Werbiwokowizualny performance? O otwieraniu Cage’a według Edwina Morgana
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The paper will attempt an analysis of Edwin Morgan’s concrete poem Opening the Cage:
14 Variations on 14 Words as an example of the intermedial text. By writing through
John Cage’s conceptual poetry, Morgan constructs a “verbivocovisual” poem that works
both on a visual plane and in verbal performance. It is this fusion and interaction of different
medial processes and procedures that makes Opening the Cage: 14 Variations on
14 Words so challenging from the cognitive point of view.
The paper will address: a) the way the constructivist scheme produces its own meanings,
but also brings out the material aspect of the word, its plasticity; b) the incessant
game of (r)(d)econstruction of meaning; c) the poem’s exploration of the half-way house
between concrete and linear poetry, the so-called Morgan’s „third language”.
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