Poetic Constellations and Intermedia Collaborations: The Case of Vniverse

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_8

Keywords:

intermedia poetry, database aesthetics, poetic system, machine reader, feedback loop, experimental book format

Abstract

Vniverse is an intermedia project that was first conceived in 2002 as a print book with two electronic components online. However, in 2014, Stephanie Strickland revised Vniverse and published a new version of the book and an electronic application for iPad exclusively. In its entirety, Vniverse invites the readers to read and form constellations by exploring the electronic component’s night sky, and to go back to the book where they can read the poems differently. In this work, database and narrative structures are combined, the one revealing the limits of the other as well as the potent hybrids they are capable of creating.

 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_8

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Author Biography

Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Lizzy Pournara holds a PhD in American Literature  with a dissertation titled  Experimental Poetics and Materialities in the Works of Susan Howe, Stephanie Strickland, and Caitlin Fisher (2018). She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also holds a BA in English Literature and Language (2011) and an MA in English Literature (2013). Her research interests focus on contemporary American poetry, multimodality, artists’ books, digital literature, book-making and creative writing.

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Published

2019-11-17

How to Cite

Pournara, Lizzy. 2019. “Poetic Constellations and Intermedia Collaborations: The Case of Vniverse”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 7 (1):133-51. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_8.

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): Experimental Poetry Networks: Material Circulations

Section

Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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