Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Julie Sheehan. | Julie Sheehan | Robert Reeves | Roger Rosenblatt | Star Black.
Date
2011-05-01
Keywords
American Literature
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/70819
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
In my work, I explore forms of incantation and free-verse poetry in order to locate and interrogate the rhetorical, the metaphysical, and the corporeal border between linguistic behavior and sociocultural experience. Conceptually, my work is informed by Kristie S. Fleckenstein's research, particularly her theory of Bodysigns and Biorhetoric. Using this framework, I juxtapose the arrangement of physical/material forms and lexical/semiotic codes as each are translated through the human body and its changing environs. I'm interested in examining how human relationships evolve through time and experience, and how spatial identities, reflected through these temporal/experiential environs, inform and re-form our relationships with the natural world. It is this natural/rhetorical tethering that privileges orality over textuality in my work, as each of my poems reward recitation.
Recommended Citation
Propper, Tara, "Contact Zones" (2011). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 38.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/38