Muriel Rukeyser’s “Campaign” and the Spectacular Documentary Poetics of the Whistle Stop Tour

This article examines how documentary poetics—particularly as employed by Muriel Rukeyser—use a montage of images to form a visual landscape. This visual landscape is wielded effectively by politicians during the Whistle Stop Tour electioneering. In Rukeyser’s “Campaign”, one section in her long-for...

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Main Author: Michael Anthony Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/6/157