Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 362-383).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Katholieke Universitet Nijmegen, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-502) and index (inserted).

Thesis (M.A.) in English--University of Maine, 2004. / Includes vita.

Thesis (PhD--Comparative Literature)--University of Auckland, 2004. / Title taken from PDF title screen (viewed September 4, 2007).

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This PhD by publication focuses on over fifteen years of my cultural production, including poetry, translation, critical essays, and work produced in the context of the visual arts. Ranging from my earliest published work in mor (1997) to my most recent writing projects such as pulllllllllllllllllllllllll: Poesia Contemporânea do Canadá (2010) and the “:”s, published in Open Letter (2012). I have consistently produced work in dialogue with the international context of linguistically innovative writing. The fourteen texts collected here provide clear examples of my approach to practice-led research. Accompanying this portfolio, I have produced a critical essay which reflects on the work. This essay employs a modular rather than a standard hypotactic structure to trace the influences on and the connections among the disparate group of texts which make up my portfolio. A crucial element in my work is the notion—expressed by various proponents of Language Writing and other key influences—that literary production and reception are political as well as aesthetic activities. The critical essay thus contextualizes my work in relation to the politicized experimentalism of North American and European poetics, and clarifies how my writing has consistently challenged the social authority of standard

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A poesia de Paulo Leminski (1944/1989), escrita no Brasil entre os anos 60 e 80 do século XX, revela uma constante atitude de experimentação que abre caminhos para o questionamento da relação entre pensamento, mundo e linguagem. Ao refazer a trajetória do autor e analisar o modo de criação de seus jogos de linguagem, pretendo revelar a lógica de sua poética, voltada para a materialidade do signo lingüístico. Como poeta e ficcionista, redator publicitário, letrista de música, crítico e tradutor, a matériaprima e o objeto de Leminski é sempre a linguagem verbal em suas mais variadas dimensões. Nesse período, entre os anos 60 e 80, em que as teorias sobre os signos e sobre o discurso começam a dominar os estudos literários, a poética metalingüística e reflexiva de Leminski surge como um campo de experiência de limites ainda não testados ou pouco testados por outros poetas. O conceito da poesia como texto literário, como expressão de uma linguagem escrita, veiculada em livros e destinada a um público erudito, passa a ser também por ele questionado. Para Leminski, a poesia faz parte da semiótica, do mundo dos signos que engloba todas as outras formas de manifestações artísticas, de informação e de comunicação. Poesia é também linguagem gráfica, sonora e verbal, que busca uma lógica própria para expressar pensamentos e formas de vida. Esta pesquisa vai focalizar alguns aspectos da teoria da linguagem e da teoria literária evidenciados, em diversos níveis, na prática poética leminskiana. São questões pertinentes ao contexto de diferentes correntes contemporâneas de pensamento que apontam a linguagem como o lugar privilegiado em que se dá a atuação do sujeito e a criação dos sentidos. / The poetry of Paulo Leminski (1944-89), written in Brazil between the 1960s and the 1980s, displays a constant attitude of experimentation that opens up possibilities for questioning the relationships between thought, world and language. By retracing the development of his career as a writer and analyzing the ways in which he created his language games, I set out to discover the logic of his poetics and its links to the materiality of the linguistic sign. As a poet and author of fiction, but also as a producer of advertising copy, song lyrics, literary criticism and translations, Leminski always took verbal language in its many different dimensions as his object and raw material. In the period discussed (1960s, 70s and 80s), when theories of signs and discourse predominated in literary studies, Leminski developed his metalinguistic and reflexive poetics as a field for experiencing and experimenting with limits that other poets had not yet tested at all or only very marginally. He also questioned the concept of poetry as literary text, as the expression of a written language conveyed in books to a learned audience. For Leminski poetry was part of semiotics, of the world of signs that encompasses all other forms of art as well as information and communication. Poetry is visual language and sound as well as verbal language, pursuing its own logic to express thoughts and life forms. My research focuses on some aspects of the theory of language and of the literary theory evinced at various levels by Leminskis poetic practice. The questions raised are pertinent in the context of different contemporary currents of thought which consider language a privileged field for the operation of the subject and the creation of meaning.

Marcada pela exploração de suas próprias estruturas e condições de possibilidade, a obra de Waly Salomão (1943-2003) embaralha as fronteiras entre campos de produção, sob o signo do proteiforme. Entre meandros e amálgamas, suas práticas heterodoxas de composição operam um questionamento radical do estatuto do texto poético na contemporaneidade. Esta tese analisa as relações que se estabelecem entre escritura, gesto e vocalidade na poesia de Waly Salomão, especialmente nos livros Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) e Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), e nas performances poético-visuais, realizadas entre 1974 e 1977 e reunidas em catálogo da exposição Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Por meio da leitura e análise dos poemas, bem como de ensaios e entrevistas do autor, pretende-se discutir a especificidade da enunciação walyana nos entremeios dos contextos tecnoculturais a partir dos quais se projeta e contra os quais se insurge. / Marked by the exploration of its own structures and the conditions of its possibility, the work of Waly Salomão (1943-2003) blurs the boundaries between production fields under the insignia of protean. Among meanders and amalgams, his heterodox compositional practices operate a radical questioning of the status of the poetic text in contemporaneity. This thesis analyzes the relationships established between writing, gesture, and vocality in Waly Salomão poetry, particularly in the books Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) and Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), and in the visual-poetic performances between 1974 and 1977, collected in the catalog of the exhibition titled Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Through reading and analyzing the poems, as well as the authors essays and interviews, I discuss the particularity of the Walyan enunciation amid the techno-cultural contexts from which it protrudes and against which it insurrects.

Emily Dickinson, Frances Sargent Osgood, and Sarah Piatt render the nineteenth-century “women’s sphere” ironically Unheimliche while simultaneously conveying it as the “home sweet home” the sentimental tradition prescribes it should be. These American women poets turn the domestic milieu into, as Paula Bennett phrases it, “the gothic mise en scene par excellence…the displacements, doublings, and anxieties characterizing gothic experience are the direct consequence of domestic ideology’s impact on the lives and psyches of ordinary bourgeois women (121-122).” Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath continue to represent the Unheimliche home in their poetry through the middle of the twentieth century, specifically by portraying the woman writer’s homebound experience as a fearful one; the materials of writing surrounding Plath’s and Sexton’s speakers encourage both creation and self-destruction. The speakers of Invisible Mink confront writing similarly in that the process of making a poem is couched in extreme anxiety. Poetic creation in my collection is explored via gothic conventions including the use of doubles, or poetic doppelgangers, as multiple speakers in poems. Recent poetry and criticism by Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Mary Ruefle, and Olena Kalytiak Davis navigate the space between “home” and “away” in terms of tensions between the “feminine” and the “masculine” and the “confessional” and the “experimental.” Innovations in form and content throughout Invisible Mink are encouraged by Hillman’s work with blank space on the page and Hejinian’s writings on the materiality of words and forms. The use of classic film as a guiding motif in Invisible Mink is particularly inspired by Ruefle’s erasures and Davis’ “samplings,” as termed by critic Ira Sadoff, of classical literary texts. Invisible Mink serves as an example of one woman artist’s “survival story” and is also, I hope, a testament to other women artists’ similar ordeals.