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TYPEWRITERS AND COOKING SMELLS: ASSOCIATED SENSIBILITIES IN
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, T.S. ELIOT, AND JORIE GRAHAM
by
Amy Schroeder
___________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Amy Schroeder
Object Description
| Title | Typewriters and cooking smells: associated sensibilites in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham |
| Author | Schroeder, Amy |
| Author email | ASchro1432@aol.com; scroeder@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-06 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Muske-Dukes, Carol McCabe, Susan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
St. John, David Becker, Marjorie |
| Abstract | "Typewriters and Cooking Smells: The Associated Sensibilities of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham" examines theories of the poetic imagination. Positing a connection between critical thinking and emotional feeling, this dissertation examines how poetry is created by an organic blending of the two. Looking in particular at poets who are invested in the intersection of philosophy and poetry, the dissertation argues that when poetry is being made, poets engage in a particular kind of thinking; usefully, it has been called "lyric thinking" by the scholar Robert Von Hallberg. The dissertation explores lyric thinking through the periods of Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism, thus considering how cultural, historical, and theoretical changes have impacted poetic creation. Coleridge's notions of the Primary and Secondary Imagination are used as key concepts for understanding early theories of the imagination; his idea of the "esemplastic" is also a critical term for the dissertation. A genealogy is then traced from Coleridge to Eliot through to Graham, looking at how the Romantic understanding of how the imagination functions continues to affect poets today. Eliot's idea of dissociation of sensibility is also central to the argument; the dissertation avers that, contra Eliot, in true instances of poetic creation, there is no dissociation of sensibility. Rather, an absolute association of thought and feeling occur. The dissertation comprises a critical thesis and a creative manuscript; the creative manuscript, titled The Sleep Hotel, is contained as an appendix. The poems in the manuscript address many of the same issues as the critical thesis: they are metapoetic, attempting to trace the mind in the act of making the poem. |
| Keyword | Samuel Taylor Coleridge; T.S. Eliot; Jorie Graham; poetics; theories of imagination; creativity |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2376 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Schroeder, Amy |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Schroeder-3116 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Schroeder-3116.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | TYPEWRITERS AND COOKING SMELLS: ASSOCIATED SENSIBILITIES IN SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, T.S. ELIOT, AND JORIE GRAHAM by Amy Schroeder ___________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Amy Schroeder |
