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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Imagism"”.
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Pound's Progress: The Vortextual Evolution of Imagism and Its Poetic Image
… contributes to the overall understanding of Imagism. Yet, by not weaving the technique and theory of Imagism into a linear account of its development, those studies tend to view those aspects of Imagism as if they were discrete and stable entities. To counteract that trend, this dissertation …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… impressionism, suffragism and the Great War with Imagism and Vorticism, Marxist tropes of the 'thirties with the New Realism, and the rise of nationalism with the aesthetics of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. My work examines not only the extent to which content imposes formal features but also …
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'A test for poetry': an examination of Louis Zukofsky's 'objectivist principles' and poetic practice
… relationship between his work and Ezra Pound's Imagism. My aim here is to put the origins of Zukofsky's principles into an appropriate context, disputing the idea of the `objectivist' as a temporarily revivified Imagist. Chapter II examines Zukofsky's earliest verse, both umpublished juvenilia …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… but with an important difference. Pound's imagism emphasizes the strict avoidance of all clichéd expressions and calls for the substitution of concrete images for verbal narrative. Woolf and Lewis, on the other hand, create a tension between verbal narrative and the visual image that …
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Themes in the poetry of Stephen Crane.
… techniques and literary philosophies, including imagism, symbolism, naturalism and realism. The only consistent factor in his own expressed philosophy was a desire to adhere to the truth. His poetry is free verse, and relies heavily on metre and alliteration for its rhythms. The first theme …
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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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Come, Comet
COME, COMET is a collection of poetry written and compiled during my course of study at Missouri State University. It is an intimate reflection of my experiences and perceptions. The subjects range from relationships between lovers, the surreal nature of dreams, exploring the unconscious processes, …