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When We Found Us, Christopher Ratcliff
When We Found Us, Christopher Ratcliff
Honors Projects
A collection of pieces which represent a use of magic or mythic themes as applied to real-world experiences through both poetry and fiction work. An examination of the progress of the author through these themes and subjects curated in more-or-less chronological order by time of conception. The brutal mundanity of the rural Midwestern experience mingled alongside the magic-realism and mythic archetypes which span throughout history.
Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida
Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida
Theses
The purpose of my creative writing is to highlight a group of U.S. citizens still woefully underrepresented in literature proper: the Latinx middle class. I’m keenly interested in exploring Puerto Rican and first- and second-generation Latinx immigrant stories. Even though some of the experiences from these groups have been elegantly visited by writers such as Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Julia Alvarez, and others, there are nuances to the Latinx middle class experience that are yet to be uncovered. Being stuck in the cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and political middles in a country that has recently taken a largely nationalist …
Religion, Science, And Truth In The Human Experience: Poetry As Living Synthesis In Walt Whitman’S Leaves Of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
Religion, Science, And Truth In The Human Experience: Poetry As Living Synthesis In Walt Whitman’S Leaves Of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
Masters Theses
Walt Whitman’s great masterpiece Leaves of Grass stands out in the canon of nineteenth-century American poetry for both its innovations in form and its bold ventures into controversial subjects. One such subject is the role of science as opposed to religion in shaping the modern worldview. Whitman’s poetry alternately and at times simultaneously expresses both materialistic and metaphysical cosmologies, criticizing and casting away ancient traditions as often as he calls on them for inspiration.
In this paper I explore the influence of contemporary science on Whitman’s worldview, analyze how its theories shape the cosmology presented by his poetry, and discuss …
Speaking To Honeybees, Alexander Wells
Mexican Bingo, Amanda Michelle Galvan Huynh
Mexican Bingo, Amanda Michelle Galvan Huynh
English Theses & Dissertations
This collection of poetry is an elegy for what I have lost and what I have left behind in order to reach this point in my education. These poems attempt to be a witness to the Latinx community who migrated across Texas for field work, for a better future, and for their children. The collection is meant to communicate the loss of culture, generational differences, familial struggles, assimilation, health, womanhood, and trauma. While these poems are not all encompassing, they are a beginning and a way for me to better understand my role as a poet.
"A Poem Containing History": Pound As A Poet Of Deep Time, Newell Scott Porter
"A Poem Containing History": Pound As A Poet Of Deep Time, Newell Scott Porter
Theses and Dissertations
There has been an emergent trend in literary studies that challenges the tendency to categorize our approach to literature. This new investment in the idea of "world literature," while exciting, is also both theoretically and pragmatically problematic. While theorists can usually articulate a defense of a wider approach to literature, they struggle to develop a tangible approach to such an ideal. By examining Ezra Pound's critical approach to poetry, especially in The Cantos, an applicable visualization of a global approach to literature becomes more transparent.
Habla De La Arena (Procesos Contemporáneos De Escritura Poética), Carlos Mijail Lamas
Habla De La Arena (Procesos Contemporáneos De Escritura Poética), Carlos Mijail Lamas
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Este trabajo se plantea la creación de un poemario que reflexione sobre el poema como un campo de experimentación no solo formal, sino anímico, donde el andamiaje formal y rítmico de cada uno de los textos sea resultado de una indagación de la manera en que nuestra sensibilidad se ha modificado en relación con los estímulos de los entonrnos cibernéticos, la hiperconectividad y la simultaneidad de sus procesos. Las preguntas que se propone responder son ¿De qué manera el poeta puede enfrentar la abundancia y el flujo constante de información? ¿De qué forma el poema puede expresar la alteración de …
Bad Things To Good People: Stories, Christopher Ryne Brewer
Bad Things To Good People: Stories, Christopher Ryne Brewer
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Bad Things to Good People: Stories is a brief collection of five fictional short stories. As the collection’s title, which also serves as a bookending table of contents, indicates, these stories focus on the wide-ranging idea of bad things happening to good people. Written mostly in the literary style of minimalism, these stories explore various themes which circulate around topics such as: relationships, both familial and romantic, grieving losses, and a basic human need to make meaning of the sometimes-troubling events in one’s life. In the introduction to this collection, the stories offered here are compared alongside the works of …
When Poetry And Humor Get Hitched, Christian Hartselle
When Poetry And Humor Get Hitched, Christian Hartselle
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and play in the unknown and uncertain. By its very nature, comic poetry clings to the edges of what we know, so pinpointing its characteristics is tricky. But the shared characteristic of all comic poetry is the permission the poet grants herself to disobey boundaries. The poet chooses not to fit her works within the reader’s expectations, …
Conversations Of The Waning Moon, Anam F. Ismail
Conversations Of The Waning Moon, Anam F. Ismail
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
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Her, Alessandra Narvaez-Varela
Guru Nanak: Life, Lessons & Relevancy, Rajdeep Singh Dosanjh
Guru Nanak: Life, Lessons & Relevancy, Rajdeep Singh Dosanjh
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This senior project is centered on understanding the thought of Nanak the founder of Sikhism. It consist of historiography of Nanak, and understanding the core of Nanak's thought as centered around G-d's Immanence
From Here It Is A Patch Of Silver, Caroline H. Petty
From Here It Is A Patch Of Silver, Caroline H. Petty
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
"Nobody Knows Me I Speak The Night": A Translation Of Alejandra Pizarnik's Poetry, Lydia Merriman Herrick
"Nobody Knows Me I Speak The Night": A Translation Of Alejandra Pizarnik's Poetry, Lydia Merriman Herrick
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College
Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry, Jared James O'Connor
Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry, Jared James O'Connor
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the poetry of Joe Brainard and Anne Waldman, two poets of the critically neglected second-generation New York school. I argue that Brainard and Waldman help define the emerging discourse of postmodern poetry through their attention to cold war culture of the 1970s, countercultural ideologies, and poetic form. Both Brainard and Waldman enact a poetics of vulnerability in their work, situating themselves as wholly unique from their late-modernist predecessors. In doing so, they help engender a poetics concerned not only with the intellectual stakes but with the cultural environment they are forced to navigate. Chapter 1 explores Brainard's …
The Waters I Saw Drank Me In, Will Steen Strand
The Waters I Saw Drank Me In, Will Steen Strand
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Ostinato My Ass: Finding A Voice In The 21st Century, Richard Luke Koenig
Ostinato My Ass: Finding A Voice In The 21st Century, Richard Luke Koenig
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
G:, Taylor Lafe Cantrall
G:, Taylor Lafe Cantrall
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Here, Thinking, Nicolas Ocean Shannon
Here, Thinking, Nicolas Ocean Shannon
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Even Passage Of The Sun, Terrence Suraj Arjoon
The Even Passage Of The Sun, Terrence Suraj Arjoon
Senior Projects Spring 2017
A collection of poems that explore the relation of the individual to the world, a world of violence, complex systems of nature and industry, and beauty. The contemporary experience is filtered through the lenses of alchemy and metallurgy, drawing upon my personal history and readings in an attempt to make something completely atemporal.
Sins, Omissions, And Alibis, Johanna Marie Costigan
Sins, Omissions, And Alibis, Johanna Marie Costigan
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Short stories, creative nonficiton, prose poems.
Glimpses, Duncan Puce Hanrahan
Glimpses, Duncan Puce Hanrahan
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
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Poetic Possibilities: Poetry And Experience In Emerson, Nietzsche, And Freud, Amalia Astin
Poetic Possibilities: Poetry And Experience In Emerson, Nietzsche, And Freud, Amalia Astin
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Weird Propaganda: Texts Of The Black Power And Women’S Liberation Movements, Marie Buck
Weird Propaganda: Texts Of The Black Power And Women’S Liberation Movements, Marie Buck
Wayne State University Dissertations
“Weird Propaganda: Texts of the Black Power and Women’s Liberation Movements” examines texts of the Black Power and Women’s Liberation Movements: the early Black Arts Movement anthology For Malcolm; the now-canonical texts Our Bodies, Ourselves; The Black Woman; and Sisterhood Is Powerful; a number of pamphlets and other small press works; and the Black Panthers’ newspaper. This project argues that writers and activists used senses of the uncanny, along with elements of science fiction and fantasy, to negotiate the day-to-day uncertainties of political organizing and, more broadly, political hope. The texts examined here convey particular political views in an explict …
Fugitive Verses & Faded Histories: Recovering The Poetry & Influence Of The British American Loyalists, Michael C. Weisenburg
Fugitive Verses & Faded Histories: Recovering The Poetry & Influence Of The British American Loyalists, Michael C. Weisenburg
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation traces the literary history of the British American Loyalists as they spread through the Atlantic and across the North American continent during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in order to reassess our understanding of the origins of cultural nationalism and the early literary history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. As a result, it implicitly argues for a reconsideration of American literature as developing in a simultaneously hemispheric and transatlantic response to British Empire. I argue that the Loyalists, through their lived experience of the war, exile, and reincorporation back into the body politic, …
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems, Kaitlin Resler
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems, Kaitlin Resler
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis is an exploration of the language of food and drink in the letters and poetry of John Keats. In sifting through his letters, famous for his unselfconscious thoughts on the nature of poetry and poetic composition, it is possible to construct the details of his culinary life not only as it pertains to daily eating habits but also in how he uses the language of food to articulate the sensations achieved in the course of writing and reading poetry. Keats frequently adapted this language to describe these activities because for him, the way food is consumed and synthesized …
Reflection And Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented In Poetry, Adam Junker
Reflection And Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented In Poetry, Adam Junker
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis discusses the theories of ethnography and ethnographic verse and applies these two theories in an original narrative in verse. Ethnography and ethnographic verse have a complicated relationship when it comes to a poet’s authority representing a certain place. Yet authenticity is never obtainable, since perceptions of a place are always subjective. That subjectivity allows a poet creative expression, as he or she shapes his or her relationship with a place and the people within it. The poet then must rely on elements like unifying imagery, dialect, surrealism, and empathetic insights. With these elements, a poet can identify with …
Narrating Pain And Freedom: Place And Identity In Modern Syrian Poetry (1970s-1990s), Manar Shabouk
Narrating Pain And Freedom: Place And Identity In Modern Syrian Poetry (1970s-1990s), Manar Shabouk
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines poetry of Daʿd Ḥadād, Sanieh Ṣālḥ, and Ryāḍ Ṣālḥ al- Ḥsīn and the dominant role of place in their poetry. My dissertation is specifically interested in nonconformist modern Syrian poetry, especially women’s poetry and poetry focused on place and space. I approach my analysis from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective and hence will draw on theoretical frameworks from Arabic studies, poetry discourse, and theory of place. Drawing on these different critical frameworks, my research analyzes representations of modern Syrian poetry with a focus on the writing of women and the poetry of nonconformity in its expression of …
Twinless, Molly Mccully Brown
Twinless, Molly Mccully Brown
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This manuscript is concerned with the loss of my identical twin sister, who died when we were infants. The collection as a whole uses biographical experience to engage with issues of identity, grief, sisterhood, and selfhood. It’s interested in the ways that spiritual experience is borne out in the body, and in interrogating the manner in which we’re all made and marked by our own particular hieroglyphs of loss.
Belonging: A Place For, And In, Children’S Poetry A Hybrid Thesis Including Creative Works, Articles And Exegetical Discussion, Sally Murphy
Belonging: A Place For, And In, Children’S Poetry A Hybrid Thesis Including Creative Works, Articles And Exegetical Discussion, Sally Murphy
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This hybrid thesis is comprised of three creative works – two collections of poetry for children and a verse novel – as well as three journal articles examining aspects of children’s poetry, and exegetical discussion of the creative works and of key concepts influencing both the creative and discursive elements of the thesis.
The first creative work, All About Me, is a collection of poetry for early childhood readers and their carers. It consists of 20 poems, and as a finished manuscript mirrors the length of a picture book format collection. The poems explore and highlight aspects of the …