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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Twentieth Century poetry"”.
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The natural and rural world in twentieth century British poetry
… of urbanisation and industrialisationg British poetry has often seemed more concerned with the natural and rural world. The thesis uses this paradox to explore two particular aspects of Twentieth Century poetry of the natural azid rural world -'its attitude and orientation towards the actual …
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… untold history, dating back to turn-of-the-century America and Europe. Entitled Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971, my Ph.D. thesis tracks the extraordinary amount of intellectual activity devoted to producing a scientific account of poetry, tracing the use of measurement technologies, the …
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Tea, gammon, and coke : the eucharistic imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.
… eucharistic theology, theology of food, and twentieth-century poetry and verse drama to illustrate the cultural, material, and spiritual significance of acts of eating with Eliot and Levertov's oeuvres. Critical work in food studies, particularly as it relates to modernism and the twentieth …
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
… a desire to understand the relationship between poetry and politics in a meaningful and current way. The twentieth century has seen atrocities that have taken place on an unprecedented scale: times of historical and social extremity, states of exile, censorship, military occupation, political …
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A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements
… dissertation, "A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements," creates an interdisciplinary subfield where I use aspects of trans history and trans cultural production to uncover and document the centrality of contributions by trans poets to the …
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Where Intellect and Intuition Converge: Epistemological Errancies in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
… mind from directionless wandering. In her early poetry Graham explores ways of defining and describing what it feels like to think. Later, she enacts thinking within the lines of her poems, sometimes allegorizing the operation of the intellect and intuition and sometimes provoking readers into an …
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‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dantean afterlives in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi
… the creative reception of Dantean poetics in the twentieth-century Italian literary panorama. The contribution aligns with Coolahan’s definition of reception (2020) to assess Dante’s impact on the manifold poetic developments of the Italian Novecento. Its fundamental research questions address …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
… of a philosophical dynamic at work in their poetry. The critical debates surrounding experimental poetry often tend to be structured as a dualistic opposition with, for example, the forces of coherence, narrative linearity, and transparent referentiality on one side, and the forces of …
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A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays
… accompanied by a set of essays. It explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising systems) is a secondary focus of the creative …