A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry
Author | : Mahmoud Sokar |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783346132536 |
ISBN-13 | : 3346132536 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry written by Mahmoud Sokar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.