Postdigital stylistics: creative multimodal interpretation of poetry and internet mashups

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic analysis style in language, particularly literary style. Poetry has been staple stylistics. Creative performance poems and stylistic analysis, however, have rarely bedfellows. I showcase stylistics pedagogy for creatively interpreting poetry higher education where students make digitally multimodal storied interpretations poems. The reflects contemporary internet mashup culture, recognising that inhabit “postdigital” world commonplace software resources offer opportunities DIY juxtaposition audio video different purposes – artistic, comedic, etc. An advantage such Postdigital it integrates performance-based readers, marginalised exegetical reading practices associated print. illustrate student Charles Bukowski’s poem “the bluebird”, accessible its foregrounded style, explanation how this crucially motivates shot design.