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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Marianne Moore"”.
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Politics of Place in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore
… poets—T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. Through the critical lens of both human geography and social construction theories of place, this project aims to uncover the underlying political connotations of the representations of place in their poetry.
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Examining the particular, illuminating the singular: Gender, sexuality and desire in the lives and works of Marianne Moore and Bryher
… conceptions were received and practiced. Marianne Moore and Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) are of interest to this study because their lives resist a heteronormative frame while their texts (correspondence, personal writings, published poetry and prose) explore a range of possibilities. …
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
Focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy, this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue …
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Poetry as a Pedagogy of Touch
… lens, specifically the works of Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Anne Carson, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, I show how ‘touch’ plays into our language, consequently affecting how we think through language.
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
… that shapes the verse of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams. Arguments from the defense of poetry become models for the imagery in their poems and for their own poetic voices. These arguments include defending poiesis as the ennobling essence of poetry; attacking …
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Controlled Arrangements, Liberated Perceptions: Marianne Moore's Early Poetry Through the Lens of Shklovskian Russian Formalism
This dissertation examines the early poetry of Marianne Moore through the critical lens of Russian Formalism according to Victor Shklovsky's 1917 essay "Art as Technique," which theorizes that art is a method of perception in which an individual assumes new, unfamiliar perspectives toward an object …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, and Harry Crosby. Marianne Moore will also be discussed. In addition, although Irishman James Joyce and Englishman Ford Maddox Fod expatriated from countries other than America, their contributions to the lifestyle and/or creative productivity of their American …
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Beyond the Cheated Eye: Modern American Poetry and the Perils of Post -Romantic Subjectivity
… begins to be fulfilled by successors like Marianne Moore, whose modernist collages extend Dickinson's critique of possessiveness across a remarkable range of relationships, and by Hart Crane and James Merrill, whose early attempts to fashion a non-possessive poetic space eventually become …
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I Was Not Born
… writers, such as Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore. My dissertation returns to these women, as well as to more contemporary experimental poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Lyn Hejinian.<em> I Was Not Born</em>is grounded in dialogue with these particular poets to …
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… Similarly, my second chapter shows that Marianne Moore and José Garcia Villa’s poetry, directed toward creating what I call the “didactic subject,” is meant to challenge the kind of assumptions that subsume individuals under categories of identity. The didactic subject is a form of self …
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Introducing Godzilla to Marianne Moore's Octopus of Ice at the Intersection of Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy, and Poetry
… poem that thinks like a mountain already exists: Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus” (published in 1924), which takes its title from the system of glaciers (or octopus of ice) on Mt. Rainier. For a contemporary poet to think like a mountain, he or she may explore the retreat of glaciers and …