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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Charles Olson"”.
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… thesis is concerned with the longform poetics of Charles Olson and of John Cage, and with the role indeterminacy plays in their constitution and reception. The work of these authors poses unusual and particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is …
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The Search for the Self-Existent in the Poetry of Charles Olson
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Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen
… The first section, ‘Museum Notes’, explores Charles Olson’s open field poetics by giving artists and writers a conversational voice. ‘Sound Fields’, the second section, responds to individual works of art and reflects a systems-based approach. The authorial voice within ‘Poems to the Sea’, …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke 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 …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke 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 …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
… William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson are all, in their own ways, disciples of the Ezra Pound model of the epic, which is embodied in his most important work, The Cantos. Each of these authors, though, looks back further than Pound alone, reconfiguring conventions dating …
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Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry
… or "open field" tradition in post-war America: Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, Susan Howe, and Myung Mi Kim. It considers the way these poets engage, via innovations in poetic form, with conceptions of the citizen and meanings of citizenship at different historical moments in the United …
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Catasterisms
… form, hybridized poetry and prose, and what Charles Olson refers to as projective verse. The essays use motifs like cell phone communication, star-gazing, and travel among many others to explore the ways in which individuals self-actualize through their relationships and their environment. …
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… autobiography into contact with the poetics of Charles Olson and William Carlos Williams. This allows me, in Chapter Three, to attend to the men’s display of homosexuality within their poetry, with reference to Jeanne Heuving’s work about queer desire in Robert Duncan’s poetry and Daniel Katz’s …
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The works of Cy Twombly : non-linear language and non-linear consciousness
… isomorphic education under the directorship of Charles Olson, for grounds of the artist's pre-postmodern interests. The education in the intellectual life of early Modernism, in particular Mallarméan and Poundian theory and practice, and the significance of early 20th century critical language …
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Écologie poétique-critique de l'économie de la connaissance ou comment inventer une ethnographie littéraire contre-éducative
… tirés des oeuvres de Jean-Marie Gleize et de Charles Olson, les pictographes Ojibwe et les travaux en contre-éducation des sociologues Stein et Miller nous aideront à reconstituer les conditions de possibilité du geste. Dès lors que l’on constate que les gestes résonnent et s’articulent dans …
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'Lyric realism' to 'Epic consciousness' : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn
… Comparisons are made with Frost and Thoreau, and Olson is introduced as Dorn's first and foremost major influence. The poet's dealing with 'otherness' is considered, as are the influence of Whitman and Blake among others, with the aim of placing Dorn in a literary sense, and showing how his poetry …
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Reading to Write: Olson's Melville
This thesis offers a new account of Charles Olson’s work on Herman Melville. The argument traces the role of Melville from Olson’s MA thesis and archival research to Call Me Ishmael, through to considerations of this scholarly activity in the making of his poetry. From the 1930s and 40s to the late …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… expressivity in the poetry and poetic theory of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, against the historical backdrop of the Free-Speech Movement and the rise of mass-culture. When poets frame nonliterary speech within the literary page, they encounter the …