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.
Expanding Authorship
Transformations in American Poetry since 1950
Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author.
- Copyright year: 2021
Distant Reading
Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
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
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined.
- Copyright year: 1999