Since the advent of capture technologies poets have advanced, through their experimental practice, an expanded understanding of what constitutes a text to incorporate not only its content, but also its construction. Reframed by morphological and mechanical perspectives, our changing relationship with sound and image was constituent to a cumulative process of artistic abstraction that would, in time, come to define modernity. By highlighting the importance of technologies such as telegraphy and electricity in the conception of poetry as a connecting force, of photography and cinema in the recalibration of our perceptions of subject and object, and of gramophony, radio, television and computing technologies as key agents in a process of naturalization regarding the relationship between poetry and its audience, this thesis will attempt to illustrate the progression of technology-led abstraction in oral, written and music based poetries from the beginning of the industrial age to the present day. Our relationship with the communication technologies we invent has become increasingly interwoven with the epistemological structures such mechanisms advance. This thesis will propose that as a consequence, the ways we organise and remediate texts, sounds and images into new, creative contexts that utilize the mass communication technologies and distribution networks of our modern experience positions electronic music, rap, digital memes and other interdisciplinary modes of digital expression as significant poetic forms. Our day-to-day engagement with diverse media allows us to reconfigure all our manifestations of self and any examination of mass media's impact on poetic expression must likewise constitute a reading of both literary and popular materials. To this end, this thesis will consider the progressive technologization of our engagement with oral, written and music-based poetries that media technologies facilitate within the context of the praxis of prominent poets, their literary theories and those of the literary movements they endorsed.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard, 1955. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-282).

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Absurd literature originated and was developed in the middle of the 20 th century in the West. The brightest representatives of this type of literature are Albert Camus, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Becket and others. In their works they raised the problem of meaninglessness of human existence, loneliness of an individual and man’s inability to communicate with other people. Are these absurd literature ideas topical issues in contemporary Lithuanian literature? The poetics of Absurd literature in Lithuanian literature practically has not been researched. One reason might have been that there has not been pure Lithuanian literature of the Absurd, except for perhaps Kostas Ostrauskas’s plays. The other reason is probably the fact that the manifestation of absurd literature is often accepted as an ironic, humorous and not very serious text component. This paper deals with a collection of poems and fiction called „Prisimynimai“ by Juozas Erlickas, National Prize Laureate. The main intention of the paper is to prove that an absurd attitude of mind is not alien to Lithuanian literature. The main characters of J. Erlickas’s works feel inactive, pessimistic, they do not see meaning in life, try to avoid contact with the surrounding world. This makes them very similar to the classical absurd literature characters, who are also constantly troubled by boredom and a sense of aimlessness. One of the main themes in Erlickas’s works is a theme of human alienation, which is expanded by the writer... [to full text]

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