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Browsing by Subject "Poetry"
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Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh
(2019)This dissertation examines the collaborative poetry and poetics of four early modern women writers: Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), Katherine Philips (1631-1664) and Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656 ... -
Guided by Voices: Poetry, the Paranormal, and Mythmaking
(2021)This dissertation reconsiders the relationship between nineteenth and twentieth century artists and the paranormal. Historically, the term “paranormal” has denoted an array of otherworldly phenomena that has captivated artists ... -
Imagined Democracy: Material Publishing, War, and the Emergence of Democratic Thinking in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 1855-1867
(2010)This dissertation traces the evolution of Whitman's democratic thinking across the first four editions of Leaves of Grass, covering the auspicious years 1855, 1856, 1860 and 1867. While democracy is the master political ... -
Louise Ackermann's Monstrous Nature
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Nietzsche's Revaluation of Philosophy and Poetry
(2013-04-25)Nietzsche’s dual interest in philosophy and poetry has major ramifications for the both the style and content of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Though most modern philosophical texts consider clarity of argument to be ... -
Odalisques
(2013-04-30)My senior honors thesis for the English department is a short booklet of poetry titled Odalisques. I've been very interested in the relationship of male heterosexual painters to their nude female subjects and the question ... -
Offering a “Sacrifice of Praise”: Human Vocation, Culture-Making, and Cultivating a Sabbath Imagination
(2018)This dissertation consists of an examination of the human cultural vocation in relation to the created order at large, with particular reference to the writings of theologian Colin Gunton, and writer, poet, and cultural ... -
Picturing Poetics: Seriality, Comics, and the Cartoon in US Experimental Poetry
(2020)I argue that experimental poets, beginning with Gertrude Stein but proliferating later in the century with such poets as Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Joe Brainard, and Barbara Guest, were drawn to comics for the way they perform, ... -
Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
(2019)This dissertation examines how three ancient Christian poets scripted female biblical figures as models of emboldened faith for all to emulate. Through imagined speech and narrative embellishment, they brought familiar ... -
Syllabic Heirlooms
(2017-12)Syllabic Heirlooms is a collection steeped in lyricism, myth and Southwestern idiom as it explores inherited speech, feminine self-possession and the journey from love to liberation. An abbreviated version of the collection ... -
The Island of Moss and Snow
(2012-11-07)This poetic project was inspired by extensive research of the John Zeigler Papers, a collection of letters between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacock, two gay men serving in the U.S. military during World War II. The relationship ... -
The Poetics of Labor: Visions of Work and Community in England, 1730-1890
(2019)The Poetics of Labor argues for a reconsideration of how manual labor functions within poetic texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. As scholarship over the last forty years and onward has demonstrated, ... -
Translation of Maithilisharan Gupt's Saket
(2018-04)Maithilisharan Gupt’s Saket, written in 1932, is an epic Hindi poem presenting the story of the Ramayana from a humanized and highly emotional perspective. As the work of a National Poet written during a time in which nationalist ... -
When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
(2009)ABSTRACTThis study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. ...
