komninos zervos on Wed, 19 Dec 2001 02:15:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace? |
i need help. i'm studying modes of recognition of poetry. on the web, how do we recognize words used in language as poetry, how do we know we are having a poem? i mean before we start to interpret it or process it for meaning/feeling. in print we see a visual pattern or arrangement, we see line lengths, we see indentations from the left margin and we visually recognize it as poetry, we see also phonological elements, rhyme, rhythms translated from oral culture, we then interpret what we read as poetry, or by the special rules of reading a text as belonging to a poetic discourse. in live performance there are visual recognition stimuli; a spotlit area; a microphone; chairs arranged in a room pointing towards the performance area; a person holding an opened book or papers. There are definitely phonological signs we identify also; the poet's projected voice (not normal speaking voice); sound patterns (rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance) being sounded, which we have learnt to recognize as poetry. in web environments how do i tell if i've come across a poem? is it merely the same signs we use to recognize poetry in print and in live performance, or are there unique recognition stimuli for web/cyber/new/digital/hypermedia poetry? do we need visual evidence of text or aural presence of text to be poetry in this medium? i would appreciate some thoughts on this cheers komninos -- komninos zervos bsc(hons) ma(creative writing) http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/K_Zervos Convenor CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Gold Coast Campus PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia tel: +61 7 55528872 fax: +61 7 55528141 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold