Burns, William;
(2025)
The Poetics of Vocation: Modern American Poetry and the University, from Eliot to Ashbery.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the dialectic between critical discourse and creative expression in twentieth-century American poetry, in order to explore the latter’s relationship to what is now its primary site of production and reception: the modern research university. It could thus be alternatively described as an effort to retell critical and institutional history from the poet’s point of view, assessing how five poets in particular both engaged with and resisted the university as an institution, and how the academy in turn impacted the character of their work.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | The Poetics of Vocation: Modern American Poetry and the University, from Eliot to Ashbery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2025. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218500 |
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