ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Contemporary performative, musical and audiovisual poetry is opening up access to a genre that has frequently been considered abstract and elitist. Sophisticated ‘book poetry’ is being enhanced by popular formats and vice versa. Poetry is also gaining new functions, creating communities characterized by physical or virtual co-presence. Popular poetry formats and online practices promote the self-staging of the poet. Poetry may also serve as a tool for political activism, the expression of opinions and the playful negotiation of transculturality and multilingualism. This project is situated between literary, cultural and interart studies. It will develop tools to analyze to-day’s…
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