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In the work of experimental poets and formalists, ex-Communists and African American people’s poets, queer feminists and veterans of the Spanish Civil War, Radical Afterlives traces poetic modernism’s “radical afterlives” from the Great Depression to Civil Rights. A generation o…

What does it mean to listen—and how can works of literature teach us about listening? Of the four modes of language—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—that together constitute the “language arts” as a curriculum area in secondary English education, listening is relatively…

This thesis is an analysis of class as it is represented in select works published and released from Britain during the long ‘80s: a period ranging from the 1980s to the mid-1990s. I will be analyzing the poem v. written by the British author Tony Harrison, as well as songs on t…

This dissertation retraces the history of English lyric in the long eighteenth century (c. 1650–1790). It departs from the critical consensus that the “rise” of lyric in this period coincided with the elevation of the ode and its poetic conventions to preeminence, further genera…