Iconoclast in the mirror.

This work explores 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 Hoagland, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous provide textual examples of an evolving aesthetic in which the poet's self and world comprise multiple dynamic, open relationships supplanting one in which simple correspondences between signifiers and signifieds define selves isolated from the world. Hypertext and polyamory serve as useful analogies to the semantic eros characteristic of such poetry, including the collection of original poems that the critical portion of this thesis introduces.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Alexander, Lydia L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bond, Bruce
• Marks, Corey
• Simpkins, Scott, 1958-

• Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
• poetry
• heteroglossia
• identity
• subjectivity
• spirituality
• polyamory

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Alexander, Lydia L.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 67837214
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4822/
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