As an alternative to print media, digital media make us newly aware of the materiality of experimental poetic texts and require us to account for their media-specific differences. Although already several theoretical models have been put forward to define these differences, so far few poems have been analyzed in terms of their media-specific textual materiality. This thesis seeks to fill this gap in the applied media-specific analysis of experimental poetry. It combines traditional close reading with a media-specific approach in order to investigate the relationship between the physical characteristics and signifying strategies of four experimental poetic texts in various digital and non-digital media. It critically interrogates the specific use of the given medium in each poem, and illustrates that their respective textual materiality cannot be specified in advance based on general assumptions concerning the medium in question. A digital poem is not inherently more innovative than a non-digital poem. Rather, a poem is perceived as innovative if it resists conventional reading strategies by establishing a particularly complex, dynamic, and effectively anomalous sense of textual materiality, which necessarily only emerges from the direct interplay among text, object, and reader.

"March 2002". / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2005. / Bibliography: p. 324-344. / Introduction: framing the texts -- Subversive voices -- Formulating a theoretical position -- Performance: a complete process -- On second thoughts: rewriting contemporary culture -- Performing On second thoghts -- Dialogic voices: Amanda Stewart and # -- Performing # -- Voices of desire: Ania Walwicz and Soft -- Performing Soft -- Marginal voices: Hazel Smith and Poet without language -- Performing Poet without language -- Conclusions: interpreting subversive voices. / This study considers the text and performance of four Australian experimental poets, Chris Mann, Amanda Stewart, Ania Walwicz and Hazel Smith. My aim is to demonstrate how the genre of experimental poetry uses language and performance in such a way as to rewrite existing dominant discourses. The challenge as an analyst is to find ways into such reflexive texts that use intertextual resources of critical theory as their subject matter. The perspective employed here engages with the theories posited by the texts and allows for a theoretical position removed from the structure and theories informing them. -- The study is organised in two parts. First, I consider the subversiveness of the genre drawing on Raymond Williams' notion of the emergent, followed by a discussion of important predecessors in the field of experimentation. I then outline the particular method of enquiry and theoretical framework used here to analyse the meaning potential of such works. Systemic Functional Grammar and Multimodal Discourse theory are discussed and their particular application in this study. The second part of the thesis applies these theories to the experimental works. -- I begin explaining my theoretical position by considering the weakness of the commonly used theories of Kristeva's 'semiotic' to analyse such works. I found Systemic Functional Grammar, as developed by Michael Halliday and then Terry Threadgold, to be a useful tool for elucidating the meaning potential behind the fractured grammars in the texts. It also provided a way of conceptualising enunciative positions and the way intertextual resources might be rewritten. From within this linguistic framework I was able to discern subversive messages from the intertwined theories ranging across the texts from Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism and multiculturalism. -- The performance posed another challenge as the improvised spoken texts, uniquely performed by these artists, create a subversive listening position for the audience, which engages with both the words and sounds for their sonic and semantic qualities. I consider many ways of addressing the role and behaviour of the performer and listener as well as the performance as a creative process, emerging from the two. I engage the model put forward by Kress and Van Leeuwen for analysis of multimodal texts which provides a functional approach to meaning potential in the performance and its varying layers. Within this model, I found prosody most useful for its ability to notate intonation, key, disjuncture and stress, exposing the dialogic voices and the relationship between semantics and sound in the performances. This form of communication is equivalent to the indexical entailment of sound and music which forms the basis for communication between performers, and between performer and audience. The dialogic situation is enhanced by both prosody and indexical entailment providing possible meanings. I use some traditional musicological analysis but my aim is to move away from such formalistic descriptions to consider culturally inscribed sounds and their interpretation using a functional model. -- Throughout, the complexity of experimental performance is evident but the theoretical frame used here might be applied to other works of this nature as a means of further understanding the semiotic web in subversive texts. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / 344 p., music

This paper proposes to explore language as an expressing medium for contemporary czech artists. Many of them uses analogical creation ways as the experimental poets did in the sixties. First part of this paper focuses on terms of semilogy and post-structuralistic philosophy and their influence over expressions of artists from range of experimental poetry. It is going put the accent mainly on their art invetnions, that have impact untill today. From this experience, the endeavour of contemporary artists origins to determinate, or cross the borders of their own expressing abilities. Based on analysis of selected czech contemporary artworks, the second part of this paper will try to describe the search of horizont of language as an expressing medium for contemporary czech artists.

The practical thesis is based on a visual experimental poetry and its sign system. I am working with own sign system which was inspired by organized fence's structures. These structures were depicted by typographical signs which creates a new graphical compositions. Whole work is organized into three separated author's books. Their interconnection is emphasized by putting into a common case. The first book entitled Poetry of structure – Inspiration establishes contact with readers by means of photographs of spaces and fence's structures. The second book entitled Poetry of structure – Manual is an interlink of the work which informs readers both with the fence's structures and with the typographical compositions. Confrontation of the fence's photographs with the typographical compositions developed an advancement of the reality transformation to the abstract structure. The third book entitled Poetry of structure is the integral poetic anthology. The book presents both the blind blocking of typographical compositions themselves and the final experimental poems based on them.

This master's thesis focuses on Josef Hiršal's work in its entirety. The core will be a literary-historical material research, based on which there will be a complete annotated bibliography (which still does not exist) prepared. The bibliography will consist of Hiršal's original work (poetic and prosaic) and also his translations. It will be stuctured in a chronological order and it will map out period critiques and other responses to Hiršal's works. The bibliography will be preceded by a short summary charasteristics of Hiršal's life and his work throughout the years and there will also be a nominal and an objective index.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Trajetória do grupo de literatura Totem, que se formou na cidade mineira de Cataguases e, no período dos anos de 1960 a 80, projetou sua obra no seu estado, atingiu muitas regiões do país e chegou ao exterior, por meio da edição de jornais, cartões-poemas, revistas e livros, bem como através de volumosa correspondência. Sua contribuição, principalmente na área da poesia experimental e da abertura para outros grupos, procurou sempre a pesquisa e a reformulação da linguagem poética. Buscou-se aqui o registro da experiência de uma equipe de jovens poetas, da qual participou o autor desta dissertação, e que, a partir de uma cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, conseguiu se situar bem no meio desse caldeirão de idéias que teve início na década de 60. / The trajectory of Totem literature group, formed in Cataguases, a small town located in Minas Gerais, Brazil. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Totem circulated its work in this State, reached a lot of parts of the country and abroad, through newspapers issues, poem-cards, magazines and books, as well as a great amount of correspondence. Its contribution, specially in the area of experimental poetry and the opening of other groups, Totem was always focused in poetry language reformulation and research. This paper aimed to record the experience of a group of young poets to which the author of this thesis belonged, describing how from that small town in Minas Gerais that group succeeded in including itself among the other groups and ideas of the early 1960s.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:08:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RenatoMC_DISSERT.pdf: 3451650 bytes, checksum: ef8851a3986204d90a935d71c8b0fbbd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The development of digital technologies has opened up a new niche for artistic production. It began to emerge artworks that could only happen in the digital context. In this study, we investigated the syntax of defining digital poetry, recognized internationally as one of the possibilities of this new artistic practice, and how happens the meaning during the reading process. As research corpus, we chose the poem "Birds Still Warm From Flying", by american poet Jason Nelson. And we structure our analysis looking through three perspectives: the digital poem as a game; as the evolution of experimental trends of twentieth-century poetry; and as a representation of Rubik`s Cube, a famous three-dimensional puzzle from the 1970`s. Initially, we made some considerations about the construction of digital poetry as a hypermedia artwork, looking through convergence and hybridization of artistic and media languages. Then, we saw some similarities between Nelson`s poem and electronic games, based on our critical observations about the concept of interactivity. Subsequently, we wrote a historical overview about the poetic experimentation in the twentieth century, bringing examples of sound poetry and visual poetry as evidence that the birth of digital poetry is also the result of the evolution of these experiments. Finally, we use the Charles Sanders Peirce`s semiotics to analyze the signs that give references able to make us recognize the Rubik`s Cube in "Birds Still Warm From Flying" / Com o desenvolvimento das tecnologias digitais, inaugurou-se um novo nicho para a produ??o art?stica, quando come?aram a surgir obras que s? poderiam ser realizadas no contexto digital. Neste trabalho, investigamos a sintaxe definidora da poesia digital, reconhecida internacionalmente como uma das possibilidades desse novo fazer art?stico, e o modo como se d? a produ??o de sentido durante o processo de leitura. Como corpus de pesquisa, escolhemos o poema Birds Still Warm From Flying , do poeta digital americano Jason Nelson e estruturamos nossa an?lise sob tr?s perspectivas: o poema digital enquanto jogo; enquanto evolu??o de tend?ncias experimentais da poesia do s?culo XX; e enquanto representa??o do Cubo de Rubik, quebra-cabe?a tridimensional conhecido tamb?m como cubo m?gico. De in?cio, foram feitas considera??es a respeito da forma??o da poesia digital enquanto obra de arte em hiperm?dia, a partir da converg?ncia e hibrida??o de linguagens art?sticas e midi?ticas. Em seguida, tecemos semelhan?as entre o poema de Nelson e os jogos eletr?nicos, principalmente com base em observa??es cr?ticas sobre o conceito de interatividade. Posteriormente, realizamos um panorama hist?rico sobre a experimenta??o po?tica no s?culo XX, trazendo exemplos da poesia sonora e da poesia visual como evid?ncias de que o nascimento da poesia digital tamb?m ? fruto da evolu??o desses experimentos. Por ?ltimo, utilizamos a semi?tica de Charles Sanders Peirce para analisar os signos que d?o refer?ncias capazes de nos fazer reconhecer o Cubo de Rubik em Birds Still Warm From Flying

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Trajetória do grupo de literatura Totem, que se formou na cidade mineira de Cataguases e, no período dos anos de 1960 a 80, projetou sua obra no seu estado, atingiu muitas regiões do país e chegou ao exterior, por meio da edição de jornais, cartões-poemas, revistas e livros, bem como através de volumosa correspondência. Sua contribuição, principalmente na área da poesia experimental e da abertura para outros grupos, procurou sempre a pesquisa e a reformulação da linguagem poética. Buscou-se aqui o registro da experiência de uma equipe de jovens poetas, da qual participou o autor desta dissertação, e que, a partir de uma cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, conseguiu se situar bem no meio desse caldeirão de idéias que teve início na década de 60. / The trajectory of Totem literature group, formed in Cataguases, a small town located in Minas Gerais, Brazil. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Totem circulated its work in this State, reached a lot of parts of the country and abroad, through newspapers issues, poem-cards, magazines and books, as well as a great amount of correspondence. Its contribution, specially in the area of experimental poetry and the opening of other groups, Totem was always focused in poetry language reformulation and research. This paper aimed to record the experience of a group of young poets to which the author of this thesis belonged, describing how from that small town in Minas Gerais that group succeeded in including itself among the other groups and ideas of the early 1960s.

Réputée pour son obscurité, la poésie de Friederike Mayröcker n’est cependant pas hermétique. Bien au contraire, la poétesse développe une œuvre ouverte d’une extrême densité,multipliant les possibilités d’interprétation. Elle réalise une écriture du dialogue, fondée sur l’alliance de tendances opposées ainsi que sur l’intertextualité et l’intermédialité, créant des textes en mouvement. L’étude des poèmes rédigés entre 1939 à 2003, au cœur de ce travail, révèle alors successivement toute l’importance de l’union entre l’inspiration et le calcul, le rêve et le montage,l’autobiographie et la poétique, voire la poétologie, la poésie de la nature et la poésie engagée,enfin la littérature, les arts et la musique. Quête du « texte total », ancrée dans la modernité par rapport à laquelle elle se situe, la poésie de Friederike Mayröcker tente de rendre son autonomie à la langue sans renoncer pour autant à toute forme de lyrisme. Ainsi se distingue-t-elle des productions du Groupe de Vienne, auxquelles on l’associe néanmoins fréquemment, et occupe une place si particulière dans le paysage littéraire germanophone de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. / Renowned for its obscurity, Friederike Mayröcker’s poetry ishowever not abstruse. On the contrary, the poetess develops an open work, extremely dense, whichmultiplies the interpretative possibilities. She elaborates a dialogical writing, based on thecombination of contraries as well as on intertextuality and intermediality, creating texts that areconstantly on the move. The poems that are the heart of this study, written between 1939 and2003, show therefore the great importance of the union, respectively, between inspiration andcalculation, dream and montage, autobiography and poetic, indeed poetology, nature poetry andmilitant poetry, finally literature, art and music. In search for the « total text », a search rooted inthe modernity vis-à-vis which it positions itself, Friederike Mayröcker’s poetry tries to liberatelanguage without renouncing all lyrical form. In this it distinguishes itself from the works of theVienna Group, to which it has been nevertheless frequently associated, and hence takes a quietparticular place in the German-speaking literary scene of the second half of the twentieth century.

<p>A collection of poems navigating and negotiating the powerful mythological forces in the speaker’s life, from Irish revolutionary history to “canonical” literary figures to American comic books. These poems ask the reader to consider how language, narrative, and art shape the world, and so how we come to know ourselves through the texts—no matter their form or shape—we encounter.</p>