| Description |
1 online resource (x, 348 pages) |
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SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture |
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SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: An overview -- The historical avant-gardes: futurist metaphors -- The sixties neo-avant-gardes: a political turn -- Digital poetry and metaphor's reprise -- Modernisms on the move: mechanic, kinetic, cinematic -- Letters and lettrism: deconstructing the new vanguards -- Latin American digital poetry: animated embodiment -- Modernismo: cannibalistic appropriation and advertisement -- Concrete aesthetics: abstraction, mass media, and ideology -- Luso-Brazilian e-poetry and performance -- Conclusion: Toward a radical aesthetics? |
| Summary |
With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the "literary" means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated. Radical Poetry examines how poets use the latest technologies (cinematography, radio, television, and software) to create poetry that self-consciously interrogates its own form, through close alliances with conceptual and abstract art, performance, photography, film, and new media. To do so, Ledesma draws on pertinent theories of metaphor, affect, time, space, iconicity, and cybernetics. Ldesma shows how José Juan Tablada (Mexico), Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Catalonia), Clemente Padín (Uruguay), Fernando Millán (Spain), Décio Pignatari (Brazil), Ana María Uribe (Argentina), and others turn words, machines, and, more recently, the digital into flesh, making word-objects "come alive" by assembling text to act and seem human, whether on the page, on walls, or on screens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Latin America
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Modernism (Literature) -- Latin America
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438462028 |
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1438462026 |
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