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Hello Nothingness

Stiefel, Eric C.
http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6030-9235
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1679310315492228

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This dissertation is divided into two sections: an essay titled “Poetic Function Between Fact and Fiction: Examples from Six Contemporary American Poets” and a book manuscript titled Hello Nothingness. “Poetic Function Between Fact and Fiction: Examples from Six Contemporary American Poets” analyzes six examples from contemporary American lyric poetry to highlight the tension between fictionality and factuality in broader trends in lyric poetry. While this poetological tension between fictionality and factuality can be understood to exist broadly across the span of lyric poetry, this essay highlights selections from contemporary American lyric poetry to demonstrate the rhetorical and functional effects made possible by this interplay in lyric poetry. Hello Nothingness is composed of lyric poems that interrogate the uncertainty between perception and lived experience. The poems in the manuscript juxtapose high lyricism with language meant to mimic interior thought patterns, often making use of ekphrastic, surrealist, and/or confessional modes to explore their subject matter. The manuscript pays close attention to the formal composition of its free verse poems, and the poems themselves often combine artifacts of personal experience with disjunctive, lyrical expression to explore the poems’ concerns.
Mark Halliday (Advisor)
132 p.
Literature
Poetry; Genre; Ekphrasis; Surrealism; Surrealist poetry; post-modern poetry; lyric poetry

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  • Stiefel, E. C. (2023). Hello Nothingness [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1679310315492228

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stiefel, Eric. Hello Nothingness. 2023. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1679310315492228.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stiefel, Eric. "Hello Nothingness." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1679310315492228

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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