디지털 미디어 기술을 통한 아방가르드 영시의 텍스트 확장 가능성

A Study on the Extended Text of Avant-Garde Poetry through Digital Media Technology

Digital media made the Gutenberg print culture move towards a culture based on a totally different paradigm. As a result, electronic writing has become the field of possibilities to embody the various attempts of poststructuralist literary theories, which have tried to deconstruct the homogeneity based on the Western rationalism. These new conditions of text made us recognize the analogy between the poetics of innovative poetry in the twentieth century and digital works in the twenty-first-century media. With this radical change of textual conditions in mind, a pilot project was set up to make a digital text of Williams’s print poem, “The Great Figure,” and Demuth’s poster portrait, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, through an interdisciplinary study of English and Media engineering. This was planned to be a multimedia text combining word, image, and sound and enhance the understanding of intertextuality between the poem and the painting, by exploring the structure of each text with the aid of digital media. It is expected that the digital version of William’s print poem will enable us to experience the innovative message of the poem and contribute to the extension of textuality from the static presentation of an “object” to the dynamic performance of an “event.”