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The J In Danger, Zachary Delamater
The J In Danger, Zachary Delamater
Theses and Dissertations
“The J in Danger” merges autobiographic and formal concerns in sculpture and installation to describe the existential hazards contemporary life poses to Queer and Disabled individuals. The paper utilizes silent letters as thematic device to connect notions of precarity to a broader sense of contemporary “doomerism.”
Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany
Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany
Theses and Dissertations
Today, the sentimentality associated with poetry is often condescendingly dubbed in a patriarchal society as “feminine poetry.” The first women poets who dared to attempt the pen were often met with attacks on their femaleness and harsh critiques of their writing which was likened to sorcery and witchcraft. Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Audre Lorde are three American women poets who countered these attacks and turned them inside out in favor of their own womanist poetics. They wrote about experiencing the world as women and most importantly about experiencing poetry as women. What happens to poetry when a woman appropriates …
Stars Collaged Of Gases (Or, We Are Not Lonely Anymore), Josh English
Stars Collaged Of Gases (Or, We Are Not Lonely Anymore), Josh English
Theses and Dissertations
This work seeks to reconcile a variety of epistemological perspectives. Through six distinct sections, the poems in this book consider personal experience, science, poetics, and more. The book seeks to arrive at a place where uncertainty offers equal if not greater value than certainty in epistemological terms.