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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Modernist poetry"”.
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
… 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 that a decorative ethos lives on in modernist poetry. Many of the aesthetic features that we associate with modernist …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… articulate this belief in the works of British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… the Romantic individualism that is typical of Modernist poetry in English.
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By the Book: Book Collecting, Scrapbooking, and the Making of Modernism, 1880--1950
… by arguing that while book collecting-influenced modernist poetry and criticism were dominant for the first half of the twentieth century, scrapbook-influenced modernism helped pave the way for a postmodernism characterized by chance, openness and pastiche. I further claim that the dialectic of …
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MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG: Visibility Through Theatre Creation
… structures from other art forms, such as modernist poetry. By prioritizing the organization of theatrical time over linear story chronology, the theatrical event uses a queering of linear form to underscore the autobiographical queer content. As theatrical narrative has primarily been …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
The defense of poetry is a centuries-old genre 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 …
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Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
This dissertation demonstrates how modernist poets dramatize the dynamic, complex mental dispositions and sensibilities necessary for readers to comprehend the notorious difficultly of modernist literature and handle the maelstrom of modernity. Beginning with, perhaps, the most philosophically …
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… poses the question, ‘can we find Kindness in modernist American poetry?’ It is a work comprised primarily of detailed and extended close readings that will track Kindness through selections from the works of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and …
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Embracing Fracture: The Buddhist Poetics of Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer
… running through American Modernism and American Modernist Poetry. I examine the works, both poetic and critical, of two authors, Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer. I explore Allen Ginsberg's relationship with Buddhism, as it changed throughout his life, looking at key poems in his early career, …
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I Was Not Born
… from my critical work as a scholar of both modernist poetry and contemporary poetics. One focus of my PhD is early modernist female 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 …
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A Poetics of Paradox : Reality and the Imagination in the Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek
This thesis examines the poetry and poetics of Louis Dudek, the prolific Canadian poet and critic, in order to elucidate the ways in which he balances competing realist and transcendentalist urges over the course of a career that spans more than sixty years. From his earliest “social-realist” …
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The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
… her role as a cultural broker within the modernist tradition. Deutsch’s diverse oeuvre, spanning poetry, fiction, translation, and literary criticism, is re-evaluated through the lens of cultural brokerage, a concept rooted in anthropological discourse. The study delves into her impact on …
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The laws of verse : the poetry of Alice Meynell and its literary contexts, 1875-1923
… and technical procedures in the field of poetry than has heretofore been available. Examining select specimens of Meynell’s verse in the light of prosodic theories current at the time both she and her Modernist contemporaries were writing further allows us to see, in place of the familiar …