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SIMULATIONS/SHAPE-SHIFTING SURREALISM:
RIKKI DUCORNET’S POETRY OF FEMINIST INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by
Siel Ju
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Siel Ju
Object Description
| Title | Simulations/shape-shifting surrealism: Rikki Ducornet's poetry of feminist intersubjectivity |
| Author | Ju, Siel |
| Author email | greenlagirl@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-04-07 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-05-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McCabe, Susan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
St. John, David Becker, Marjorie |
| Abstract | This dissertation consists of two components. The first is a collection of poems, collectively titled Simulations, which seek to examine the liminal spaces between the reader and the writer, text and meaning. I explore the anxieties behind the impetus, both on the part of the reader and the writer, to control the written text by ascribing meaning, form, plot or structure to it. These poems often directly engage with the texts of other writers, ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Darwin to Lewis Carroll, playing with ideas of authorship and authorial intent. By emphasizing the reader s power over the text, this work is especially concerned with exploring reading as a method of rewriting.; The second component is a meditative long essay on the work of poet, novelist, and visual artist Rikki Ducornet. I examine Ducornet's poetry as an extension and reformulation of the original surrealist theories and techniques as conceived and practiced by early male members of the surrealist movement. Ducornet's poems, for example, with their many images of mutilated and maimed female bodies, recall Hans Bellmer's Poupées, often criticized for objectifying women's bodies and eroticizing female pain. Yet Ducornet uses these same surrealist methodologies as tools for socio-political critique, to re-envision female agency and intersubjectivity. In exploring Ducornet's work, I will also trace a genealogy of feminist writers and artists who co-opt and reinvigorate surrealist techniques with a political and artistic impetus, underscoring surrealism's relevance and utility today both as an aesthetic and political practice. |
| Keyword | poetry |
| 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 |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1247 |
| Rights | Ju, Siel |
| 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-Ju-20080528 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Ju-20080528.pdf |
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| Full text | SIMULATIONS/SHAPE-SHIFTING SURREALISM: RIKKI DUCORNET’S POETRY OF FEMINIST INTERSUBJECTIVITY by Siel Ju A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Siel Ju |
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