Projektbeschreibung
Von der Populärkultur zur hohen Kunst: Vielfalt in der zeitgenössischen Poesie
Das EU-finanzierte Projekt Poetry in the Digital Age (PoetryDA) ist zwischen den wissenschaftlichen Fachbereichen der Literatur, Kultur und Interart angesiedelt. Es wird Instrumente entwickeln, mit denen die vielgestaltigen Poesieformate, die von der Populärkultur zu Werken der „hohen“ Kunst reichen, untersucht werden. Dabei werden die neuen Formen und Orte der Präsentationen und Darbietungen kritisch beleuchtet – von der Theaterbühne bis zu Social Media, von der geschriebenen Seite bis zum urbanen Raum. Die Forschung gliedert sich in drei Teilprojekte, welche sich auf (1) Poesie und Performance, (2) Poesie und Musik, sowie (3) Poesie und Visuelle Kultur konzentrieren. Ein interdisziplinäres Team Forschender aus den Bereichen der Literaturwissenschaft, Medien- und Filmwissenschaft, Performance Studies, Sound Studies, Sprachwissenschaft und Visual Culture Studies wird gemeinsam an der Ausarbeitung dieses Gebietes arbeiten.
Ziel
Contemporary performative, musical and audiovisual poetry is opening up access to a genre that has frequently been considered abstract and elitist. Sophisticated ‘book poetry’ is being enhanced by popular formats and vice versa. Poetry is also gaining new functions, creating communities characterized by physical or virtual co-presence. Popular poetry formats and online practices promote the self-staging of the poet. Poetry may also serve as a tool for political activism, the expression of opinions and the playful negotiation of transculturality and multilingualism.
This project is situated between literary, cultural and interart studies. It will develop tools to analyze to-day’s multifaceted poetry formats, ranging from pop culture to works of ‘high’ art, by scrutinizing their forms and sites of presentation and performance, ranging from the stage to social media, from the written page to the urban space.
It will answer the following questions: What factors have contributed to poetry’s current popularity? What is the best way to systemize its sub-genres? What new methods and theories are required to analyze them? How do entertainment and ‘high’ culture oppose one another, interact or mix? Which are the functions (aesthetic, cultural, social, political) of these new forms and modes of presentation?
Research will be divided in three main areas, focusing on (1) poetry and performance, (2) poetry and music, and (3) poetry and visual culture. An interdisciplinary team comprising scholars from the fields of lit-erary studies, media and film studies, performance studies, sound studies, speech science and visual culture studies will work together to map this field.
By writing a poetics of new forms, this project will be the first to study the great diversity, medial spectrum and dissemination of contemporary poetry. Its results will modify and extend the definition of poetry, changing the way that scholars, poets and the general public view this literary genre.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
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Finanzierungsplan
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantGastgebende Einrichtung
20148 Hamburg
Deutschland