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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"H.D."”.
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
The literary works of Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D. share an interest in the crossovers between human, ideological, and cultural reproduction during the interwar years. However, an extended study on their contrasting views about life and art in the aftermath of World War One is yet to …
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Mythic Metamorphosis: Re-shaping Identity in the Works of H.D.
In section fifteen of the poem The Walls Do Not Fall author Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) address her audience and articulates the purpose of the poet in the following lines: "we are the keepers of the secret,/ the carriers, the spinners/ of the rare intangible thread/ that binds all humanity/ to ancient …
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A genre revised in the epic poetry of H.D. and Gwendolyn Brooks
In the canon of twentieth century American poetry, "long poems" or "anti-epics" or epic poems represent a formidable genre. Defining epic poetry has proved difficult in our modern era, and the possibility that women might write epics is not often considered. This study includes a review of the …
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In Quest of Wisdom: Louise Rosenblatt, H.D., and the Transactional Literary Experience
his thesis theorises the relationship between the transactional literary experience and the experience of being in quest of wisdom in literary studies. It achieves this by constructing a dialogue between two thinkers deeply concerned with aesthetic experience and personalist modes of learning: the …
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Alchemical Transformation and the Grief-Threshold in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
<p>In H.D's lyric epic, <em>Helen in Egypt</em>, Helen of Troy experiences a phenomenological transformation in the brazier of the heart, which burns both on the beach of her new home in Egypt and in the depths of her psychic life. I have envisioned a process by which Helen psychologically enters …
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War and Witness in the Poetry of H.D., Denise Levertov, and Carolyn Forche
In my thesis, I focus on the role of the twentieth century female poet in writing about war, looking closely at three poets: H.D., Denise Levertov, and Carolyn Forche. By examining poets from three different points within the century, I question the ways in which the reactions towards these poets …
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Transnational women’s poetry of the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D., Sheila Wingfield
This thesis traces symmetries in the poetic responses of four women poets across two continents to the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D. and Sheila Wingfield. This thesis considers the representation of the events and experiences of the two world wars in the work of four women poets: …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
The focus of this dissertation is the exploration of mermaid images in the texts of Virginia Woolf and H.D. The mermaid is a hybrid figure, her space liminal. In her ambiguity she cannot be encompassed within the rigid categories of a world defined by binaries. Her position as an outsider to the …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
This dissertation examines narrative representations of female non-combatant identity authored by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. between 1916 and 1955, a historical moment consonant with World War I, the interwar era, World War II, and its aftermath. Their depictions of the …
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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
"Apparatus Poetica" considers how four poets in the late modernist tradition reconceive the potentials of poetic language in order to address the question of advanced technology. Outlining challenges posed to language by communications industries, information theory, computation, and the threat of …
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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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Writing the self: feminist experiment and cultural identity
<p>This dissertation examines how twentieth-century experimental women writers construct non/narrative texts whose text-subjects mediate identity and call for increased possibilities for subject-identification in the world. The use of innovative formal strategies and experiment with narrative, …
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Discoverers of the Not-Known: Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich
In our culture men have traditionally been presented as the adventurers, the discoverers; all we need do is look at the prototypic adventurer, Ulysses, who sailed the seas and waged battles while Penelope stayed home weaving. What happens, though, when women want to be discoverers? Louise Bogan, …
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Table of the Sun
<p>My creative thesis is a 48-page collection of poems titled Table of the Sun. Each poem is an intimate interrogation of varied ecological, romantic, and/or political disasters ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline, cruel love, and Donald Trump. Some poems are reckonings, and others work to heal …
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Other: Poems
<p>This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled <em>Other</em>. The poems in <em>Other</em> reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular …
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Rules of Engagement: Modernism's Impersonal Interior
"This study begins by elaborating what I understand to be the ethical paradox impersonality poses, particularly in the dissolution of individuality it supports. As shown in Wyndham Lewis' command that we impersonally ""substitute ourselves everywhere for the animal world,"" the potential …
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