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Choran Community: The Aesthetics Of Encounter In Literary And Photographic Modernism, Emily M. Hinnov
Choran Community: The Aesthetics Of Encounter In Literary And Photographic Modernism, Emily M. Hinnov
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines novels, photographs, and phototexts by British and American artists published between the world wars in order to argue that these works re-envision community through a narrative aesthetic, which I term the choran moment, that communicates the possibility of genuinely empathetic understanding between self and other. My study of literary and photographic modernism is based upon these modern artists' awareness of an ever-present, organic community allied in common knowledge of the interconnection among humanity offered through convergence with and respect for difference. These choran moments of correlation are key to the aesthetics and therefore the politics of modernist …
"Invidiam Viam Aut Faciam": "I Will Find A Way Or Make One" The Poetic Practice Of Political Counsel In The Courts Of Elizabeth I And James I, Andrea L. Harkness
"Invidiam Viam Aut Faciam": "I Will Find A Way Or Make One" The Poetic Practice Of Political Counsel In The Courts Of Elizabeth I And James I, Andrea L. Harkness
Doctoral Dissertations
In this study I argue that at least four poets: three aristocrats from the Sidney family---Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Mary Wroth---with a history of service to Tudor monarchs, and one non-aristocratic writer, Aemilia Lanyer, who claimed to be a poetical descendant of a Sidney, responded to the efforts of Elizabeth I and James I to restrict the power of the aristocracy by claiming a right to offer counsel to their monarch. Though no one of them could claim a position from which to offer direct counsel, they each exploited the Petrarchan discourse of love to assert an …