Thesis
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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Authors
Contributors
+ Bevis, M
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Sub department:
English Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-5625-665X
Funding
+ Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
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Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100015505
Funding agency for:
Chen, CY
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-14
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