Making it News in Contemporary Poetry
Abstract: This essay identifies a shared response to news media in poetry written over the past three decades by writers working in Chinese, Russian, and English. These poets often directly incorporate texts and images from news media into their work. Some scholars have argued that this tendency towards the collaging of texts derived from news and social media reflects a shift in poetic subjectivity. However, when seen from a comparative perspective, these and other cut-ups of news and social media are better understood as, on the one hand, an extension of a much longer tradition of literary and artistic responses to the news and, on the other, a renewal of that tradition in response to the intensification of the intertwined pressures of new media and globalization since the end of the Cold War and the rise of the Internet. The article identifies this shared response to media and globalization among a variety of examples in Chinese, Russian, and English, including Kirill Medvedev’s «Текст, п.... https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk/article/view/60
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Making it News in Contemporary Poetry ; volume:2 ; day:26 ; month:04 ; year:2021
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik ; 2 (26.04.2021)
- Creator
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Edmond , Jacob
- DOI
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10.25353/ubtr-izfk-a0b0-8d16
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021043013322969109523
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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