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Daphne Marlatt's Salmon Texts Going To Swimming/Jumping The Margins/Barriers, Brenda Joy Carr

Digitized Theses

Entitled "Daphne Marlatt's Salmon Texts {dollar}\to{dollar} Swimming/Jumping the Margins/Barriers," my dissertation, the first full-length study of Marlatt's life/text, examines her works, up to and including How Hug a Stone, through the lens of her present feminist poetics. The first of three sections, "Translation and Transgression {dollar}\to{dollar} A Writing Woman Writing 'Woman'," situates Daphne Marlatt's life-writing in the doubled context of a masculinist postmodern tradition, in which she has links with poets affiliated with Black Mountain College, and an emerging feminist countertradition, in which she has affinities with such precursors as Gertrude Stein, and with such contemporaries as Nicole Brossard. My …

Some Aspects Of Browning's Satire: Browning, Donne, And Mandeville, Barbara Ruth Ryerse

Digitized Theses

The purpose of this study is to show that some aspects of Browning's satire clarify his use of tradition by indicating his readiness to appropriate and adapt satiric forms of ancient origin to his own poetic purposes. A main focus on religious, aesthetic, and satiric elements in Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day leads to a comparison of this poem with the Satyres of John Donne that were written in the tradition of formal verse satire. Similarly, the later poem With Bernard de Mandeville is compared to Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees and the tradition of Menippean satire. These comparisons reveal common …

Los And The Science Of The Elohim, John Michael Smith

Digitized Theses

This study re-examines what have been commonplace propositions for Blake criticism: that Los is Blake's chief symbol for the activity of imagination in the prophecies; that the theme of Los's labours, his attempt in Golgonooza to practise "the Science of the Elohim," serves as a focus for Blake's critique of, and alternative to, the science of "Bacon, Newton and Locke"; and that Blake's opposition to the latter stems from his rejection of its "Cartesian" foundation, its dualism of mind and body, subjective and objective realms. This study begins by attempting to show that, while we have agreed to place Los …

Layers Of Identity: Multiple Voices And Contradictory Patterns In Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender", Marianne Micros

Digitized Theses

Spenser, in his Shepheardes Calender, created "a Calender for euery yeare," but the calendar of each speaker, and possibly of every reader, varies based on a person's attitude towards his or her place in the natural and cosmic cycles. Although many critics have tried to impose regularity of structure and content on Spenser's poem, and have attempted to define Spenser's viewpoint, it seems likely that Spenser was not attempting to present one consistent, inflexible viewpoint.;I propose that The Shepheardes Calender is a work consisting of many voices, not only the voices of the fictional characters within the work, but also …

Copper Rings, Andrea Hollander Budy

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8

A Cloud, Dewitt Clinton

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 13

Meaning, Carl Gottesman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Games, Blair Hobbs

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

The Disappearing, Barbara Lucas

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

Jenny Marx, Dying, Robert Chute

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

Harp Instructor, Blair Hobbs

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24

A Woman Speaks To Her Past, Janet Mcadams

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

The Monologue Of The Last Performing Tattooed Lady, Daniel James Sundahl

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 46-47

Mr. Carlos Gets A Midnight Phone Call, Janet Mcadams

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

The Curiosity Shop, Louis Phillips

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 34-35

Salvador Dali Crosses The Road, Dennis Saleh

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 42-43

Discipline, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 44

The Sky Is Guilty, Steven Ford Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

Fable For Slovens, Ellen Dudis

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 13

Anniversary, Martha M. Vertreace

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 35-36

Mon Coeur Qui Bat, Tom Koontz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

The Hair Wreath: Mary Wilkins Freeman's Artist Fiction, Norma Johnsen

Doctoral Dissertations

Mary Wilkins Freeman uses an artist protagonist to explore conflicts and issues she herself faced as a woman writing in male-defined culture. Her artists make art in the content of a highly developed, expressive, sometime subversive, and always deeply personal women's art tradition. Their singing, their poems and stories, and their decorative "household arts" speak a complex poetic language.

The Mary Wilkins artist defines self through her art. In "A New England Nun" the artist preserves her artistic identity by retreating to her solitary pleasures of household arranging, sewing, and distilling. Other household artists or architects assert their identity by …

La Programacion Espacio/Temporal Del Relato., M. Ellen Blossman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

La programacion espacio/temporal es el conjunto de dos elementos: el elemento espacial, que implica la organizacion del proceso por el cual se enlazan los espacios discretos mediante la sintagmatica; y el elemento temporal, que implica la representacion cronologica de la organizacion narrativa. A veces dicha representacion cronologica no coincide con el orden logico de los acontecimientos. Esto puede ocurrir por la intercalacion de la metaficcion en la ficcion. Tanto la ficcion como la metaficcion se componen de esa unidad espacio/temporal, aunque no siempre los dos elementos de esta unidad se presenten explicitamente en la superficie del texto. La programacion espacio/temporal …

Gongora's "Soledades" As A Problem Of Language And Meaning In Seventeenth Century Spain., Ted Eustace Mcvay Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The exploration of the epistemological assumptions necessary for the interpretation of Luis de Gongora's "Soledades" is an area of critical attention that has gone virtually neglected since his 1927 "rehabilitation." This study offers an approach to understanding the long, difficult poem and the bitter critical reaction against it in the context of the seventeenth-century shift of predominant epistemologies discussed by Michel Foucault in The Order of Things. An approach that focuses on how the world is known is most appropriate to a study of the "Soledades" for several reasons, one being that those writers who attacked the poem did so …

Kathleen, Les Bridges

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

In The Eyes Of A Peacock, John Bradley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

Sketch, Theodore Haddin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

Decrescendo, Dennis Saleh

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

Penn, The Archivist, Michael Rosen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 37-38

Trailing The Cry, R S. Carlson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7