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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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The Railroad in American Poetry
… from the Transcendentalists to contemporary American poets. For many of the nineteenth-century poets, the image of the railroad expresses the promise and the danger of technology in modern industrial society, while the contemporary poets do not generally write poems “about” the railroad, but …
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Seamus Heaney and American Poetry
… to understand Heaney’s relationship with the American tradition by close attention to his intertextual relations with the US writers who influenced him, alongside a consideration of those he elides – and the reasons for such elision. The chapters that follow will show how the dominance of …
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… the question, ‘can we find Kindness in modernist American poetry?’ It is a work comprised primarily of detailed and extended close readings that will track Kindness through selections from the works of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Charles …
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Metaformal Trends in Contemporary American Poetry
… formal trends of the last thirty years in American poetry. Chapter One develops Stephen Cushman’s earlier consideration of metaformalism in the work of A. R. Ammons and situates the metaformal in the lineage of Charles Olson’s influential essay on “Projective Verse.” I connect Ammons to Lyn …
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The Lincoln tradition in American poetry
… of these tales have been in prose and some in poetry.|Of all the persons mentioned here is none who has been the subject of more fiction, biography, drama and poetry than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln has played a role that has endeared him to all humanity and has made him a popular subject for …
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The Influence of Music on American Poetry
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Poetry matters: Radical politics in postmodern American poetry
<p>Directly or indirectly, poetry produced in the postmodern era is implicated in the politics of the time. Postmodern American poetry, then, is not reducible to a single poetic mode or to a specific set of stylistic features. In other words, a more comprehensive understanding of postmodern …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
Amidst attempts to repoliticize American literary study, some recent scholars have set aside or pushed to the background questions of aesthetic quality in political poetry. But many poets active during the 1930's and 1940's saw political engagement and poetic accomplishment as mutually reinforcing. …
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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 Sensual Tapestry: Metaphor in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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The Metaphor of The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
The metaphor of the prairie reveals the paradoxical characteristics of a burgeoning democracy. In the metaphor the conventional ideals of freedom, hope, equality, future prosperity, and a leading place in world history are juxtaposed with destructive tendencies. As the white civilization encroaches …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… this dissertation addresses modern U.S. poetry's obsession with conjuring the unsayable. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the social and conceptual landscape that came to align the sayable with the cognitive and credible, while relegating alternative ways of knowing to the category of the …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
… how this impact has influenced modern trends in poetry. After an extensive background section documenting the impact the Holocaust and Second World War have made upon the literary imagination, an extensive review is conducted of the varied critical positions and criteria, both aesthetic and …
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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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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
… affinities and crucial distinctions between poetry and technology. Through their experiments in what I call "apparatus poetics," these poets denaturalize culturally embedded assumptions surrounding technology's "neutrality" and poetry's expressive "purity." They do so through procedural …
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