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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"contemporary poetry"”.
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Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry
The shift toward and identification of what I am calling unnatural ecopoetics represents an important development for ecopoetics and more broadly for ecocriticism--first, through broader applicability of ecopoetic theory and second, through increased clarity surrounding the term ecopoetics. The …
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The Radicant Artist: Echoes of Georgia O'Keeffe in Contemporary Poetry
This dissertation examines the renderings into poetry of the life and works of the American Modernist painter, Georgia O’Keeffe. This study intends to show how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O’Keeffe’s subjects into words by making room for new meaningful images, thereby …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
… The imaginative poetic language that some contemporary poetry enacts, resonates with Levinas’s ethical motivations and methods for responding to alterity. The following project investigates facets of this question in relation to Levinas: how do the contemporary poets Peter Blue Cloud, Jorie …
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Nonfiction forms in contemporary poetry by Black and Asian American Writers
<p>Writers experiment with form inside poetry for various reasons, including a desire for play. Creating poetry is a creative process that involves experimentation. This research highlights poetry that adapts established nonfiction forms into poetry forms, examining poetry published in 2000-2024 by …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… of forced displacement in British Romantic poetry to contemporary poetry written or circulated in the United Kingdom in response to the so-called refugee crisis of 2015-2016. I argue that these two periods can speak to each other meaningfully because the turn of the nineteenth century saw …
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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
This thesis explores how modern poetry is shaped by its relationships with academic and historical texts. Occasioned by creative writers’ increasing involvement in the academy, it considers the consequences of this relationship for contemporary poetry praxis. Through close readings of David Jones’ …
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Scholia on vireos: a field guide to the family Vireonidae
… foremost an experiment in the form and music of contemporary poetry. Each genus of the family has a particular form which was developed to represent it, and the syllable count of the lines was often inspired by the individual species's song. There is at least one poem for each species of bird. …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… identity positions of speakers in modern and contemporary poetry with respect to themes of subjectivity, self-awareness, lyricism, heteroglossia, and social contextualization, from perspectives including Bakhtinian, queer, feminist and postructuralist theories, and Peircian semiotics. Tony …
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Violet is one letter off from violent
… aim to add to the critical conversation in contemporary poetry about violence, women’s anger, patriarchal oppression, and physical and sexual assault, specifically drawing on analyses from the poetry of Rachel McKibbens, Tarfia Faizullah, Emily Skaja, Erika L. Sánchez, Tracy K. Smith, Safiya …
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The use of humorous content material and student attitude toward poetry
… of using humorous content material in teaching poetry to high school students. Implementing a Solomon three-group design, with a pretest-posttest component, one treatment group of tenth graders was introduced to poetry using only modern and contemporary humorous poetry while a control group was …
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"I have nothing to say, only to show": appropriation in the poetries of Trevor Joyce, Alan Halsey, and Susan Howe
This thesis studies contemporary poetry’s innovations in textual borrowing and the range and scope of its appropriative practices. The restrictions of the inherited definitions of appropriation include a limited capacity for expression and meaningfulness, a partial concept of appropriation’s …
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… examines the connection between scripture and contemporary American poetry. Scripture is inherently poetic, employing devices that require analysis and explication. Poets drawing from scriptural text for narrative, language, or form are not looking to replace scripture, or even enhance it. …
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On Combustion: Contemporary British Poetry and the Pyrocene (1990-2017)
… of combustion, flame, and fire across a range of contemporary works of experimental British poetry in the period 1990-2017 (particularly those arising from the so-called ‘Cambridge School’). It argues that this body of texts proves exceptionally sensitive to registering and evaluating the cultural …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
This thesis documents and critically evaluates contemporary poetry within the dynamic field of the cultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the late 1980s. It interrogates and challenges competing literary historiographies on behalf of marginalised voices. While ethno-nationalists …
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A transnational poetics of place: identity, otherness and the meaning of home in the poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Bei Dao, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe
… the writer’s negotiation of home in the work of contemporary poets of the Chinese diaspora through critical examination and creative practice. It aims to redraw current accounts of contemporary poetry from 1980s to the present day, to derive new knowledge about the idea of race and the impact of …
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Myths of place : the importance of landscape in the poetries of W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney
… concerned with its significance in modern and contemporary poetry. Works on Auden and Heaney make reference to local elements, but do not consider the overall and continuous importance of landscape in their writings. It is hoped that this study goes some way towards remedying these …
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Gender Ambiguity in Early Modern English and French Art, 1530-1630
… France, diverse literature, from pamphlets to poetry, links gender ambiguity to its ability to evade categorisation, blur boundaries or deceive. While previously gender ambiguity in art has often been dismissed as the product of historical distance, or discussed primarily in terms of sexuality, …
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The Corncrake in the Aftergrass: poetry practice, cultures and contexts in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… and contexts? My thesis investigates whether contemporary poetry practice can go beyond the polemics and pietism of difference in contributing to conversations of conviction both within and outside cultures and contexts in Northern Ireland. It explores how I find my voice and vocation in …
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
… of Love. </p><p>The conclusion considers contemporary poetry by Barbara Guest, Kathleen Fraser, and Ciaran Carson in light of the new information that medieval texts bring to the understanding of the ekphrastic mode and discusses intersecting concerns of the medieval and contemporary …
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