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Poetry in the Digital Age

An Interdisciplinary Handbook
  • Claudia Benthien , Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier
  • Edited by: Claudia Benthien , Vadim Keylin and Henrik Wehmeier
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Poetry in the Digital Age
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Volume 5 | Poetry in the Digital Age

About this book

As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplinary handbook is thus addressed both to literary scholars and to the broadest academic audience interested in contemporary poetry research. It offers 50 contributions by an international collective of authors that highlight the diversity of contemporary poetry, examining it from a wide variety of complementing theoretical and methodological angles.

The handbook focuses on contemporary modes of poetry presentation that are often located beyond the book, e.g., on stages, in public spaces, as multi- as well as transmedia publications, or on digital platforms. Such intermedial poetic practices, which may supplement poetic language with elements borrowed from music, visual art, cinema, or theater and performance, are transforming the forms and functions of poetry. It four parts thus (1) adapt established concepts and parameters of poetry research to the digital age, (2) explore established genres and emerging formats, (3) introduce interdisciplinary perspectives and new research fields, and (4) engage in current debates.

Author / Editor information

Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien, University of Hamburg, Germany; Vadim Keylin, Ph.D., University of Hamburg, Germany; Dr. Henrik Wehmeier, University of Hamburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter

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Contents

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Preface

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Introduction

Claudia Benthien
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Part I: Adapting the Concepts and Parameters of Poetry Research
I.1 Lyric Genre Theory

Louise Mønster
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I.2 Poetic Function

Esther Kilchmann
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I.3 Poetic Language

Claudia Benthien
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I.4 Poetological Poetry

Antje Schmidt
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I.5 Lyric Subjectivity

Henrieke Stahl
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I.6 Mood (Stimmung) in Poetry

Eva Zettelmann
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I.7 Cycles and Sequential Structures

Jan Röhnert
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I.8 Verse, Stanza, and Versification

Kira Henkel
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I.9 Rhyme, Meter, and Rhythm

Fabian Wolbring
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I.10 Musicality and Sangbarkeit

Frieder von Ammon
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I.11 Voice and Orality

Vadim Keylin
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I.12 Layout and Typography

Judith Niehaus
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Part II: Between Established Genres and Emerging Formats
II.1 Printed Poetry

Solveig Daugaard
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II.2 Live Oral Poetry

Daniela Silva de Freitas
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II.3 Musicalized Poetry

Antonio Rodriguez
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II.4 Recorded and Audioliterary Poetry

Marc Matter
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II.5 Audiovisual Poetry

Anna Hofman and Antje Schmidt
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II.6 Digital Poetry

Wiebke Vorrath
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II.7 Social Media Poetry

Magdalena Elisabeth Korecka
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II.8 Political and Activist Poetry

Alessandro Achilli
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II.9 Poetry as Public Art

Claudia Benthien and Norbert Gestring
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Part III: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Research Fields
III.1 Lyricology

Ralph Müller
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III.2 Cultural Studies and Literary Sociology

Mike Chasar
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III.3 Gender and Queer Studies 

Jayrôme C. Robinet
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III.4 Cultural Memory Studies

Anna Hofman
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III.5 Postcolonial Studies

Jahan Ramazani
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III.6 Multilingualism Research

Franziska Bergmann
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III.7 Sound Studies and Musicology

Vadim Keylin
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III.8 Speech Communication Studies

Rebecka Dürr
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III.9 Audio Media Research

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
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III.10 Performance and Theater Studies

Cornelia Gräbner
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III.11 Film Studies

Henrik Wehmeier
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III.12 Visual Culture Studies

Yvonne Al-Taie
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III.13 Media Art Research

Claudia Benthien
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III.14 Media Linguistics and Multimodal Studies

Olga Sokolova
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III.15 Media Ecology and Media Archaeology

Jesper Olsson
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III.16 Digital Humanities

Jessica Pressman
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Part IV: Current Debates
IV.1 Poetry Performance between Liveness and Mediatization

Henrik Wehmeier
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IV.2 Staging the Self in Spoken-Word Poetry

Julia Novak
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IV.3 Performative Epitexts in Poetry Readings

Jörg Döring
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IV.4 Aesthetics of Access in Contemporary Poetry

Clara Cosima Wolff
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IV.5 Entanglements of Pop Lyrics and Poetry

Eckhard Schumacher
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IV.6 Contemporary Poetry as Commodity

Heinz Drügh
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IV.7 Digital Publishing of Poetry and its Detractors

Lili Pâquet
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IV.8 Representational Politics and Poetry

Solveig Daugaard
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IV.9 Global Poetry and the Limits of Translation

Peter Stein Larsen
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IV.10 Digital Poetics between Signification and Spectacle

Roberto Simanowski
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IV.11 AI Creativity and Poetry

Vadim Keylin and Wiebke Vorrath
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IV.12 Posthumanism and Poetry in the Anthropocene

Hans Kristian Strandstuen Rustad
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IV.13 Negotiation and Critique of Digitality in Page Poetry

Claudia Benthien
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Names Index

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Subject Index

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Keywords for this book
Poetry; digitalization; literature; media_x000D_
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Literary studies scholars; poetry researchers; interdisciplinary scholars of the humanities
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