Emergent Poetics

Ecological Sites in Contemporary Poetry

Travis W. Matteson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 117 Seiten

2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-70736-0 (ISBN)

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This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange. Emergent poetics emphasizes the speculative, non-prosthetic quality of media: the anthrodecentric perspective that media do not simply extend human senses, but instead consist of properties that exceed human apprehension. This study builds on Eve Kosofky Sedgwick’s theory of reparative reading, contemporary media theory, and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, which are united in their skepticism regarding the paranoid “unveiling” gesture of institutional critique, their emphasis on methodology rather than theoretical ideology, and their insistence on assembling rather than deconstructing. In response to these three trends, this project begins by attending to what Jerome McGann calls the bibliographic code (material forms), while simultaneously expanding this medium specific perspective by situating written works within their broader media ecosystems, tracing interactions among media, humans, and nonhumans.

Travis W. Matteson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at SUNY Alfred State College, USA. He has published in the Environmental Humanities journal and the forthcoming book Constructing the Threshold: An Encyclopedia of Concepts at the intersection of Cognition and Writing.

1. Introduction.- 2. Photogram as Poetic Method: Susan Howe’s Materialist Telepathy.- 3. Deep Erasure: Bewilderment in Yedda Morrison’s Darkness.- 4. Network//ed Neutrality: Environmental Textuality in the Ambient Web.- 5. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 135 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Actor-Network Theory • Contemporary Media Theory • Ecocriticism • Ecopoetics • Medium Neutrality • Poetics • Poetry • reparative reading
ISBN-10	3-031-70736-2 / 3031707362
ISBN-13	978-3-031-70736-0 / 9783031707360
Zustand	Neuware