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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Cantos"”.
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"Ego, scriptor cantilenae": The Cantos and Ezra Pound
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Aphrodite as Acorn: Method and Message in the Cantos of Ezra Pound
<p>The appearances of the goddess Aphrodite in The Cantos of Ezra Pound mark the most beautiful passages of the poem. Both enchanted and challenged, I begin this paper. I will do three things.</p> <p>First, I will survey the critical work on the role of Aphrodite written over the last twenty years. …
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Ezra Pound's City: The Total Light Process
<p>Ezra Pound became infatuated with the beauty of Venice when he traveled through Europe with his Aunt Frank as a young man of twelve. The sensibility expressed by the stones of Venice became an inspiration to which he gravitated for the rest of his life: "I first saw Venice in 1898 and have …
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Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems
The principles of form in ‘mosaic’ poems such as The Cantos, Paterson, Maximus, or even ‘The Waste Land,’ are not yet clearly understood. Criticism needs to bring its various ideas of ‘musical form,’ ‘non-linear form,’ or ‘the poem as a field of forces’ into sharper focus. Mosaic poems are …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
This thesis examines the complex intersections between Derek Walcott’s Omeros and modernist versions of the epic. Critics generally acknowledge the pervasive presence of modernist allusions in Walcott’s early work, but see the relevance of modernism diminishing as Walcott develops his “mature” …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
<p>This dissertation examines the ways in which traditional epic conventions (in medias res, an invocation, a nationalist impulse, a particular kind of stylized language, and a heroic figure) are transformed in three twentieth-century modernist American poems. William Carlos Williams, Louis …
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'Forse in Parnaso esto loco sognaro'. Parnassian Imagery and Dante's Earthly Paradise
… myths and tropes connected to Parnassus in the Commedia. References to Parnassian imagery, seemingly scattered throughout the poem, have been studied by Dante’s scholars only on a case-by-case basis and in the context of single cantos. However, these references are not isolated and …
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The Mosaic Negative: Ahrt-Voik and Antisemitism in Ezra Pound's Work and Thought
This thesis investigates the relationship between artwork and antisemitism in Ezra Pound’s work and thought, arguing that Pound’s anti-Jewish prejudice was inextricably entwined with his views on artwork and the socially conscious artist. My first chapter opens by examining Pound’s Vorticist …
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
My thesis analyses Dante’s dreams and visions in the Vita nuova and the Commedia from a sensory-cognitive point of view, examining them as moments of privileged perception, when the sensations described appear not to correspond to perceptions necessitated by immediate external surroundings. While …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke (1933-1992) elaborated upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke (1933-1992) elaborated upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, …