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The Wound Is (Not) Real

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Invoking “the wound” as a space of semiotic, subjective, narrative, and hegemonic rupture, The Wound Is (Not) Real interrogates trauma and its effects on the formation of adolescent masculinity. Synthesizing and rejecting the conventions of lyric-narrative poetry, the prose poem, critical prose, and the memoir, The Wound Is (Not) Real ultimately attempts to link “woundedness” to poetic language itself, suggesting that poetry rises out of rupture and trauma. I seek to give poetic language its own form of agency; one which resists contextualization or New Critical modes of explication.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
English
Year dc:date.available
2016

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Cain, Martin M.
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Beth Ann Fennelly
  • Derrick Harriell
  • Karen Raber

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1243
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2242

Chain of custody

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2026-07-24
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citation

Cain, Martin M.. The Wound Is (Not) Real. Dissertation thesis, 2016. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1243