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Margaret Davidson Watson, Margaret Davidson Watson '46, Ann Harding
Margaret Davidson Watson, Margaret Davidson Watson '46, Ann Harding
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Margaret Davidson Watson is a Sigma Kappa and graduated with a degree in English Literature in 1946. She was interviewed at Westminster Village in Bloomington by the Director of Alumni Relations.
The Dark Places Of Psychology: Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's Major Novels, Linda Martin
The Dark Places Of Psychology: Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's Major Novels, Linda Martin
Honors Projects
In a 1919 essay, Virginia Woolf wrote that “[f]or the moderns ‘that,’ the point of interest, lies very likely in the dark places of psychology.” For Woolf, this assertion represented a career-long interest in the mind and consciousness; she made a project of describing and explaining the mystery of subjective experience in her fiction. In my paper, I argue that specific, turn-of-the-century psychologists’ and scholars’ theories of consciousness influenced and inspired Woolf to integrate their ideas into her fiction. Further, through an in-depth exploration of Woolf’s middle fiction (Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves), I demonstrate …
Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune
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The past twenty years in American poetry have given rise to middle space poetry, poetry—sometimes labeled “Third Way,” “Hybrid,” and/or “Elliptical”—that situates itself in the middle space between mainstream/lyric and avant-garde/experimental aesthetics. While work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry—for there is much shared ground for these aesthetics to explore—middle space thinking and poetry for the most part has been very problematic. Paradoxically, the problems of the middle space—especially as it is presented in its three key anthologies: Reginald Shepherd’s The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries …