Assemblages of enunciation: a rhizopoetic analysis of contemporary Australian electronic poetry

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This thesis provides a model for reading and analysing digital poetry through the application of principles derived from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the rhizome. Drawing on the model provided in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus, I focus on the key properties of rhizomatic systems that can he identified both in poetic forms and in digital information, and offer both a theoretical foundation for a model of rhizomatic analysis and a number of case studies in which this approach is applied. By establishing clear connections between rhizomatic structures and the characteristics of poetic Language and electronic data, this thesis provides an investigation of some possible applications of a literary rhizoanalysis and the establishment of 'rhizopoetics', which encompasses both rhizomatic creative texts and critical works that, themselves, become rhizomatic through the process of analysis, The first half of the thesis is focused on establishing the general foundatio

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