Epic Encounters: The Modernist Long Poem Goes to the Movies

作者: Bryant

DOI: 10.2979/JMODELITE.37.4.70

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摘要: Most discussions of modern poetry and cinema center on lyric the avant-garde, but historical epic film offers rich possibilities for teaching modernist long poem. Historical takes us beyond montage other editing techniques to DNA poem — a more is aesthetic that compiles allusions expands scope. This essay draws Vivian Sobchack’s poetics genre Franco Moretti’s analysis literary identify four tendencies in American poems: urban ( The Waste Land ), everyday Book Dead, Paterson romance Helen Egypt diasporic Omeros ). In addition cross-media comparisons, includes movie posters undergraduate students made these poems.