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Fiction As Autobiography, Autobiography As Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" And "Dust Tracks On A Road.", Cathy L. Morgan
Fiction As Autobiography, Autobiography As Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" And "Dust Tracks On A Road.", Cathy L. Morgan
Theses & Honors Papers
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The Divided Self: Five Female Heroes In Nineteenth Century Fiction, Jayne Thomas Pinelli
The Divided Self: Five Female Heroes In Nineteenth Century Fiction, Jayne Thomas Pinelli
Theses & Honors Papers
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The Strength Of Hoffman's Women, Martha Mcguire Hundley
The Strength Of Hoffman's Women, Martha Mcguire Hundley
Theses & Honors Papers
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"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick
"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick
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Can poetry "make new" the world? Ezra Pound thought so. In "Cantico del Sole" he said: "The thought of what America would be like/ If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles me in my sleep" (Personae 183). He came to write an 815 page poem called The Cantos in which he presents "fragments" drawn from the literature and documents of the past in an attempt to build a new world, "a paradiso terreste" (The Cantos 802). This may be seen as either a noble gesture or sheer egotism.
Pound once called The Cantos the "tale of the …