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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"female poets"”.
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… history. Also, historians show that poets have often played a major role in the revelation of the important events of people. The black poets of the 1960's used their poetry to urge African-American people to act in order to make changes in their own lives. This poetry often exposed …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… in relation to contemporaneous developments in female portraiture. This thesis focuses on the three fifteenth-century Italian writing women who are also firmly identified subjects in independent painted portraits: Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427-1482), painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in c.1475; …
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Memory at work : domestic archives in documentary poetry by women of color
… studied. Arguing that documentary poetry helps poets localize censored historical events, I consider seven female poets of color whose documentary poetry projects represent the domestic sphere as a hyper-locality with a distinctly archival infrastructure. This infrastructure is constructed and …
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Women and bodily separation in literature from the Victorian era until today
<p>The dualities that are often associated with female characters have taken many forms throughout the centuries. In the Victorian era, female characters were often presented as dual natured; oftentimes this division was represented through the use of a madwoman and a heroine. In the early 20th …
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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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At the center of American modernism: Lola Ridge's politics, poetics, and publishing
… for her neglect. A simple look at well-known female poets who often wrote about social or political issues during Ridge's lifetime, such as Edna St. Vincent Millay and Muriel Rukeyser, weakens such a claim. Furthermore, Ridge's five books of poetry illustrate that many of her poems focused on …
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Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft
… project proposes to examine a current cohort of female poets employing performance techniques in their poetries, investigating how these poets continue to adapt and adopt the aesthetics of earlier poets. In recent years, the popularity of poetry in online communities has boomed, with an …
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Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz
… Kenny Rodríguez, and Eva Ortiz, three Salvadoran poets who participated actively in the Civil War of El Salvador (1980-1992), and produced their literary work in that same period. It explores, from the perspective of Nomadism developed by Rosi Braidotti, the resignification of the feminine …
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Earth Ascending: A Composition in Three Movements for Female Voice, Electroacoustic Music, and Video
… is a composition in three movements scored for female voice, electroacoustic music, and video. Composed in the Year 2000, Earth Ascending lasts approximately sixteen minutes and was created specifically for live performance in which all three elements combine to create a sonic and visual …