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1	Communication Codes and Critical Editing: Recognizing Materiality in the Work of bpNichol Wooler, Katherine 14 August 2013 (has links) Studying the diverse, experimental, and unconventional work—particularly poetry—of Canadian writer bpNichol requires a better understanding of the material characteristics he used to give his writing unique significance. Nichol’s poems call for a plurality of new analytical methods, since traditional editorial and critical approaches often overlook the importance of materiality. This thesis presents three different approaches to critically considering Nichol’s work and highlighting its material aspects: comparing Nichol’s poetry to Dada aesthetics, examining multiple versions of individual poems using genetic criticism, and looking at the changes and similarities between print and digital material characteristics from the even wider perspective of media archaeology. Additionally, the benefits of a digital edition are argued in relation to all three editorial approaches, as digital presentation augments the focus on the materiality that is so integral to reading Nichol.
2	Dissensus and Poetry: The Poet as Activist in Experimental English-Canadian Poetry Leduc, Natalie 28 January 2019 (has links) Many of us believe that poetry, specifically activist and experimental poetry, is capable of intervening in our society, as though the right words will call people to action, give the voiceless a voice, and reorder the systems that perpetuate oppression, even if there are few examples of such instances. Nevertheless, my project looks at these very moments, when poetry alters the fabric of our real, to explore the ways these poetical interventions are, in effect, instances of what I have come to call “dissensual” poetry. Using Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus and the distribution of the sensible, my project investigates the ways in which dissensual poetry ruptures the distribution of the sensible—“our definite configurations of what is given as our real, as the object of our perceptions and the field of our interventions”—to look at the ways poetry actually does politics (Dissensus 156). I look at three different types of dissensual poetry: concrete poetry, sound poetry, and instapoetry. I argue that these poetic practices prompt a reordering of our society, of what is countable and unaccountable, and of how bodies, capacities, and systems operate. They allow for those whom Rancière calls the anonymous, and whom we might call the oppressed or marginalized, to become known. I argue that bpNichol’s, Judith Copithorne’s, and Steve McCaffery’s concrete poems; the Four Horsemen’s, Penn Kemp’s, and Christian Bök’s sound poems; and rupi kaur’s instapoems are examples of dissensual poetry. Canadian literature Canadian poetry Experimental poetry Concrete poetry Visual poetry Sound poetry Instagram poetry Instapoetry bpNichol Steve McCaffery Judith Copithorne The Four Horsemen Penn Kemp Christian Bök rupi kaur instapoet Stephen Collis Sina Queyras Jacques Rancière Dissensus Activism Activist Walter Benjamin Michael Warner

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Communication Codes and Critical Editing: Recognizing Materiality in the Work of bpNichol

Dissensus and Poetry: The Poet as Activist in Experimental English-Canadian Poetry