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Mariam, WASSIF Louka.
"Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2018, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59589 
► "Poisoned Vestments" traces the afterlife of classical rhetoric in key works of prose, poetry, and drama in the long eighteenth century, contending that Milton, Rousseau,…
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▼ "Poisoned Vestments" traces the afterlife of classical rhetoric in key works of prose, poetry, and drama in the long eighteenth century, contending that Milton, Rousseau, Wordsworth and Byron engaged in meaningful dialogue with the rhetorical tradition through recurring figures of dress and nakedness. As dress, like language, was a critical feature of organized society, the comparison of rhetorical language to dress in the classical tradition gave expression to some of the ways in which figures of speech served as ordering principles giving legible shape to ideas, but at the same time entailed a host of ideological implications that the Romantics were not the first to find troubling. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Rousseau and Wordsworth amplified the arguments of earlier pastoral and primitivist traditions by insisting that the social order that dress and eloquence represented was inherently corrupt and disfiguring. Yet in spite of their apparently anti-rhetorical stance, they did not abandon the classical tradition: by reacting against the specific comparison of language to the dress of thought, they actually entered an ongoing, trans-historical conversation about the relationship between meaning and expression, and the ways in which this relationship developed in the inescapable context of social determination. In another turn of the wheel in Romantic debates about rhetoric, Byron reacted against Wordsworthean and Rousseauvian "primitivism" and set the agenda of re-instating the civilizing "law" of literature in the realm of English letters. However, his efforts remained inconsistent because he sought to restore the "rules" while at the same time harnessing the sublime and the illimitable and embracing the protean transformations that fashion permitted. Informed by the critical discourses of the history of rhetoric, deconstruction, and cultural studies, "Poisoned Vestments" maps how these leading writers brought the material conditions of life at the turn of the nineteenth century to bear on long-standing questions of rhetorical form.
Advisors/Committee Members: Caruth, Cathy (chair), Chase, Cynthia (committee member), Mann, Jenny C (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Comparative Literature; History of Rhetoric; Milton and the Romantics; Romanticism; The French Revolution; Word and Image; French literature; Fashion
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Mariam, W. L. (2018). "Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59589
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mariam, WASSIF Louka. “"Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59589.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mariam, WASSIF Louka. “"Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mariam WL. "Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59589.
Council of Science Editors:
Mariam WL. "Poisoned Vestments": Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Material Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59589
Cornell University
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Young-Bryant, Alan.
Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2011, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30750
► Perverse Form and Victorian Lyric examines a tradition of lyric expressivity, exploring connections between language, subjectivity, and agency. By attending to salient formal issues in…
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▼ Perverse Form and Victorian Lyric examines a tradition of lyric expressivity, exploring connections between language, subjectivity, and agency. By attending to salient formal issues in the work of three Victorian poets for whom pattern becomes persona-Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins-the dissertation argues for a poetic counter-tradition defined in opposition to major aesthetic commonplaces of the nineteenth and twentieth century. More particularly, this study shows how the voice of lyric-commonly regarded as the expression of a central self-is, in late Victorian writing, not the product of an organizing subjectivity, but the effect of apparently derivative formal technique. Rather than being grounded in the individual subject, the rhetorical and formal urgencies of Victorian poetry create situations of utterance where human characteristics, such as feeling, thought, and desire, hang on patterns of sound and line-what is here called perverse form.
Advisors/Committee Members: Culler, Jonathan Dwight (chair), Fried, Debra (committee member), Chase, Cynthia (committee member), Hanson, Ellis (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Victorian Poetry; Lyric; Formalism
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APA (6th Edition):
Young-Bryant, A. (2011). Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30750
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Young-Bryant, Alan. “Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30750.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Young-Bryant, Alan. “Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Young-Bryant A. Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30750.
Council of Science Editors:
Young-Bryant A. Perverse Form And Victorian Lyric. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30750
Cornell University
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Zukovic, Brad.
Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37025
► This study examines figures that modify the meta-language that defines, rationalizes and constrains them. Reflexive figures interrupt meaning-and incorporate that interruption as meaning. They index…
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▼ This study examines figures that modify the meta-language that defines, rationalizes and constrains them. Reflexive figures interrupt meaning-and incorporate that interruption as meaning. They index power (rather than figuring it), setting up the self-reference of tropological language as a central problem in the poetry of William Wordsworth and William Blake, inherited by John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons. For these poets, reflexive figures stage an encounter of figural imagination (or language) with power, conceived as external to language, or alternatively, as the creativity of language itself. Such figures situate the renewal, regeneration or renovation of language and imagination, and in late 20th century literary theory, they have become integral to notions of the linguistic turn, and the irrational signature of power produced when language folds onto itself. The study reads key passages of Blake's major and minor prophecies, along with his shorter poems, major sections of Wordsworth's Prelude and ! poetry spanning the careers of Ashbery and Ammons. I conclude by examining the abstract algebra of Wordsworth's friend, the seminal nineteenth century scientist William Rowan Hamilton, and its implications for contemporary notions of the "language of language." !
Advisors/Committee Members: Chase, Cynthia (chair), Culler, Jonathan Dwight (committee member), Gilbert, Roger Stephen (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: reflexive; figurality; blake; wordsworth; ashbery; ammons
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Zukovic, B. (2014). Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37025
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zukovic, Brad. “Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37025.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zukovic, Brad. “Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Zukovic B. Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37025.
Council of Science Editors:
Zukovic B. Reflexive Figurality In The Poetry Of Blake, Wordsworth, Ashbery And A.R. Ammons. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37025
Cornell University
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Briley, Alexis.
HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2014, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37012
► Hölderlin and the Measure of Enthusiasm argues for a new understanding of measure (Maß) in German lyric poetry around 1800, focusing on the work of…
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▼ Hölderlin and the Measure of Enthusiasm argues for a new understanding of measure (Maß) in German lyric poetry around 1800, focusing on the work of Friedrich Hölderlin. Rhythmically and syntactically, Hölderlin's poetry resonates with the tradition that associates lyric expressivity and inspiration, or Begeisterung. Within this context, most famously exemplified in Goethe's Erlebnislyrik and Klopstock's hymns in freie Rhythmen, poetry is more "free" for being more irregular. While Hölderlin's poetry assimilates the sense of Begeisterung as poetic inspiration, I argue, it abandons the mimetic relationship between form and subjectivity implied in the work of these earlier poets. Instead of evoking unfettered subjective expression, Begeisterung assumes its own kind of measure-what Hölderlin calls das Maas Begeisterung. Although Hölderlin is among the most central figures in modern literary criticism, or perhaps because of this, his work tests the limits of conventional critical methods. While previous critics have sought to define Hölderlin's measure by looking at his poetological writings or by tracing the instances of key phrases or concepts, I am concerned with the implications of measure for Hölderlin's poetic practice. Through a close analysis of individual poems and translations, I examine the senses of measure underlying the composition-and decomposition-of the work.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gilgen, Peter (chair), Culler, Jonathan Dwight (committee member), Chase, Cynthia (committee member), Waite, Geoffrey Carter W (committee member), Fleming, Paul A. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Hölderlin; Measure; Enthusiasm
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Briley, A. (2014). HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37012
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Briley, Alexis. “HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37012.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Briley, Alexis. “HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Briley A. HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37012.
Council of Science Editors:
Briley A. HöLderlin And The Measure Of Enthusiasm. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/37012
Cornell University
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Robbins, John.
Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2013, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34261
► This project focuses on women playwrights of the English Romantic period. It argues that they engaged powerfully with a breadth of issues in ways inflected…
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▼ This project focuses on women playwrights of the English Romantic period. It argues that they engaged powerfully with a breadth of issues in ways inflected and informed by their gender in order to rewrite inherited narratives of politics, culture, economics, history, and philosophy. Its central claim is that these women fundamentally reworked the concept of absence, transforming it from one of lack to a way of displaying the silences, subjugations, and sacrifices of women in English culture at large. By examining these writers, contemporary scholars can uncover new methods of resistance to forms of broad cultural oppression that continue to persist today. Ultimately, the goal of the dissertation is to contribute to the larger social project of recovering historically marginalized voices in order to better appreciate their contributions to contemporary society.
Advisors/Committee Members: Parker, Alan R. (chair), Lorenz, Philip A (committee member), Chase, Cynthia (committee member), Burroughs, Catherine (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Romanticism; Drama; Women
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Robbins, J. (2013). Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34261
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Robbins, John. “Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34261.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Robbins, John. “Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Robbins J. Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34261.
Council of Science Editors:
Robbins J. Negative Spaces: British Women Playwrights And The Staging Of Absence, 1770-1830. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34261
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