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This dissertation explores the phenomenon whereby a number of deceased Canadian women writers have had their lives utilized in subsequent works of fiction, drama, poetry, film, and biography. The dissertation gives this phenomenon a name—biographical influence—and argues that it…

This dissertation explores the political poetry of the modern Iraqi poet Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb in English translations. While there are certainly many other influential political poems of al-Sayyāb, I am interested in two of his most widely translated poems into English: The “Ra…