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Speech is a Mouth, Text is a Body

Ponto, Jessica J.

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2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, English: Creative Writing.
This manuscript contains visual poems that use condensed written texts and other visual elements, such as color, line, erasure, positive space, and negative space, to create an emphasis on the visual materiality of language. These poems address conceptualizations of the female body, consciousness, violence, liberation, inclusion, and emphasis. They are the result of manipulations of simple word processing programs (most often Microsoft Word) and follow a poetic tradition of "text as image," or interdependency of verbal, spatial, and visual elements that began in prehistory.
Catherine Wagner, PhD (Committee Chair)
cris cheek, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian Roley, MFA (Committee Member)
54 p.

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  • Ponto, J. J. (2008). Speech is a Mouth, Text is a Body [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218076653

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ponto, Jessica. Speech is a Mouth, Text is a Body. 2008. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218076653.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ponto, Jessica. "Speech is a Mouth, Text is a Body." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218076653

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)