Overview

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics sheds new light on how we see repetition today by proposing a multi-faced exploration of the material and medial expressiveness of repetition in contemporary poetry. This collection brings together scholars from across different disciplines to analyse transformative repetitions in works of experimental, concrete, conceptual, digital and post-digital poetry. Linking contemporary poetics to their historical antecedents in the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, Transformative Repetition pays special attention to the expanded media boundaries that define literary practices in the twenty-first century. As such, it draws on an expanded notion of poetry to examine how repetition shapes different textual modalities in various media while challenging the traditional divides between repetition and variation, creation and replication, difference and sameness. Attentive to the relationship between form and aesthetic politics, the chapters in this volume also highlight the cultural, social and political implications of repetition.

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Author:   Bruno Daniel Ministro dos Santos (Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399551533

ISBN 10:   1399551531
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Repetitive Thoughts, Global Avant-Gardes Bruno Ministro Part I – Repetition and Experimental Poetry (From the Past) 1. Deep Reading Minimal Texts: Prayers and Elegies in Off-Off Artifacts Rui Torres 2. Broken Repetition: Difference and Its Iteration in Hansjörg Mayer’s Early Titles Bronaċ Ferran 3. “You Also Means Me”. Repetition as Creation and Deconstruction of the Self: The Case of Ketty La Rocca Marzia D’Amico 4. The Zukofskys’ Catullus as Phenomenal Repetition Rebecca Kosick Part II – Repetition and Contemporary Poetry (Of the Present) 5. Structures in Movement: Repeating Ulises Carrión in the 21st Century Olivia Lott 6. Repetition in African American Poetry: From the Spirituals to Douglas Kearney Lauri Scheyer 7. “Bound by the Contrary of Ceaseless Repetition”: Form and the Hold of Perseveration in Maria Cyranowicz’s deepression Archive Małgorzata Myk 8. Expanded Elegy in Victoria Chang’s Obit Julie Phillips Brown Part III – Repetition and Post-Digital Artistic Research (For the Future) 9. The Equilexical Sonnet: Insights from Study and Poetic Practice Nick Montfort 10. Serial Writing Felipe Cussen 11. It’s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing J. R. Carpenter Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

Repetition is intrinsic to poetry from its origins into the present, but as this remarkable anthology demonstrates, repetition is always – paradoxically – variation. The authors address changed technical and conceptual conditions for poetic production in a wide range of historical and contemporary works that use repetition as a springboard for imagination. -- Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles

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Bruno Ministro is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Porto.

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