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THE MOMENT OF LOOKING DOWN
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OBERLIN, KEVIN ARTHUR
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Year and Degree
2007, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : English and Comparative Literature.
Abstract
The Moment of Looking Down is a collection of poems crafted into book form over the course of my studies. The first and fourth sections focus on poems dealing with fidelity, mortality, and loss. The second section explores memory and perception through a series of poems that use a long, single-line stanza. The third section is a narrative sonnet sequence that follows the brief rise of a young jazz singer as she struggles to reconcile her understanding of herself with the perceptions of those listening to her. The dissertation concludes with the essay “Manmade: Masculinity in the Poetry of Tony Hoagland, Mark Halliday, and Rodney Jones,” which contends that these poets express the male body and male sexuality with a troubled awareness of the complicated political, cultural, and psychological position of American masculinity at the end of the twentieth century, and that their poetry moves beyond contemporary feminist and masculinity studies theorists by exploring new masculinities through directly accessible language.
Committee
Dr. Don Bogen (Advisor)
Pages
111 p.
Subject Headings
Literature, American
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OBERLIN, K. A. (2007).
THE MOMENT OF LOOKING DOWN
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186430895
APA Style (7th edition)
OBERLIN, KEVIN.
THE MOMENT OF LOOKING DOWN.
2007. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186430895.
MLA Style (8th edition)
OBERLIN, KEVIN. "THE MOMENT OF LOOKING DOWN." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186430895
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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