How Is Digital Poetry Avant-Garde?
| Document type: | Conference Presentations |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Maria Engberg, Jay Bolter |
| Title: | How Is Digital Poetry Avant-Garde? |
| Translated title: | Hur är digital poesi avantgardistisk? |
| Conference name: | Questions autour de la poésie numérique / questions on digital poetry |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | University Paris |
| City: | Paris |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning (*** !Error ***) *** Error *** +46 455 38 50 00 *** Error *** |
| Authors e-mail: | maria.engberg@bth.se, jay.bolter@lcc.gatech.edu |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we discuss the opportunities and the difficulties of applying the concept of the avant-garde to digital poetry and poetics. We examine the question with reference to a body of critical and poetic works and performances from the recent E-poetry 2007 symposium in Paris. These works suggest that digital poetry treats the historical avant-garde as a tradition to draw on, rather than a model to emulate through truly disruptive practice. |
| Subject: | The Humanities\English The Humanities\Comparative Literature |
| Keywords: | avant-garde, digital poesi, litteratur, digitala medier |
