Distant Reading Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry |
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| Author:
| Middleton, Peter |
| Series title: | Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1442-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2005 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.