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Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Dissertations
The following creative dissertation is a book of 57 poems.
Disappointing Shades, Ann Shivers Mcnair
Disappointing Shades, Ann Shivers Mcnair
Master's Theses
Disappointing Shades is a collection of poems written at The University of Southern Mississippi. It is accompanied by a critical preface.
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Dissertations
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service is a collection of poems that examines death and mortality and includes a critical preface.
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface.
The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker
The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker
Dissertations
The Nightingale of Austerlitz employs poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to articulate the theme of (mis)communication. A pliable, multi-genre approach was necessary to convey the urgency of two central characters’ desire to connect despite the impossibility of doing so. Prose interrupts and challenges the set precision of poetry in order to embody the stops and starts—the literal and figurative breakdowns—of communication. The juxtaposition of genres dramatizes dialogue, silence, affective distance, and desire. Song, sound, repetition (using lullaby, referencing music, thematizing the ear) further assert the power of language as performance and aesthetics as consolation, and provoke a particular kind of attention …