dimensions of poetological poetry

Mediality and materiality of poetological poetry

Poetological symbolism in the digital age

Poetological erasure poems on X/Twitter

I.5 Lyric Subjectivity

Theory of lyric subjectivity

Lyric subjectivity under the conditions of advanced technology

Lyric subjectivity and poetry performance

Interspecies lyric: a tree as poet

I.6 Mood (Stimmung) in Poetry

Stimmung: A philosophical history

Mood as embodied cognition

Lyric mood in the digital age

I.7 Cycles and Sequential Structures

Introduction and historical background

Challenges in the (early) digital age

Exemplary cycles in contemporary poetry

I.8 Verse, Stanza, and Versification

General definitions

Elements of coherence: The example of the sonnet

Contemporary perspectives

I.9 Rhyme, Meter, and Rhythm

Defining rhythm

Rhythm, rhyme, and meter in the digital age.

From rhythm to Prägnanz

I.10 Musicality and Sangbarkeit

Poetry and music: Preliminaries

The problem of singability

Musicality and singability: Recent transformations

Musicality and Singability in the digital age: Two case studies

I.11 Voice and Orality

Oral literature and voice in poetry research

The materiality of voice and language

Performativity and vocal identity

Case studies

I.12 Layout and Typography

Transformations in the digital age

The (digital) typography of code poetry

Part II: Between Established Genres and Emerging Formats

II.1 Printed Poetry

Media ecologies, postdigital publishing, and the rise of bookishness

From lyric subjectivity to representational politics

The printed codex and the shape of poetry

Artist's books, calligraphy, and alternative alphabets

Postdigital small press publishing

II.2 Live Oral Poetry

Oral poetry, performance, and liveness

Subgenres of live oral poetry

Conclusion

II.3 Musicalized Poetry

Poetry, music, and multimedia

The musical terminology of lyric poetry in the digital age

Common aesthetic orientations beyond genres

Digital heritage for poetry and music

II.4 Recorded and Audioliterary Poetry

Recording for documentation and preservation

Audioliterary writing and recording's productive potential

Prospect

II.5 Audiovisual Poetry

Genres, types, and formats of audiovisual poetry

II.6 Digital Poetry

Subgenres of digital poetry

II.7 Social Media Poetry

Platformized socially engaged poetry

What defines social media poems?

Affordances and social media poetry.

References

II.8 Political and Activist Poetry

Defining political and activist poetry

Themes and strategies of activist poetry

Poetry and (trans-)national struggles

Political poetry in Belarus and Ukraine

II.9 Poetry as Public Art

Poetry in public spaces: Theoretical background

The aesthetics of poetry installations

The aesthetics of performative poetry formats

Closing remarks

Part III: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Research Fields

III.1 Lyricology

Fictionality and non-fictionality

Lyric enunciation and address

Lyric text worlds

Form and lyric

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III.2 Cultural Studies and Literary Sociology

The predicament: Poetry studies and the challenge of mass culture

The unfulfilled promise of early cultural studies and literary sociology

Exceptions and ways forward: Cultural studies approaches to mass-produced, -circulated, and -consumed poetries

III.3 Gender and Queer Studies

Field and key terms

Preliminary notes on queer poetry

Queer poetry in the digital age

III.4 Cultural Memory Studies

A brief overview of cultural memory studies

Analyzing memory in (print) poetry

Memory poetry in digital media

III.5 Postcolonial Studies

Concepts, key terms, trends

Poetry and the postcolonial

Postcolonial poetry in digital forms

III.6 Multilingualism Research

The concept of multilingualism

Multilingual poetry

Yoko Tawada's multilingual poetry

III.7 Sound Studies and Musicology

Melopoetics and poetophony

Sound in poetry

Sound of poetry

Sound and poetry

III.8 Speech Communication Studies

Transdisciplinary perspective

Oral interpretation.

Speech expression

Methodology, research, and fields of practice

III.9 Audio Media Research

Introduction: "cutting through" and "going along"

Listening to voices in digital audiobooks

Listening and voice in radio montages and podcasts

The performing voice - orality and vocality

Listening modes across oral formats

Recapitulation

III.10 Performance and Theater Studies

Enactment, embodiment and presence

Mise-en-scène

Intermediality and transmediality

III.11 Film Studies

Film adapting poetry

Concepts of film theory

Neoformalism and poetry

Film phenomenology and poetry

Outlook: Digital post-cinema

III.12 Visual Culture Studies

From art history to visual culture studies

Concepts of the image

Methodological approaches derived from literary studies and linguistics

Intermediality, multimodal studies, and material culture studies

Concluding remarks

III.13 Media Art Research

Notions, subgenres, and state of the art

Entanglements between poetry and media art

Theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives

III.14 Media Linguistics and Multimodal Studies

Approaching the media linguistics and multimodal studies nexus

Media linguistic analysis of contemporary poetry

Multimodal analysis of poetic discourse

III.15 Media Ecology and Media Archaeology

Poetry and/as media theory

Media ecological perspectives on/in poetry

Media archaeologies of/by poetry

III.16 Digital Humanities

Defining digital humanities

Infrastructural imaginaries

Electronic literature as DH

Critical code studies and cultural analytics

Part IV: Current Debates.

IV.1 Poetry Performance between Liveness and Mediatization

Performing liveness

Debates about liveness vs. mediatization

Levels of liveness

IV.2 Staging the Self in Spoken-Word Poetry

Authenticity, autobiography, activism

Authenticity, personal experience, and the body in spoken-word

Autobiographical spoken-word poetry as feminist counter-discourse

The problem with authenticity - and alternative modes

IV.3 Performative Epitexts in Poetry Readings

Poem presentation and performative epitexts in poetry reading

The notion of paratext and performative practices

The poet as sovereign juggling between "high" and "low" culture

Iterability and routine of repetitive readings

Poem performance as epitext?

IV.4 Aesthetics of Access in Contemporary Poetry

Accessibility tools: The technical level

Accessibility of digital materials: Alt text

Translated written page poetry: Braille

Accessible future?

IV.5 Entanglements of Pop Lyrics and Poetry

"Lyrics are not poetry" - differences between lyrics and poetry

Lyrics as literature? Current debates in literary studies

The Poetry of rap: words, sounds, and more

Widening the scope: Beyond poetics, aesthetics, and cultural studies

IV.6 Contemporary Poetry as Commodity

Commodified lyrical speech and literariness

Instapoetry as an alternative form concept?

Selling poetry as fine art

Lyrical consumer aesthetics

IV.7 Digital Publishing of Poetry and its Detractors

What is the digital publishing of poetry?

Print vs. digital

Trade-published vs. self-published

Elite vs. amateur

Final thoughts

IV.8 Representational Politics and Poetry

Poetry as a representational battlefield.

Race, conceptual poetry, and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo.

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ISBN:

3-11-170454-8

9783111704548

OCLC:

1517841201