Matore Daniel (Lecturer In Modern American And Comparative Literature University Of York)
Matore Daniel (Lecturer In Modern American And Comparative Literature University Of York) - The Graphics Of Verse Experimental Typography In Twentieth - Century Poetry - Hardcover
Matore Daniel (Lecturer In Modern American And Comparative Literature University Of York) - The Graphics Of Verse Experimental Typography In Twentieth - Century Poetry - Hardcover
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Description: Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth - century poetry look so different to those of twentieth - century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print - - from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface - - is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented the typographical explorations of poets writing in English have been largely neglected. This volume confronts a major unanswered question: why did British and American poets from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the present day choose to experiment with the design and lay - out of the printed page? This book aims to provide the first detailed account of this lineage of literary style examining the poetry and criticism of figures such as Ezra Pound Hope Mirrlees William Carlos Williams E. E. Cummings Marianne Moore David Jones Denise Levertov Charles Olson Frances Motz Boldereff and J. H. Prynne. It draws on unpublished archival materials to show how poets began to draft sketch and compose in new and eccentric ways as they annexed the roles of book designer and printer. Typography it argues was instrumental in debates about metre free verse and the nature of poetry as poems morphed into scores slogans maps and signs. It investigates how the typography of poetry was animated by musicology psychophysics linguistics politics ophthalmology cartography and advertising.
Title: The Graphics Of Verse Experimental Typography In Twentieth - Century Poetry
Author(s): Matore Daniel (Lecturer In Modern American And Comparative Literature University Of York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192857217
Pages: 256 Pages, 13 Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/7/2024
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth - century poetry look so different to those of twentieth - century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print - - from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface - - is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented the typographical explorations of poets writing in English have been largely neglected. This volume confronts a major unanswered question: why did British and American poets from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the present day choose to experiment with the design and lay - out of the printed page? This book aims to provide the first detailed account of this lineage of literary style examining the poetry and criticism of figures such as Ezra Pound Hope Mirrlees William Carlos Williams E. E. Cummings Marianne Moore David Jones Denise Levertov Charles Olson Frances Motz Boldereff and J. H. Prynne. It draws on unpublished archival materials to show how poets began to draft sketch and compose in new and eccentric ways as they annexed the roles of book designer and printer. Typography it argues was instrumental in debates about metre free verse and the nature of poetry as poems morphed into scores slogans maps and signs. It investigates how the typography of poetry was animated by musicology psychophysics linguistics politics ophthalmology cartography and advertising.
Title: The Graphics Of Verse Experimental Typography In Twentieth - Century Poetry
Author(s): Matore Daniel (Lecturer In Modern American And Comparative Literature University Of York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192857217
Pages: 256 Pages, 13 Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/7/2024
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
