CFP ACLA 2024 seminar: Poetic Language Now
Existing theoretical accounts of poetic language tend to prioritize (even while questioning) a binary of poetic v. ordinary. Theorists argue that poetic language disrupts the prevailing symbolic order characteristic of ordinary uses of language. At the same time, they acknowledge that ordinary language is often poetic, with devices like metaphor in use not just in poems but ”actualized in all domains of life.” Inversely, theorists, critics, and poets recognize that poetry uses language that is also, even stridently, ordinary.
Contemporary poetry—which circulates within an expanded range of material infrastructures, incorporates translingual and multimodal semiotics, and draws on emergent technological tools of inscription—introduces new complications into the binary of ordinary/poetic. For example, is poetry written in code ordinary because it partakes of a ubiquitous mode of digital communication, or does it reorient the very terms of this debate? Is multilingual poetry "peculiar" because it departs from monolingualism; is it "ordinary" because it represents a norm among a minoritised community of speakers; or might it exist in excess of such binaries? Is poetry that incorporates tree leaves just challenging the symbolic order, or is it (among other things) demanding a material and ecological account of what poetic language can be and do?
This seminar aims to posit new theoretical paradigms for encapsulating the multiplicity of poetic languages in use on the ground since 1970. We welcome papers that address expanded notions of poetic language from any geographical and (trans)linguistic context.
Submit abstracts here by 30 September 2023: https://www.acla.org/poetic-language-now
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