Postdigital stylistics
Creative multimodal interpretation of poetry and internet mashups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21548023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kieran O’halloran (0000-0003-3424-994X, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-90 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0425-0494 • E-ISSN: 1754-8845 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/04250494.2021.1937112 |
| OpenAlex | W3205480176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Stylistics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic analysis of style in language, particularly literary style. Poetry has been a staple of stylistics. Creative performance of poems and stylistic analysis, however, have rarely been bedfellows. I showcase a stylistics pedagogy for creatively interpreting poetry in higher education where students make digitally multimodal storied interpretations of poems. The pedagogy reflects contemporary internet mashup culture, recognising that students inhabit a “postdigital” world where commonplace software and resources offer opportunities for DIY juxtaposition of audio and video for different purposes – artistic, comedic, etc. An advantage of such Postdigital Stylistics is that it integrates performance-based readers, marginalised in exegetical reading practices associated with print. I illustrate the pedagogy with a student video of Charles Bukowski’s poem “the bluebird”, accessible analysis of its foregrounded style, and explanation of how this analysis – crucially – motivates shot design
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Mashup · Poetry · Sociology · Stylistics · The Internet · Web 2.0 · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |