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Detention, Virginia Murray-Torres
Detention, Virginia Murray-Torres
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A novel-in-verse about a teenage girl's detainment in an immigration center, separation from her family, and removal proceedings hearing with a 360 degree point of view from the people she interacts with, as well as her own.
To Love The Birds And The Places They’Ve Made Their Home: Poems From The Magic Valley, Alyssa B. Garza
To Love The Birds And The Places They’Ve Made Their Home: Poems From The Magic Valley, Alyssa B. Garza
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The theme of the collection could be summed up in these lines written by Caryll Houselander in The Reed of God, “body and soul together give glory to God: the sharper the capacity for sorrow and joy, the greater the hallowing...Christ laid hold of the world with His human hands...He wed Himself to it. Our life is the response of the bride” (66–67). Our loving connection to every human person is our loving connection to Christ—charity is our bride-ness. The poems follow one bride through her journey, with the author’s environment (the Rio Grande Valley) coloring the verses, as …
718-554-3854, James S. Chrzan
718-554-3854, James S. Chrzan
Theses and Dissertations
718-554-3854 is a poem that originally appeared in various printed, spoken, and recorded iterations throughout part one of the Spring 2019 Hunter College MFA Thesis exhibition. Accompanying the text are extensive notes that elaborate on the ideas, influences, and intentions that informed the poem and the exhibition.
The Relationship To Architecture Is Not Insignificant, Rachel Hillery
The Relationship To Architecture Is Not Insignificant, Rachel Hillery
Theses and Dissertations
Working with writing, psychology, photography, and architecture, I develop texts that are performed with custom-built furniture and objects in unexpected spatial conditions. The paper traces the development of my writing and performance and my explorations of power and gender dynamics.
Poetics, Not Pragmatics: Understanding Metaphors In A Poetic Context, Savannah Marciezyk
Poetics, Not Pragmatics: Understanding Metaphors In A Poetic Context, Savannah Marciezyk
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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 …
Warped Gates, Christopher Roberson
Warped Gates, Christopher Roberson
Theses and Dissertations
I am interested in the ambient conditions that are filtered through our bodies and our relationships with the built structures positioning us. I am combining experimental material approaches with a sensitivity to the spaces around an artwork to create sculptural situations that are dissonant and precarious.