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Collect

Harksen, Jacob Carl
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1371520225

Abstract Details

2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This collection of poems seeks to explore the individual's relation to the self and others, and between the lyric "I" and forms of collectivity, under the duress of 21st-century capitalism. The poems respond to certain political and economic pressures, including namely debt, and assert that poetry can be a meaningful aid in, if not site of, resistance to those pressures. The collection seeks to enact in poetry a political content, which is typically the province of a highly theorized discourse, by direct treatment of the lived world of feeling and belief. A narrative arc is developed over the course of the collection that tracks the radicalization of those feelings and beliefs in the life of an individual as they attempt to make answer to the pressures of capital in a variety of modes and forms.
cris cheek, PhD (Committee Chair)
Catherine Wagner, PhD (Committee Member)
Keith Tuma, PhD (Committee Member)
70 p.
American Literature; Fine Arts; Language Arts; Literature; Modern Literature; Performing Arts
Poetry; poems; lyric; collective; collectivity; debt; money; capital; capitalism; economy; politics; political; resistance; revolution; violence; crime; conceptual

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  • Harksen, J. C. (2013). Collect [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1371520225

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Harksen, Jacob. Collect. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1371520225.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Harksen, Jacob. "Collect." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1371520225

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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