Media, celebrity, and personality from the beats to the New York school
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The history of mid-20th century American poetry should be understood alongside a history of personal recording media. Between the end of WWII and the late 1970s, three developments refashioned the relationship between the lyric poetic "speaker" and her implied listener: the invention of portable tape recorders in the late 40s; the increased affordability of photographic film through the 50s and 60s; and the advent of television and video recording through the 60s and 70s. As continuous self-recording became, for the first time in history, an option for ordinary people, new lyric modes emerged that registered the presence of recording machines—revealing their function as literal, guaranteed, or perfected audiences, even for relatively unknown and self-consciously unfamous poets. As they became cheaper and more powerful, personal recorders were recruited by more obscure writers to launder the social difference between ordinary and famous individuals—which is to say recording media have functioned as what we now call "social media" for at least a half century.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Winner, Kathryn M |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | McGurl, Mark, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | McGurl, Mark, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Greif, Mark, 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Saldívar, Ramón, 1949- |
| Degree committee member | Greif, Mark, 1975- |
| Degree committee member | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Degree committee member | Saldívar, Ramón, 1949- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kathryn Winner. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the English Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jy203fn7918 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Kathryn M Winner
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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