Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation in the nineteenth-century United StatesFills a gap in the scholarship of nineteenth-century poetry by critically engaging the paratext as an aesthetic design and practiceReveals m...

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1. Verfasser:	Bonifacio, Ayendy (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
Schlagworte:	Literary Studies LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism Latin American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism Spanish American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
Online-Zugang:	DE-Aug4 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation in the nineteenth-century United StatesFills a gap in the scholarship of nineteenth-century poetry by critically engaging the paratext as an aesthetic design and practiceReveals more clearly and immediately that nineteenth-century newspaper poems were not self-enclosed aesthetic objects separate from public life. Many of these verses were not simply read but also memorized and "ed, reworked and imitated, collected, scrapbooked, anthologized, edited, and exchanged within and outside of complex paratextual spaces in tune with the readerly needs of consumersRaises important and difficult questions about how readers engaged newspaper poems, and particularly, how they understood poetic speakersDrawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855-1901 argues that nineteenth-century newspaper poems are inherently paratextual. The paratextual situation of many newspaper poems (their links to surrounding textual items and discourses), their editorialisation through circulation (the way poems were altered from newspaper to newspaper) and their association and disassociation with certain celebrity bylines, editors and newspaper titles enabled contemporaneous poetic value and taste that, in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, were not only sentimental, Romantic and/or genteel. In addition to these important categories for determining a good and bad poem, poetic taste and value were determined, Bonifacio argues, via arbitrary consequences of circulation, paratextualisation, typesetter error and editorial convenience
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) 19 black and white illustrations
ISBN:	9781399523516
DOI:	10.1515/9781399523516