A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 100, , course: MA, language: English, abstract: This study aims at clarifying and defining the development of visual poetry movement through the term, postmodernism. Moreover, it tries to focus on the major features of postmodernism applied in some modern visual poems written or designed by contemporary and modern visual poets. These features are iconoclasm, groundlessness, formlessness, populism, intertextuality (pastiche), hyper reality, and techno-culture. Then, it moves to give a detailed account of the features of post-postmodernism in the genre, especially in Fluxes visual poems which are also known as performance poems.

PhD. of English language and literature. Teaching English Educational Diploma. Written Translation Program. E-A Teacher Program, U.S. Department of State. Translation diploma, Notting Hill College UK. Member of the Egyptian Translators and Linguists Association. Lecturer of children's literature, faculty of Early Education. Lecturer at faculty of Archeology and Languages, Matrouh University. Lecture at Science and Culture City, October 6th City. Lecturer at the Higher Institute for Specific Studies in Giza. Lecturer at the Higher Institute for Languages- Science and Culture City. Almadina institute for international languages (2016-18)- Giza.