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Publication Date: 2022
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Postdigital Stylistics: Creative Multimodal Interpretation of Poetry and Internet Mashups
O'Halloran, Kieran
English in Education, v56 n1 p73-90 2022
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.
Descriptors: Poetry, Creativity, Multimedia Materials, Video Technology, Language Styles, Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Literary Genres, Computer Software, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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