Descripción del proyecto
De la cultura popular al arte elevado: estudio de la diversidad de la poesía contemporánea
El proyecto de investigación Poetry in the Digital Age (PoetryDA), financiado con fondos europeos se sitúa entre los estudios de literatura, culturales y entre artes. Desarrollará herramientas para analizar los formatos poéticos multifacéticos actuales, que van desde la cultura pop a obras de arte «elevado», mediante el examen de sus formas y lugares de presentación y representación, que van desde el escenario del teatro a las redes sociales, desde el papel escrito al espacio urbano. La investigación se estructurará en tres subproyectos, centrados en (1) poesía y representación, (2) poesía y música, y (3) poesía y cultura visual. Un equipo interdisciplinario formado por académicos de los ámbitos de los estudios literarios, los estudios de medios y cine, los estudios interpretativos, los estudios acústicos, las ciencias del habla y los estudios de cultura visual, trabajará conjuntamente para documentar este campo.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
20148 Hamburg
Alemania