Digital Poetry and the Transcendence of Print Poetry's Boundaries

Interactivity and the Reader

von Rachid Benharrousse

44 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 16/20, , language: English, abstract: In this monograph, I argue that English digital poetry has transcended the boundaries of print poetry through main interactivity. Thus, in chapter 1, I will present definitions of digital poetry and argue against their validity (Stefans, Jhave, Trimarco, Bohn, etc.); then I will present Funkhouser's definition with the intention of demonstrating its accuracy. In chapter 2, I will argue that through interactivity, as a fundamental literary device and tool in digital literature as a whole, digital poetry is capable of transcending the boundaries of the print (juxtaposition, syntax, multipoeticality, etc,.). In chapter 3, I argue that the reader is less involved in the print medium than in digital medium wherein s/he is the primary force in the processes of editing, co-writing, choosing, and existing in the text. Thus, through these three chapters, I aim to prove that digital poetry has in fact transcended the boundaries of print poetry. One must note that the digital example in this paper cannot be printed; hence my use of only screenshots to make up for the inability to show them in their original, digital form.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9783346017512
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2019
• Größe: 210 x 148 mm
• Verlag: GRIN Verlag