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Zona, Zachary Williams
Zona, Zachary Williams
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems written between 2011 and 2019. Zona the title of the book, meditates on themes of precarity, loss, imagination, and transformation. Drawing from both the Surrealist and Deep Image traditions, the book comments on life and aesthetic experience under late-stage capitalism.
The Overview Effect, Todd Osborne
The Overview Effect, Todd Osborne
Dissertations
The following poems were completed by the author between September 2015 and February 2019.
Probably Nothing To Worry About, Jennifer Bravo
Probably Nothing To Worry About, Jennifer Bravo
Dissertations
These are (allegedly) poems.
"We Were Framed To Fail And Die": The Ethics And Poetics Of Mortality In The Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Brett C. Beasley
"We Were Framed To Fail And Die": The Ethics And Poetics Of Mortality In The Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Brett C. Beasley
Dissertations
This dissertation is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject of mortality in Gerard Manley Hopkins's writings. Hopkins's writings on this subject are broad and varied: while still a student at Oxford, Hopkins became fascinated by martyrs; later, as a priest he would go on to write movingly about the deaths of parishioners in his care and would extol the virtues of soldiers, or "daredeaths" as he refers to them in one poem; finally, toward the end of his life, Hopkins became preoccupied with the role our own mortality plays in shaping our life, perspective, and choices. While previous scholars …
The Art Of Morals: A Study Of The Influence Of Musicopoetic Arts On Moral Development In Plato's Laws, Daniele Manni
The Art Of Morals: A Study Of The Influence Of Musicopoetic Arts On Moral Development In Plato's Laws, Daniele Manni
Dissertations
This dissertation's primary goal is to give a detailed account of the employment of musicopoetic arts in the process of moral development in Plato's Laws. Its secondary objective is to propose an explanation for the different evaluations of musicopoetic arts at the end of the Republic and in the Laws.
To achieve the first goal I analyze the elements of the soul involved in the moral psychology of the Laws, as sketched in the famous image of the marionette; I maintain that the process of habit formation is the pivotal aspect of this moral psychology; I indicate that Plato restricts …
The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow
The Body Mends Itself, Hannah Elizabeth Dow
Dissertations
The following poems were completed by the author between September 2014 and April 2017.
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
Dissertations
The following poems and essays were completed by the author between October 2012 and April 2016.
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Dissertations
Material Matters is a collection of original poems written by Thomas G. Holmes, while a doctoral student at The University of Southern Mississippi. The poems explore the materiality of writing.
The Knowledge Weapon: Ways Of Knowing, Annette Christine Boehm
The Knowledge Weapon: Ways Of Knowing, Annette Christine Boehm
Dissertations
This collection of poems explores the language of knowledge and instruction. While it can provide a sense of security, what we are given as ‘knowledge’ is frequently unreliable or even misleading, and used much like a weapon.
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
Dissertations
This Animal is a poetic narrative about humans’ animalistic instincts and how we use them to navigate our relationships with others and the world around us.
Anthologizing Modernism: New Verse Anthologies, 1913-53, Warren Scott Cheney
Anthologizing Modernism: New Verse Anthologies, 1913-53, Warren Scott Cheney
Dissertations
The history of the anthology form goes back thousands of years to what is often called the Greek Anthology--a modern term and not the title of one ancient work. Though there are fragments of earlier collections, Meleager of Gadara's Stephanos (or Garland) is the first known poetry anthology and dates to approximately 100 BC. Anthologies of English poetry begin in 1557 with Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnettes, commonly known as "Totell's Miscellany." It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century, however, that single-volume poetry anthologies became popular. This development changed the methods editors used and the constraints they …
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
The Pine Effect, Andrea Kay Spofford
Dissertations
This dissertation includes original poems written during my time at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Travel For Agoraphobics, John Allen Berry
Travel For Agoraphobics, John Allen Berry
Dissertations
Travel for Agoraphobics is a collection of fifty poems accompanied by an introduction. Using both traditional and experimental forms, the poems are in conversation with each other about loneliness and isolation in an age of technologies designed to bring us closer together. The introduction addresses the influence of other writers and the process of writing and revising.
Running In Absentia, Jeffrey David Tucker
Running In Absentia, Jeffrey David Tucker
Dissertations
Running in Absentia is a collection of short fiction, short-short fiction (also known as flash fiction), and poetry, with a critical introduction.
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Dissertations
The following creative dissertation is a book of 57 poems.
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 …
Night Field Anecdote, William Garrett Wright
Night Field Anecdote, William Garrett Wright
Dissertations
Night Field Anecdote is an original collection of forty-one poems accompanied by a critical introduction.
Issaquah In January, Daniel Walter Morris
Issaquah In January, Daniel Walter Morris
Dissertations
ISSAQUAH IN JANUARY is an original collection of fifty-one poems accompanied by a preface.
"The Mirror Turn Lamp": Natural-Supernatural In Yeats, Cleston Lee Armstrong Iii
"The Mirror Turn Lamp": Natural-Supernatural In Yeats, Cleston Lee Armstrong Iii
Dissertations
The supernatural portrayed in Yeats represents a carefully constructed convergence of all major themes in his canon. Yeats's first exposure to myth, the supernatural, and magic occurs in the 1890s when he worked as an editor of William Blake and Irish fairy lore. This experience at once inspired Yeats to explore mysticism and to shroud his own collected works in mystery. With the onset of modernity and the age of criticism this period ushered in, however, he was unable to capitalize on the spiritual as first imagined. As mere aesthetic, peculiar illuminations of the immaterial world Yeats so intensely sought …
For The Stadium Vendor, Richard Andrew Boada
For The Stadium Vendor, Richard Andrew Boada
Dissertations
FOR THE STADIUM VENDOR is an original collection of fifty poems accompanied by a preface.
Petticoat Government: Poems And Essays, Tiffany Ann Noonan
Petticoat Government: Poems And Essays, Tiffany Ann Noonan
Dissertations
Petticoat Government is a collection of poems and essays that draw upon the varied lexicons of science, mythology, sports, literature, travel, art, fashion, and popular culture in an attempt to understand what deliminates womanhood. Using a mix of traditional and contemporary forms, these texts seek to complicate the myriad—and often conflicting—models of femaleness and the female body.
The Naming Of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith
The Naming Of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith
Dissertations
The Naming of Strays is a collection of poems that deal with issues of place, gender power, sexual fidelity, and transience. While the majority of the poems are written in free verse, the dissertation also features a handful of formal poems including sonnets, sestinas, and prose poetry. n
Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt
Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt
Dissertations
This collection of poetry and essays explores the nature of marriage, time, and human experience. Many of the pieces center on the author's experience as the wife of a soldier deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Others use scientific and mathematical imagery to illustrate spiritual concepts.
We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley
We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley
Dissertations
My collection of poems and essays, We Become Delicate Boats, takes inspiration from a broad range of sources that shift into each other: paintings, pop culture, literary figures, dreams, relationships, faith, family, history. For example, some poems throw together unexpected bedfellows, like Kafka's Gregor Samsa and Marie Antoinette; others are anecdotal, like one that describes going on a blind date with a man who actually turns out to be blind, some re-imagine stories we already know, like one in the voice of Medusa, talking about which occasions call for her various snake "wigs." Although quite a few pieces are playful, …
Parliament Of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles
Parliament Of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles
Dissertations
In this work of poems, I experiment with different forms (villanelles, sonnets, cinquains, sestinas, prose poems, and free verse) to create an original accompanying space for the existence of my speakers. I also use many of my poems to illustrate moments, feelings, and scenarios of relationships as well as place new perspectives on poems based on the work of other poets. Parliament of Owls provides an array of vistas on relationships, loneliness, and triumph.
Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett
Hatchery Of Tongues, Michael Wallace Bassett
Dissertations
Hatchery of Tongues is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical introduction.