Irina Markina

Bio

Irina Markina is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. Her current book project, supported by Phi Beta Kappa, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, is an interdisciplinary cultural study that analyzes the largely overlooked public mural art campaign of the French Third Republic.

Contributions

For the Record: Voice and Orality in Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Lettre-Océan”

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The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was for the record. Between 1913 and 1914, he wrote repeatedly about the impact of recording technology on lyric poetry. Like a number of fellow poets, Apollinaire believed that within one to two centuries the record would replace the book as the preferred method for the dissemination of poetic texts. [1] However, for Apollinaire, the gramophone was not merely exterior or tangential to the poetic enterprise, a stance adopted by many Symbolist poets who nevertheless...

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sound poetry