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Sizing up, scaling down: Dickinson, Moore, Bishop, Niedecker, Ryan

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This is a thesis about smallness and modern American poetry, as exemplified in and by the work of five poets: Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Lorine Niedecker, and Kay Ryan. I conceive smallness in two ways: first, the physical smallness of certain poems themselves; secondly, the way in which smallness is thematised, staged, and explored in poetry.

Being a suitably small-scale method of reading, close textual analysis is at the forefront of my approach. By buildin...

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Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Sub department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
St Edmund Hall
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Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Sub department:
English Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-5625-665X
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
Language:
English
Deposit date:
2020-09-14

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