A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry

Thesis (M.A.) , 2016 , 46 Pages , Grade: 100

Literature - Comparative Literature

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Defining Visual poetry

A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry

Intertextuality (pastiche)

Hyper reality and Techno-culture

Iconoclasm

Formlessness

Populism

Groundlessness

Postmodernism decadence and the appearance of post-post modernism

Conclusion

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Works Cited

• Course: MA
• Grade: 100
• Author: Mahmoud Sokar (Author)
• Publication Year: 2016
• Pages: 46
• Catalog Number: V535117
• ISBN (eBook): 9783346132536
• ISBN (Book): 9783346132543
• Language: English
• Tags: postmodern, reading, visual, poetry