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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Hilda Doolittle"”.
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Matriarchal myth-making for a postpatriarchal age: The anti-war writing of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) lived and wrote during a period of political and ideological upheaval when the world wars, lesbian and gay, women's and psychoanalytic movements of their time challenged traditional assumptions about human nature and cultural values. …
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Discursive departures: A reading paradigm affiliated with feminist, lesbian, aesthetic and queer practices (with reference to Woolf, Stein and H.D.) (Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittle)
In her conclusion to Bodies That Matter Judith Butler posits that “if the power of discourse to produce that which it names is linked with the question of performativity, then the performative is one domain in which power acts as discourse" (225). In this thesis I will adopt theories of the …
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but also in terms of narrative strategy. These shifts are not only indicative of the …
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Mythic Metamorphosis: Re-shaping Identity in the Works of H.D.
… 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 wisdom,/ …
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Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson
… representation among those of Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Phyllis Webb, and P. K. Page. Chapter three, “Postmodern Relatives: Anne Carson’s Elusive Doubles,” theorizes her subversive use of the lyric in relation to Postmodernist epistemology, including an examination the work of her peers …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… previously by Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle. Additionally, my thesis moves to foreground and explore certain implications of A Curriculum of the Soul as a collaborative epic text and the greater modern / postmodern epoch conditions which fostered its creation.
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… previously by Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle. Additionally, my thesis moves to foreground and explore certain implications of A Curriculum of the Soul as a collaborative epic text and the greater modern / postmodern epoch conditions which fostered its creation.