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Chutes And Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics As Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan Jan 2019

Chutes And Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics As Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan

Senior Projects Spring 2019

I’ve always found it difficult to say just what I think is happening in John Ashbery’s poetry, even when I recognize that I’ve undergone something through the course of reading. With Ashbery, I find myself becoming conscious of how I construct meaning from language, and I understand this self-reflexivity as a “poetics as experience.” Ashbery had read or at least been aware of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens—all of which explore how consciousness manifests through language. I read these figures through American pragmatism, which views writing as an activity that follows perception …


Inside The Fault Lines Of The Heart: The Poetics Of Exile In The Works Of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, And Etel Adnan., Shahong Jeanou Billault-Lee Jan 2019

Inside The Fault Lines Of The Heart: The Poetics Of Exile In The Works Of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, And Etel Adnan., Shahong Jeanou Billault-Lee

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


"Dragging The Net Of Estrangement": Poetics Of The Sea In Elegies Of The Mediterranean, Shiraz Aryan Fazli Jan 2019

"Dragging The Net Of Estrangement": Poetics Of The Sea In Elegies Of The Mediterranean, Shiraz Aryan Fazli

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Becoming Biophilic Beasts, Nat Tereshchenko Jan 2019

Becoming Biophilic Beasts, Nat Tereshchenko

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This project seeks, by way of experimentation with a poetic and lyrical register, to embody in its form and content the expression of the interrelated and co-constitutive relationship between human beings and other animals. It addresses through its form the limitations of philosophy and of traditional notions of rational argumentation in order to expose ways in which such methods of writing about ethics in regards to animals have fallen short of addressing that which brings us close to animals, allows us to touch and be touched by them, and ignites us to act according to a kind of felt and …


A Hundred Houses: Pauline Leader And The Spatial Poetics Of Disability, Carl Robert Nelson Jan 2019

A Hundred Houses: Pauline Leader And The Spatial Poetics Of Disability, Carl Robert Nelson

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College.


The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno Jan 2019

The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Red Sea, Yellow Earth, Isabella Clay Martinez Jan 2019

Red Sea, Yellow Earth, Isabella Clay Martinez

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.