Trauma in Lyric: A National Reading of 20th Century Postwar Lyric
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2012-04-17
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Vanderbilt University
Abstract
Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical āIā in order to theorize lyric as a medium for communicating national trauma.
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English Department Honors Thesis. Merrill Moore Co-winner 2012, Best Honors Thesis
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lyric poetry, 20th-C British poetry, 20th-C German Poetry, literary theory, comparative literary analysis