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The Macaw in the Supermarket

Schoesler, Matthew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337085313

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2012, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
This dissertation consists of two parts: a book-length collection of poems and a critical article. The poems have been sorted into five sections, each of which focuses on a particular theme, mood, or form found throughout the entire collection. Beginning with explorations of familiar experiences and ending in a search for spiritual transcendence, these poems attempt to discover what is mysterious about the ordinary and what is ordinary about the mysterious. The critical article explores how the social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that occurred within the United States after World War II made T. S. Eliot’s concept of the historical sense newly relevant to poets like Richard Wilbur. Drawing on two studies of postwar poetry—Robert van Hallberg’s American Poetry and Culture: 1945-1980 and Edward Brunner’s Cold War Poetry—it closely examines selections from Wilbur’s poetry and criticism to determine how he refashioned Eliot’s idea for a broad American audience
Donald Bogen, PhD (Committee Chair)
John Drury, MFA (Committee Member)
Jay Twomey, PhD (Committee Member)
85 p.
American Literature
American Poetry; Richard Wilbur; T. S. Eliot; the historical sense; postwar; ;

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  • Schoesler, M. (2012). The Macaw in the Supermarket [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337085313

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schoesler, Matthew. The Macaw in the Supermarket. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337085313.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schoesler, Matthew. "The Macaw in the Supermarket." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337085313

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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