The magic lantern: Modern poetry and the visual arts
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Title
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The magic lantern: Modern poetry and the visual arts
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:2d517620b452:11861
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identifier
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12498
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Creator
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Jockims, Trevor Laurence,
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Contributor
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Professor Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Modern literature | Film studies | Fine arts | Film | Philosophy | Photography | Poetics | Poetry | Thinking
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Abstract
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This is essentially a dissertation about the evolution of the relationship between visual and verbal representation. As I see it, this is largely a movement from paragone to symbiosis. Along the way, the relation among these technically divergent forms shows itself to be a very porous border. Through a methodology that incorporates pertinent perspectives from continental philosophies, detailed readings of poetry from several traditions, and a genealogical approach to the history of the idea of the visual and the verbal, this dissertation will show how the deepened complexities that innovations in the visual arts---particularly technological innovations such as photography and film---led to mutually enriching responses in the verbal arts. Not only does the poetics of modernism come to embrace the visual, but it in fact absorbs into itself many of the capacities long held to be the terrain of the visual. Rather than being an appropriative and final paragonal urge, I read this aspect of modernist poetics as one that shows its poetry to be responsive to changes outside of its own medium in remarkably sensitive and complex ways.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
