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1 Looking at / looking through The rhetoric of poetry Ronald Soetaert Kris Rutten

2 The rhetorical and narrative turn Explorations in education

3 Why not use literary works to help us teach sociology, psychology, pedagogy, even (or especially) history? Why do we go on thinking that the reality of fiction is more suspect and illusionary than the fiction of reality? Bruner, 2005, p. 63

4 Narrative turn Bruner Growing interest in narratives Narrative as a mode of knowing Art as a mode of knowing

5 Narrative turn Bruner Mode of knowing Bruner & What can we learn? Burke How do we study?

6 Narrative turn Bruner Mode of knowing Bruner & Burke Rhetorical turn Burke Symbol-making Symbol-using Symbol-misusing

7 Narrative turn Bruner Mode of knowing Bruner & Burke Rhetorical turn Burke Symbol-making Symbol-using Symbol-misusing Literature & drama

8 Art forms like tragedy or comedy or satire can be described as equipment for living that size up situations in various ways and refer to corresponding attitudes. Burke, 1973, p. 293

9 Relation Between language & the world = How we stand in the world Art as research of the symbols/ language with which we create the world

10 Marshall McLuhan's aphorism The Medium is the Message The Medium is the Massage Symbol-wise (Media-wise)

11 At / Trough The textual surface has become permanently bi-stable. We are always looking first AT it and then THROUGH it. (Lanham) Digital Screen

12 The Electronic Word

13 The Economcis of Attention

14 Attention Artists? Of course, they have always instructed us in how to pay attention to the world. (Richard Lanham)

17 Paul De Vree

18 Reflection/ selection/ deflection Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality. (Kenneth Burke)

19 Reflection/ selection/ deflection the ways in which the visual functions rhetorically the broader question of how and why the rhetorical turn has become so thoroughly visual

20 The treachery of images

21 The treachery of images foregrounds and problematizes the way that we attribute significance to images the complicated relationship between the verbal and the visual

22 The treachery of images The image of the pipe + that sentence share a dialectical relationship each comments on the other

23 Is Magritte offers us the image of the pipe, then tells us that it's not a pipe. This seems to be a case when it really does matter what the meaning of is is.

24 CECI THIS Magritte uses the pronoun ceci ( this ) to point to the image, but it might just as easily be understood to be referring to the word pipe or even to the assertion itself as a performative act.

25 Herman De Vries

26 Markus Raetz

40 CECI THIS To understand Ceci n'est pas une pipe, we need to break down the conformities and established rules that we take for granted in the way that we think.

41 Fred Eerdekens In this modern age, Eerdekens is taking Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" to a whole new level.

42 What is a word? What is an image? What is the image/text? How do we read something like this?

43 Fred Eerdekens

44 Fred Eerdekens

45 Fred Eerdekens

46 Eerdekens: God & Ego

47 Concrete poems continued the typographic experimentation begun by the Futurists, requiring readers to look both AT and THROUGH language simultaneously.

48 Concrete poetry.. deals with the relation between the visible form and the intellectual substance of words. It is visual... because it adds the optical gesture of the word to its semantic meaning. (Simanowski)

49 Paul Van Ostayen

50 Eugen Gomringer schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen schweigen

51 The silent space in the third line is the crux of the poem because, strictly speaking, silence can only be articulated by the absence of any words.

52 McCaffery: Carnival

53 Steve McCaffery To see the letter not as a phoneme but as ink, and to further insist on that materiality, inevitably contests the status of language as a bearer of uncontaminated meaning(s).

54 Stiftpoëzie Maarten Inghels, Tumult Dimitri Antonissen, Schrap Me Stiftgedicht at Blogs, Afbeeldingen, en veel meer op WordPress /

55 Austin Kleon, Newspaper Blackout

56 Applied Literature

57 Applied Literature

58 Ivanka Beton is a Hungarian concrete artist and designer whose Hübler Applied Literature project struck a chord. The series will be exhibited at Hidden Heroes 2010 this week in Milan.

59 Today there are thousands of possibilities to download literature in a digital form. Nevertheless I regard the book first of all as an object. My goal is to visualize my memories that are purely connected with these objects. I researched the identity of my own books without dealing with their content, but rather focusing on their history and my relation to the objects themselves. All these memories are fixed in a bookshelf that is adapted by a personal collection of literature.

61 Klaus Sherübel: The Book Mallarmé

62 Sophie Calle

64 Helicopter Perspectief

65 Looking at / looking through The rhetoric of poetry Art as equipment for living Look at & through

Making Digital Poetry: Writing with and through Spaces

DOI 10.1515/jlt-2012-0002 JLT 2012; 6(2): 337 357 Mirona Magearu Making Digital Poetry: Writing with and through Spaces Abstract: This article extends work on notions of space developed by media and poetry