| Distant Reading Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry | | | Author:
| Middleton, Peter | | Series title: | Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser. | | ISBN: | 978-0-8173-5151-9 | | Publication Date: | Mar 2005 | | Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $29.95 | Book Description:
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Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance--recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen--rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words. Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance--recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen--rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words. | |