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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Adrienne"”.
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American Journey Toward Female Equality with and Through Adrienne Rich's Works
… to the 1990's through the realm of the works of Adrienne Rich, American female poet. Rich's progression as a political feminist poet becomes a microcosm of the overall female journey toward equality. This piece also explores endeavors made by others that parallel Rich's venture. Through this …
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… Alice books, by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton. Influenced by the cultural fixation on the child and the increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, …
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"All violence is not equal"; Adrienne Rich's Post-9/11 Poetry and the Precarious Life
… the most influential poets of the last century, Adrienne Rich produced a remarkable body of work during the span of her sixty-year career. As her career progressed, she became increasingly concerned with the intersections between public and private spheres. Consequently, Rich's late twentieth and …
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Discoverers of the Not-Known: Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich
… Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich not only express that wish but break new poetic ground as they turn away from the forms and subject matter of their brother artists and show what it means to be a women as well as an artist. They are, in the words of H.D., "voyagers, …
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"""A house of difference"": Constructions of the lesbian poet in Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen"
… and lesbians, the poets I read--Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen--are accorded very different literary status. In examining the processes, literary and cultural, that place them as poets, my dissertation contends that literary recognition, whether from feminist critics or …
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… distinctive from his modernist counterparts and Adrienne Rich, who initiated her revolution through a feminist poetics, which she later located within emergent nationalism. The poetic revolutions of these predecessors contributed to the upsurge of emergent poetries and poets in the 1980s and …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne Rich, among others, are poets credited with both inspiration and particular craft elements and styles of writing included in the project. The final sections of original poems are informed by not only the poet’s but other shared stories of …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… Peircian semiotics. Tony Hoagland, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous provide textual examples of an evolving aesthetic in which the poet's self and world comprise multiple dynamic, open relationships supplanting one in which simple correspondences between …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… writings of Michael Foucault, Judith Butlter, Adrienne Rich, Eve K. Sedgewich, and Simone de Beauvoir are vital in understanding how a straight woman journeys onto the lesbian continuum as a revolt against gender roles (defined by Butler and Beauvoir) and as a result of her friendship with …
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The Face You Draw into Your Skin Is Not Your Own
… and critical guidance provided in the works of Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, Brenda Hillman, Rita Dove, Martin Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Khaled Mattawa, Anne Waldman, Alice Walker and Frank X. Walker, Czeslaw Milosz, and Marc Yakich. </p>
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Self-Referential Anxiety in the Romantic and Modern Long Poem
… Prelude, William Carlos Williams' Paterson, and Adrienne Rich's "From an Old House in America" and Sources, though much the same anxiety can be seen in long poems by such diverse poets as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. In …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
… Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, and Julia Kristeva, I argue that ruins underscore the arbitrariness—and, thus, the fragility—of …
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They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
… to be more inclusive of gender identity. Adrienne Rich's theory of compulsory heterosexuality provides the best explanation for why queerbaiting happens and can offer new ways to analyze these texts to uncover queerbaiting when it occurs.
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Procedure
… cross-section of poetry and performance, such as Adrienne Kennedy and Sophie Calle. My critical apparatus explores connections between Kennedy and Calle’s work, particularly their use of intratextual repetition. This use of repetition, read in the context of Michelle Wright’s definition of …
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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return
… as a tool, an emergent strategy, a phrase by Adrienne Marie Brown, in order to weave personal practices with collective organizing. This living archive can build an intimate political and social space to share Palestinian histories, an ostensible bridge between theory, narrative, and praxis. I …
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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
… between Gloria Anzaldya's <i>Borderlands</i>, Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and Judith Butler's <i>Gender Trouble</i>. Together these three writers' theories offer a working definition of hybridity as a move or a strategy that seeks to create habitable …
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