Distant Reading by Peter Middleton
A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance. Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins.
Middleton investigates the manifold events that are usually conglomerated together under the name of reading: interactions of voice and text, of phonology, physiology and psychology; the sociology of the poetry reading; the ways that contemporary technologies connect and disperse a poem's readershipThese complexities are exactly what make poetry interesting. Distant Reading promises to be a groundbreaking study of contemporary poetry - and it's a pleasure to read. - Bob Perelman, author of The Marglnalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780817351519 |
| ISBN 10 | 0817351515 |
| Title | Distant Reading |
| Author | Peter Middleton |
| Series | Modern And Contemporary Poetics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Alabama Press |
| Year published | 2005-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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