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The Use of Evolutionary Theory by American Poets: 1900-1950
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… a sense of two-ness born of being both black and American. The fundamental structure of the sonnet (octave, volta, sestet) is dialectical; it "contests the idea it just introduced" (Caplan, Poetic Form: An Introduction 75). The sonnet's self-reflexive structure has been adopted and adapted by …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
<p>This dissertation examines how modern American poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new …
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Delilah Returns Home
… the reductionist labels which many contemporary American poets and critics use to teach and conceive of poetry. I found that poems move easily between such binaries and are often comprised of a blend of these seemingly exclusive elements.
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The Good Darkness: Affirmation in the Poems of Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, and James Wright
… W. S. Merwin, and James Wright are Post-Modern American poets who share aesthetic, moral, and political concerns. All show a desire for an affirmative vision as well as a sense of how to arrive at it. Rather than extol the traditionally affirmative resonances of lofty mountains, starry skies, …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
… dissertation argues that post-Holocaust, Jewish American poets help us reconsider the boundaries of “human” and “animal” in the American imagination, ultimately creating an animal poetics that flips the script, demonstrating that yes, we are all animals, which demands not only a human commitment …
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The rule of contraction: a manuscript of sequential prose poems with an introduction
… tradition, and later adopted by British and American poets. Questions as to genre arise when critically assessing possible formulaic divisions demonstrated by various techniques and tropes within fiction and poetry. The creative portion of this thesis consists of the complete manuscript of …
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DOS ETAPAS EN LA POESIA DE MARIO BENEDETTI. (SPANISH TEXT) (URUGUAY)
… the common man. A large group of important Latin American poets began to create poetry which uses the colloquial language with the intention of bringing together poetry, life and history. This thesis provides the background to Mario Benedetti, the man and the poet, together with a short survey of …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
… replaced by a younger generation of ""trench"" poets who opened their voice to the corpse, allowing it to speak its strange truth in an imagistic and onomatopoeic language through them. The WWII poets developed this corpse voice around an absent but symbolically resonant corpse, which reflected …
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… be dismissed. My analysis begins with Asian American poets who I see as challenging the different forms that racism takes across more than a century of Asian American writing. But I go on to suggest that the form these critiques take connect them to the work of American poets who outside of …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… to the category of the unsayable. For various American poets, non-cognitive modes of knowing---in the form of intuitions and gut instincts---are given a palpable resonance in the articulation of experiences of race, gender, nation, class, and sexuality in the early 20th century. Chapter 3 …
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… relationship in letters between two post-war American poets, Jonathan Williams and Ronald Johnson. Attached to the thesis is an appendix: the first major edition of 217 of the letters, prepared with footnotes and a gloss. Through analysis of the letters, I argue that Williams and Johnson’s …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… Randall, Gwendolyn Brooks, and younger African American poets of the 1960s and 70s--and the antiwar movement--including work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and W. S. Merwin--peotry broadsides function as specific material interventions in social and political struggles. A section on …
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A Foreign Mirror: Intertexts with Surrealism in Twentieth-Century U. S. Poetries
… half of the twentieth-century, fewer U. S. poets translated foreign poetry than their modernist predecessors. The scope of their translation projects correspondingly narrowed. Gone, for example, were projects like Ezra Pound's reaching back to thirteenth-century Italy to see how U. S. poets …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
… criteria, both aesthetic and ethical, from which American literary responses have been evaluated. Among the major critical positions is the belief that there should be no literary response to the Holocaust; that this literary response must primarily serve to document and testify; that the …
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Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen
… Cole Swensen: This thesis explores three American poets from successive generations to examine three related types of engagement with visual art. As literary models that have informed my own poetic practice, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Cole Swensen have theorized their own writing …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the project to find something of a conclusive end or, perhaps, a new beginning. Prior to drafting his curious “plan” for a soul’s curriculum, Olson …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the project to find something of a conclusive end or, perhaps, a new beginning. Prior to drafting his curious “plan” for a soul’s curriculum, Olson …
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The Railroad in American Poetry
… reflective and introspective. For over 150 years poets have used railroad imagery in an attempt to enter into the universal experience of trains. This thesis will examine the remarkably strong hold the railroad image has had on the consciousness of poets, ranging from the Transcendentalists to …
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