Poetry of visual enactment: the concrete poem

Bollobás, Enikő

doi:10.1080/02666286.1986.10435350

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“…Figure 2 presents another translation version of the report, relying primarily on visual representations. Playing with visual figures thus becomes a distinctive feature of this translation, akin to a concrete poem (Bollobâs, 1986).…”

Section: The Playfulness Of Web 20-enabled Translationmentioning

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Online Translation-as-Activism against Censorship: The Case of Translating The Whistle Giver

Tian

2023

IJCETI

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This research addresses the under-explored role of translation as a form of activism in China, particularly in the context of online platforms. While online activism in China has garnered significant attention, the specific role of translation as a transformative practice has received limited scholarly focus. This study examines the translation campaign surrounding The Whistle Giver, a censored article pertaining to COVID-19, which involved a collaborative effort by non-professional translators who strategically rendered the original text into various unreadable forms. By employing translation as a tool of metramorphosis, these translators challenged the dominance of official discourse and asserted their individual agency in shaping public narratives. This case study demonstrates the potential of Web 2.0-enabled translation as a means of combating censorship and fostering grassroots ideological struggles. Web 2.0 platforms play a pivotal role in facilitating the collaborative nature of this translation campaign, allowing for the dissemination and sharing of the transformed texts. The interactive and participatory features of Web 2.0 platforms provide fertile ground for the emergence of a playful and ritualistic dimension to the translation process. By harnessing the power of Web 2.0-enabled translation, activists forge a collective identity, challenging any existing power structures and fostering collective memories. This form of activism transcends traditional boundaries, utilizing translation as a transformative practice to shape public discourse and effect social and political change. The study sheds light on the crucial role of non-professional translators, the transformative potential of translation as a tool for resistance, and the impact of Web 2.0 platforms in facilitating collaborative and participatory practices.

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Section: The Playfulness Of Web 20-enabled Translationmentioning

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Online Translation-as-Activism against Censorship: The Case of Translating The Whistle Giver

Tian

2023

IJCETI

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“…These were his words, “Social work opposed to teaching, I don’t mind it, it would be hard to do both at the same time.” In an embodied response to the visual images his statement evoked I allowed the words and letters migrate across the page. As Bollobás (1986) writes, “The poet’s job is not to master or control language (and force it into linear progression), but to participate in this performance where spatial configurations are born” (p. 285). This concrete poem was the result:…”

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“…My concrete found poetry began as “mimetic visual poems” (Perloff, 2014, p. 290). That is, the shape of the poem is immanent to its meaning (Bollobás, 1986). The typographical shaping of the words on the page almost insists its meaning upon the reader.…”

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Can Concrete Poems Fly? Setting Data Free in a Performance of Visual Enactment

Schoone

2019

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In researching the tutors working in alternative education centers in New Zealand, I sought ways to bring voice to their lived experiences through, initially, creating found poetry from interview transcripts. The poems helped bring their vital voices to the page. Even so, I found the emotion of tutors’ lived experiences buckled under the pressure of their compression into lines of poetry. Thus, I set the found words free to form nonlinear configurations in two and three dimensions. In the tradition of concrete poetry noted by Khlebnikov, I “loosed the shackles of syntax . . . to attach meaning to words according to their graphic and phonic characteristics.” In this article, I present concrete poetry deriving from my poetic inquiry and reflect on the value concrete poetry provides arts-based researchers.

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“…Contrary to the sequentiality (and hence, linearity) of writing in conventional poetry, words arrange in a non-sequential way on the page so as to form visually various shapes (e.g., sphere, spirals, birds, flowers), with which the meaning of the poem is associated (Bohn, 2011;Bollobás,1986;Gross, 1997). Thus, concrete poetry is primarily meant to be seen (Bohn, 2011), through performance, enactment, and presentation, since the poems happen not on the page only, but orally and physically, in various environments (Bollobás, 1986;Erber, 2012;Mcallister, 2014;Schmidt, 1982). Due to these characteristics, there is some correspondence to the orality and the visual-kinesthetic iconicity of SLs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Concrete poetry for the sign language classroom

Mertzani¹

2020

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Concrete poetry creates meaning by relying primarily on visual iconicity likewise sign languages (SLs). As they are visual-gestural languages, their modality allows a more transparent relation between the form of the sign and its meaning. Due to this common characteristic, the paper introduces the construction of SL literary material on the basis of the visual stimuli (mainly written) of concrete poetry. In this process, both languages (written and signed) are equal, since the reconstruction of the original text requires the close reading of their grammar and literary traditions.

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Poetry of visual enactment: the concrete poem

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Online Translation-as-Activism against Censorship: The Case of Translating The Whistle Giver

Online Translation-as-Activism against Censorship: The Case of Translating The Whistle Giver

Can Concrete Poems Fly? Setting Data Free in a Performance of Visual Enactment

Concrete poetry for the sign language classroom

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