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Poetry in Motion

Comparing Materials and Media of Early Modern Short Literature
Jameson Kısmet Bell

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Challenging a book-centric approach, this work reveals how overlooked Early Modern short genres shaped knowledge and cultural exchange by tracing their circulation across diverse materials like metal, paper, and stone in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.

This book presents Early Modern short literary genres—adages, aphorisms, emblems, epigrams, maxims, and proverbs—as they circulated across diverse materials such as metal, paper, stone, wood,…
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This book presents Early Modern short literary genres—adages, aphorisms, emblems, epigrams, maxims, and proverbs—as they circulated across diverse materials such as metal, paper, stone, wood, and many more. By challenging a book-centric approach to traditional literary studies, this work applies theories and methods from sociology, media archaeology, and comparative literature to reveal how these mobile, material genres shaped knowledge transmission and cultural exchange.
By tracing the shifting materials, locations, and meanings of short genres in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, this book uncovers the overlooked significance of short genres in literary and intellectual history. It highlights the importance of media-specific analysis to encourage the addition of short genres to university curricula.
This book will be essential reading for scholars of literary studies, comparative literature, media theory, and cultural history, demonstrating the continued relevance and transformation of short genres from the Renaissance to the digital age.

Jameson Kısmet Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he previously chaired the Critical and Cultural Studies MA Program (2018–2023). His interdisciplinary research spans comparative literature, media studies, and the history of medicine, with a focus on short literary forms, urban space, and material culture in medieval, early modern, and contemporary contexts. Recent projects include a funded study, “Literature is Everywhere: A Comparative Field Guide to Urban Literary Landscapes in Three Cities: Istanbul, Chicago, Berlin” (2023–2026). His publications explore topics such as the materiality of short literature, the interplay between literature and medicine, and the materials of public literary expression.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6242-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6242-0
  • Date of Publication: 2025-12-04

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6243-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6243-7
  • Date of Publication: 2025-12-04

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: JFD, D, DSBD
  • BISAC: LIT019000, LIT020000, LIT006000, HIS037020, HIS054000, HIS037090
  • THEMA: JBCT, D, DSBC, DSBD, DSB
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