Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 73-90 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | ENGLISH IN EDUCATION |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 11 Oct 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 11 Oct 2021 |
Keywords
- Digital multimodal interpretation
- creative interpretation of poetry
- higher education
- mashups
- postdigital literary studies
- postdigital stylistics