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“Encyclopedic Form in the Modern French Novel” explores three modern encyclopedic texts and argues for the novelistic potential of their (re)arrangements of knowledge so as to change, distort, de- or re-contextualize it. Inspired by the French literary group Oulipo, founded in 1…

This thesis consists of a critical portion which traces the relationship of music and poetry throughout history, analyzes the songs of 1960s musicians under the lenses of poetry movements (Jim Morrison as meditative poetry, Leonard Cohen as confessional poetry, and Townes Van Za…