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"Tangible Things": Susan Howe's Interdisciplinary Materials and Complex Kinships: Five Sequences

Porritt, Betsy (2021) "Tangible Things": Susan Howe's Interdisciplinary Materials and Complex Kinships: Five Sequences. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.93203) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:93203)

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Abstract

This thesis uses Susan Howe's poetry, visual art and sound collaborations as a leaping-off point for my own explorations in poetry. "Tangible Things" takes as its starting point the materiality of Howe's work and examines it in the context of post-war capitalism and Neo-colonialism. The research asks, what can reading poetry through the lens of materials teach us about the conditions in which language is produced? The five following sequences are my own experiments in making visible networks of kinship, power and narrative hierarchy from the position of a feminist living and working in late-capitalist society. These interlocking poems provide spaces in which to address, re-think and make poetry with, the multi-layered voices that structure the present.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD))
Thesis advisor: Smith, Simon
Thesis advisor: Virtanen, Juha
DOI/Identification number: 10.22024/UniKent/01.02.93203
Uncontrolled keywords: contemporary poetry; Susan Howe; post-war; visual-art; sound-poem; sound-art; kinship; experiment; materiality; interdisciplinary; American; late-capitalism; feminism; LANGUAGE
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
SWORD Depositor: System Moodle
Depositing User: System Moodle
Date Deposited: 15 Feb 2022 17:10 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2022 09:11 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/93203 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Porritt, Betsy.

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