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A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry CommunitiesGifts

A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: Gifts [Burnett offers a new reading of poetry as gift, developing Lewis Hyde’s conception of creativity as gift. She presents the exchange of poetry within twentieth- and twenty-first-century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers as a gift economy. Focusing on innovative poetry that resists commodification, the chapter draws on ethnography to show how poetry communities share parallels with gift-giving tribal societies. Case studies from the USA and the UK, regions with advanced global capitalist economies, show how kinship alliances can facilitate poetry exchange through a different model than alienated gifts of charity. Grants, private donations, Marxism and personal sacrifice are considered. While such poetry is less reliant on a market economy, this may still offer rewards through cultural capital, fame and other material benefits.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry CommunitiesGifts

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
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978-3-319-62294-1
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1 –21
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10.1007/978-3-319-62295-8_1
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[Burnett offers a new reading of poetry as gift, developing Lewis Hyde’s conception of creativity as gift. She presents the exchange of poetry within twentieth- and twenty-first-century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers as a gift economy. Focusing on innovative poetry that resists commodification, the chapter draws on ethnography to show how poetry communities share parallels with gift-giving tribal societies. Case studies from the USA and the UK, regions with advanced global capitalist economies, show how kinship alliances can facilitate poetry exchange through a different model than alienated gifts of charity. Grants, private donations, Marxism and personal sacrifice are considered. While such poetry is less reliant on a market economy, this may still offer rewards through cultural capital, fame and other material benefits.]

Published: Sep 15, 2017

Keywords: Innovative Poetry; Verse Community; Poetry Center; giftGift; Gift Exchange

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