Reading the lockdown: responding to covid poetry

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1080/08893675.2022.2155078

Marcello Giovanelli

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT During 2020, sales of books increased as readers found more time to engage with fiction and return to books that provided comfort and a sense of escapism. The Covid-19 pandemic also provided the space for a new genre, “covid fiction”, to emerge. This article examines the sub-genre of “covid poetry” by integrating text and reader response data analysis to examine the representation of the pandemic experience in Michele Witthaus’ poem “The new shape of fear”. Analysis of the data reveals that participants interpret and discuss the poem by drawing on foregrounded language features in the text, reflecting on their own pandemic experiences and demonstrating empathy with the experiences of others. These findings demonstrate that covid poetry may have particular interpretative effects that are geared towards self- and other-understanding. Overall, the article sets out some first steps towards examining the stylistic characteristics and interpretative effects of this emerging and important genre.

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阅读封锁:应对covid诗歌

在2020年，随着读者有更多的时间参与小说，并回到那些提供舒适和逃避现实感的书籍中，图书销量有所增长。covid -19大流行还为“covid - fiction”这一新类型的出现提供了空间。本文通过整合文本和读者反应数据分析来研究“covid诗歌”的子体裁，以考察米歇尔·威特豪斯(Michele Witthaus)的诗歌《恐惧的新形态》(the new shape of fear)中对疫情经历的表现。对数据的分析表明，参与者通过利用文本中突出的语言特征，反思自己的大流行经历，并对他人的经历表示同情，来解释和讨论这首诗。这些发现表明，covid - 19诗歌可能具有特定的解释性作用，有利于自我和他人的理解。总的来说，本文为研究这一新兴而重要的体裁的风格特征和解释效果迈出了一些初步的步骤。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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