Convergence:
Rhetoric, Poetics,
Performance,
and the Web
by
Myka Vielstimmig
Abstract
Originally a performance combining elements of reader's theatre with theoretical critique, this work both advocates and enacts a revisioning of written academic genres. Arguing that postmodern argument can involve linear exposition alongside verbal collage and that it can benefit from visual modes of thinking, the piece embeds works of art from the cubist period and later. In performance, these visuals were projected on a large screen behind the readers, as well as on computer screens around the room. Now rendered for webtext format, the work varies fonts, colors and margins to approximate the interplay of voices and visuals in the original live work. Links are provided to explanatory notes and other helpful apparatus.
This web was peer-reviewed by Kristine Blair and Lee Honeycutt of the Kairos Editorial Board.
