Peter Middleton
Peter Middleton is an emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. He is the author and editor of several books, including Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold Warand After and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry.
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The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Edited by Peter Quartermain and Rachel Blau DuPlessis
University of Alabama Press
Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined.
- Copyright year: 1999
Distant Reading
Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
University of Alabama Press
Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.
- Copyright year: 2005
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