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The City As A Poetic Object: An Ethnographic Approach To Milwaukee And Its Poets, Antonio Paniagua Guzmán
The City As A Poetic Object: An Ethnographic Approach To Milwaukee And Its Poets, Antonio Paniagua Guzmán
Theses and Dissertations
Poetry has historically been an important component of cities’ culture, urban life, and history. There is a mutual influence of poetry and the city; while the city and the way its history unfolds shape poetic production patterns and poets’ narratives, it is capable of illuminating diverse social and urban phenomena and shape diverse social groups’ cultural practices and urban experience. While scholars from social science and humanistic disciplines have investigated the relationship between poetry and the city by looking at how cities are represented poetically and how cities shape the production, distribution, and consumption of poetry, I turn to a …
Poetics, Not Pragmatics: Understanding Metaphors In A Poetic Context, Savannah Marciezyk
Poetics, Not Pragmatics: Understanding Metaphors In A Poetic Context, Savannah Marciezyk
Theses and Dissertations
The aim of this paper is to explain why the leading theories of metaphor fail when applied to metaphors which appear in poems. The ability to understand the true meaning of a metaphor in conversations relies on understanding speaker intention and extralinguistic context. This paper argues that because such material is not available to the reader of a poem, theories which rely heavily on pragmatics to explain metaphors cannot be successfully applied to metaphors which appear in poems. This paper makes use of the views on metaphor by John Searle and Paul Grice, and discusses how meaning is constructed in …
The Heart Is A Hollow Muscle, Aviva Englander Cristy
The Heart Is A Hollow Muscle, Aviva Englander Cristy
Theses and Dissertations
This collection of poetry explores the relationship of between self and body by way of form and language. Through syntax and poetic forms, especially the sonnet, these poems investigate the interchange between the physical and the linguistics. The manuscript incorporates found text through the collage process, relying heavily on the medical texts of the seventeenth century anatomist William Harvey. The medicalized body becomes the means through which the speakers of these poems experience and express identity, considering the physical body as the body in pain, the queered body, and the body of the beloved.
The Relief Of The Unreal Life: Poems, Colleen Robertson Abel
The Relief Of The Unreal Life: Poems, Colleen Robertson Abel
Theses and Dissertations
This collection of poems takes as its subject desire in its various guises. Religious desire--the human need to find faith and to hope for an afterlife, and the doubt and skepticism in those very needs--is braided together with more earthly desires, as well as with ruminations on artistic ambition. These poems situate themselves within the rich tradition of the postconfessional, transmuting autobiographical elements to form a narrative of marriage, pregnancy, loss and birth that anchors the book. This narrative is juxtaposed with other lyric voices to explore the connections between hunger of all kinds.