Main description: The volume is an innovative examination of the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global language and the many challenges and opportunities associated …
This dissertation redefines the relationship among American poetry, history, and minimalist art in the 1960s and 70s, by exploring the vital resonance of seventeenth-century figures and forms within each of those fields. I return to William Carlos Williams’s, Charles Olson’s, an…