A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry
Author | : Mahmoud Sokar |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3346132536 |
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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 100, , course: MA, language: English, abstract: This study aims at clarifying and defining the development of visual poetry movement through the term, postmodernism. Moreover, it tries to focus on the major features of postmodernism applied in some modern visual poems written or designed by contemporary and modern visual poets. These features are iconoclasm, groundlessness, formlessness, populism, intertextuality (pastiche), hyper reality, and techno-culture. Then, it moves to give a detailed account of the features of post-postmodernism in the genre, especially in Fluxes visual poems which are also known as performance poems.