Close listening [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and the performed word / / edited by Charles Bernstein

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.1
• Soggetto topico: Poetics; American poetry - History and criticism; English poetry - History and criticism
• Altri autori: BernsteinCharles <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-390).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. SOUND'S MEASURES; 1 Letter on Sound; 2 The Aural Ellipsis and the Nature of Listening in Contemporary Poetry; 3 Praxis: A Political Economy of Noise and Information; 4 After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries; 5 Ether Either; II. PERFORMING WORDS; 6 Visual Performance of the Poetic Text; 7 Voice in Extremis; 8 Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability; 9 Speech Effects: The Talk as a Genre; 10 Sound Reading; III. CLOSE HEARINGS/HISTORICAL SETTINGS; 11 Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding; 12 The Contemporary Poetry Reading ; 13 Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement14 Was That ""Different,"" ""Dissident"" or ""Dissonant""? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions; 15 Local Vocals: Hawaiis Pidgin Literature, Performance, and Postcoloniality; Afterword: Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading; Audio Resources; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as Marjorie Perloff, Susan Stewart, Johanna Drucker, Dennis Tedlock, and Susan Howe, is the first comprehensive introduction to the ways in which twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performanc
• Titolo autorizzato: Close listening
• ISBN: 1-280-45325-7; 0-19-535507-5; 0-19-510992-9; 1-4237-5954-0; 1-60256-155-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792232603321
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