Poetry without Poets
What if the poetic has left the poem in the same way that Elvis has left the building? Long after the limo pulled away, the audience was still in the arena, screaming for more. Even after his death,especiallyafter his death, Elvis is sighted, replicated, and imitated all the time, but in radically d...
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Zusammenfassung: | What if the poetic has left the poem in the same way that Elvis has left the building?
Long after the limo pulled away, the audience was still in the arena, screaming for more. Even after his death,especiallyafter his death, Elvis is sighted, replicated, and imitated all the time, but in radically different contexts. If anything, his death was really the beginning of a wild proliferation and circulation of Elvisness beyond the domain of popular music. In that process, though, the form and meaning of Elvisness changed (and continues to change) dramatically, adapting to and eliciting new kinds |
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DOI: | 10.3138/9781442621015-020 |