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Manhattan Transference: Reader Itineraries In Modernist New York, Sophia Bamert
Manhattan Transference: Reader Itineraries In Modernist New York, Sophia Bamert
Honors Papers
John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925) follows dozens of characters through modern New York City. The novel is organized as a fragmented montage and, in this paper, I argue that transit functions as both a central theme and the structuring principle of the text. I compare Manhattan Transfer to works by Walt Whitman and William Dean Howells and draw upon spatial form theory to examine how experiences of urban transportation influence literary forms. Ultimately, I suggest that Manhattan Transfer's modernist form offers readers itinerant ways of perceiving the complicated networks of which cities are made.
Hybrid Rhythms, Antithetical Echoes, And Autopoiesis: Intersections Between Sound, Self, And Nation In The Poetry Of Yeats, Connor Stratton
Hybrid Rhythms, Antithetical Echoes, And Autopoiesis: Intersections Between Sound, Self, And Nation In The Poetry Of Yeats, Connor Stratton
Honors Papers
Current critical attention on poetry's aural features and possibilities is scant. My project on W.B. Yeats is a corrective, as his poetry exemplifies how sonic tools and sound structures perform or create meaning. Specifically, I concentrate on the intersection between Yeats's nationalist and postcolonial posturings and his aural forms. By exploring this intersection within the frameworks of 'antithetical nationalism' and 'hybridity', I reveal the rich range of sound's semantic possibilities in poetry.