Poetic Dehiscence: Readings at the ‘Upper Limit’

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dc.contributor.advisorFeld, Andrewen_US
dc.contributor.authorStreim, Alexen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-29T18:02:44Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-29
dc.date.submitted2015en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis essay uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of phenomenological ‘deshiscence’ to perform readings of poems that happen at or around Zukofsky’s ‘upper limit.’ ‘Dehiscence,’ for Merleau-Ponty, describes an interface of subjective and objective modes of experience; in the essay I explore some of the ways in which poems enact dehiscence in language. I do this by close-reading particular syntactical and musical structures in which aural and semantic sense is doubled or conflicted. The techniques described include polyrhythm, counterpoint, and puns. Poets include Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, Hart Crane, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jennifer Scappettone, and Joyelle McSweeney.en_US
dc.embargo.lift2020-09-02T18:02:44Z
dc.embargo.termsRestrict to UW for 5 years -- then make Open Accessen_US
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dc.identifier.otherStreim_washington_0250O_14650.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/33833
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the individual authors.en_US
dc.subjectCounterpoint; Phenomenology; Poetics; Poetry; Pun; Sounden_US
dc.subject.otherFine artsen_US
dc.subject.otherLiteratureen_US
dc.subject.otherAestheticsen_US
dc.subject.otherenglishen_US
dc.titlePoetic Dehiscence: Readings at the ‘Upper Limit’en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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