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An Exploration Of Voice And Verse: The Poetry Of Mary Barnard, Molly O'Hara Ewing
An Exploration Of Voice And Verse: The Poetry Of Mary Barnard, Molly O'Hara Ewing
Culminating Projects in English
The poetry of Mary Barnard has been largely ignored by scholarly and literary society since she began writing in the 1920's. This is due in part to her variety of subjects, themes, and forms, as well as to her relatively small output. Nevertheless, it comprises an important contribution to the development of American poetry in the twentieth century, a fact which has been acknowledged by her peers such as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, and Sam Hamill. This study of her poetic development identifies and examines several important aspects of and influences on Barnard's verse in order to assess …
The Poetics Of Open And Closed Forms, Tyrone Williams
The Poetics Of Open And Closed Forms, Tyrone Williams
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation is an investigation into the "origins" and developments of the concepts of open and closed forms in American poetics and poetry. After a brief overview of the form these concepts take in the poetics of Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth, I trace the development of these concepts through the critical work of Charles Olson, Barbara Herrnstein-Smith, Joseph Frank and William Spanos. My argument is twofold: (1) that the concepts of open and closed forms are predicated on philosophical notions concerning form, image, space and time, and (2) these concepts are all interrelated, i.e., open forms are closed in …
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: The Rhetoric Of The New Women's Reality, Cynthea Reid Preston
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: The Rhetoric Of The New Women's Reality, Cynthea Reid Preston
Theses Digitization Project
Discusses the alternate women's reality developed by Robinson in her novel.
Running On Empty: The Myth Of The Automobile In Three Works By Chester Himes, Christopher Blair Hailey
Running On Empty: The Myth Of The Automobile In Three Works By Chester Himes, Christopher Blair Hailey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Out Of Left Field: William Saroyan's Thirties Fiction As A Reflection Of The Great Depression, Hildy Michelle Coleman
Out Of Left Field: William Saroyan's Thirties Fiction As A Reflection Of The Great Depression, Hildy Michelle Coleman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Edition Of Ellen Glasgow's "Between Two Shores", Lucia Wallis Smith
An Edition Of Ellen Glasgow's "Between Two Shores", Lucia Wallis Smith
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison's Reclamation Of Her Past, Timothy Kelly Nixon
Toni Morrison's Reclamation Of Her Past, Timothy Kelly Nixon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Addie Bundren And Her Linguistic Dilemma, Amy Zakrzewski Watson
Addie Bundren And Her Linguistic Dilemma, Amy Zakrzewski Watson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"What Mean?": The Postmodern Metafiction Within William Gaddis's "The Recognitions", Sean Butler
"What Mean?": The Postmodern Metafiction Within William Gaddis's "The Recognitions", Sean Butler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Marianne Moore: Facets Of The Crystal, Mary Virginia Katzeff
Marianne Moore: Facets Of The Crystal, Mary Virginia Katzeff
Masters Theses
Marianne Mooore's poetry embodies two different types of work. As well as the objective poetry that her contemporaries called modernist or Imagist (labels which she rejected), she also wrote quite personal, subjective poems. Two factors, theme and subject matter, unify her work and give evidence of her distinct poetic voice.
The content and form of Moore's work developed from her personal life and interests. In her childhood, loss of a beloved grandfather and changes of household, as well as a lifelong attachment to her mother, affected the poet deeply, as evidenced by her consistent theme of protection. Exotic animals populate …
A Woman's Quest For Happiness: O'Neill's "Private Myth", Andrea Ximena CampañA Garcia
A Woman's Quest For Happiness: O'Neill's "Private Myth", Andrea Ximena CampañA Garcia
Masters Theses
Following the approach used by James Hurt in his book Catiline's Dream to determine Henrik Ibsen's "private myth" which he retold in play after play, I have delineated O'Neill's "private myth" in a narrower way concentrating on his female characters. Examining parallel motifs in the lives of the dominant women in Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra, I have detected this mythic pattern involving the O'Neillian woman: She goes through an early innocent and submissive state guided by an initial vision of happiness which can be regarded as fairly conventional. But when her …
A New Reading Of Ruth Suckow, Judith Pierson
A New Reading Of Ruth Suckow, Judith Pierson
Masters Theses
By 1950, after three decades of writing, Ruth Suckow (1892-1960) was a well-respected writer whose work seemed headed for a permanent position in the canon of American literature. Instead, Suckow's fiction steadily became less known through the following decades. The question of why her work came to be ignored and why such a position is unwarranted is addressed in A New Reading of Ruth Suckow. The conclusion is that a regionalist categorization and a related gender bias in the literary canon have adversely affected Suckow's works.
Gender bias is reflected in the critical assumptions which ascribe an inferior position to …