The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Bodies of Poems : Graphic Poetics in a Historical Perspective

På svenska

Author

  • Lennart Nyberg

Summary, in English

How is meaning created by a poem? Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and print? In Bodies of Poems the author argues that the material properties of poetic texts are meaningful in their own right but often ignored and made invisible in poetry criticism. Through a number of examples ranging from the introduction of print technology in the fifteenth century to late twentieth-century poets such as Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney, this study examines the ways in which poems are products of the contemporary state of print technology, legal and social definitions of authors and texts, and culturally and historically determined assumptions about the self and the body. Although indebted to recent innovative work in textual criticism, this book is a pioneering attempt to place the study of poetic texts as material artefacts in a sustained historical narrative.

Department/s

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Publication/Series

Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts

Volume

6

Document type

Book

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • English poetry
  • American poetry
  • Transmission of texts
  • Literature and Technology
  • Literature and Society
  • Poetics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1662-0364
  • ISBN: 978-3-03911-343-9