Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar Series
Dr. Edward Luker
Examining the works of contemporary experimental poets such as Verity Spott, Sean Bonney, and David Marriott, this paper explores the dialectical relation between the lyric poem and social reality. The lyric poem is commonly considered to be the expression of an atomised individual voice or subject (Blasing, 2007). By utilising theorisations of the lyric poem, experimentalism, and subjectivity (including Fred Moten and Theodor Adorno), and in opposition to common understandings of the lyric, this paper articulates how poetry is a refusal and a re-fusing of the subject as such. When applied to contemporary experimental poetry, the category of refusal can be used to articulate the social life of the poem beyond the rigid definitions of subjectivity that characterise existence under capitalism.
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Nov 2018 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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