When print alone fails poetry
Performance as a contingency of literary value
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12369569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Z Athanases (0000-0002-1839-9000, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 116-127 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939109366000 |
| OpenAlex | W2121311071 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Poetry holds educative and experiential power for those beyond the academic elite, particularly in the case of poems with strong audience appeal, poems whose values are often as much contingent upon speech and performance as they are on print. The hegemony of print in our culture, however, has led us to devalue such poems, threatening their survival unless poets, editors, teachers, and performers make conscious efforts culturally to reproduce such works. In order to articulate a methodology for identifying poems that print alone does not serve well, this essay culls features from three twentieth‐century literary traditions that have worked against the limiting and limited power of print: African American poetics, Beat poetics, and Feminist poetics. Beyond identifying such poems, editors, producers, and teachers can make various kinds of efforts to bring these poems and performances of them into the orbit of attention of our students
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Contingency · Elite · Hegemony · Limiting · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Power (physics · Print culture · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |