8 Result(s)
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Introduction
This book explores the impact of ideas of space and spatialization on recent and contemporary poetry and demonstrates the way some poetry, through form and content, engages with some of the most pressing and u...
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Histories of Selves: Space, Identity and Subjectivity
The objectivist concern with placing experience within its context provides some indications earlier on in the twentieth century of the kind of poetry that might emerge from reconfigurations of time and place....
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Aesthetics of Space: Cubism to Language Poetry
Cubism and the use of collage techniques are both illustrations of the beginnings of a turn towards the ‘spatial’ in the twentieth century, a turn which was, in part, to escape the over-determination of classi...
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The Space Age: The 1950s to the 1970s
In the three volumes of The Maximus Poems Charles Olson constructed a poem based on the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, while in his ‘Lunch Poems’, Frank O’Hara traced his walks through the city of New York. B...
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Space, Place and Identity
If identity is pragmatically linked to our place of origin and of residence, language, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, then in recent years identities have become more fluid and impermanent as the world’s pop...
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Through the Looking Glass: Poetry in Virtual Worlds
Writing about the relationship between the Internet, digital technologies and poetry and poetics within the context of changing ideas of space can be both a beguiling and a baffling process. It is beguiling in...
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Spatial Theories and Poetic Practices
The ‘spatial turn’ in cultural and social theory is more than simply an increased interest in space or spatial relations brought about by low-cost travel, the development of the Internet and the activities of ...
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Now You See It: Visual Poetry and the Space of the Page
Despite its marginal status on an experimental wing of the literary world, ‘concrete’ or ‘visual’ poetry, work that emphasizes the materiality of language and the visual elements of the poem, has been an impor...
