This paper examines assimilation and double-consciousness in the poetry of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham. Each of these three poets writes in English in an American setting but has a different heritage. Simic is a native Yugoslavian (Serbia) who fled Europe during WWII. Chin arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong as a child, and Atefat-Peckham is a first-generation American raised by Iranian parents. Each of these poets expresses some degree of assimilation and double-consciousness (as described by various theorists including W.E.B. Du Bois and Werner Sollors, among others) through the form and content of their poetry. This paper compares the three poets' work, attempting to draw inferences on how double-consciousness and assimilation is expressed in their poems and to what degree. This study argues that Simic is the least assimilated (as his poetry portrays the most severe double-consciousness), Chin is in-between and Atefat-Peckham the most assimilated.

As an alternative to print media, digital media make us newly aware of the materiality of experimental poetic texts and require us to account for their media-specific differences. Although already several theoretical models have been put forward to define these differences, so far few poems have been analyzed in terms of their media-specific textual materiality. This thesis seeks to fill this gap in the applied media-specific analysis of experimental poetry. It combines traditional close reading with a media-specific approach in order to investigate the relationship between the physical characteristics and signifying strategies of four experimental poetic texts in various digital and non-digital media. It critically interrogates the specific use of the given medium in each poem, and illustrates that their respective textual materiality cannot be specified in advance based on general assumptions concerning the medium in question. A digital poem is not inherently more innovative than a non-digital poem. Rather, a poem is perceived as innovative if it resists conventional reading strategies by establishing a particularly complex, dynamic, and effectively anomalous sense of textual materiality, which necessarily only emerges from the direct interplay among text, object, and reader.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

The language of flowers was a popular phenomenon in the United States in the nineteenth century. This dissertation on American literature looks at several American women authors’ use of the language of flowers in their novels. I examine the use of the language of flowers in Margaret Fuller’s “Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” “Yuca Filamentosa,” and poetry such as “To Sarah,” Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons, Edith Wharton’s Summer, Mary Austin’s Santa Lucia: A Common Story and Cactus Thorn, and Susan Glaspell’s The Verge. Through analysis of language of flowers dictionaries, historical studies of the language of flowers, feminist history and theory, and close readings of the sketches, poems, novels, and plays themselves, I will show that American women continued to use and be influenced by the language of f lowers for close to a decade. I will also show that these women writers’ use of the language of flowers shows evolving social attitudes toward women and standards of femininity in American society during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis analyzes the speaking and silencing of two female characters, Beatrice from Dante’s Vita Nuova and Purgatorio and Susan from J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. The texts are viewed through postcolonial and feminist lenses to show the problems with male characters speaking for female characters and the obstacles the female characters face when attempting to speak. Dante’s solution to this problem is to transform Beatrice from a silent and demure woman into a character who issues commands with a powerful voice. Coetzee’s solution is instead to refuse to provide a solution, since no one but Susan can speak for her. This thesis describes the different roles that Susan and Beatrice take on in order to gain authority and tell their true stories. The relationships of the male and female characters are explored, as well as their relationships to speaking, silence, revision, truth, and meaning.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / Library's copy not signed by author. Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-411) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999. / Bibliography: p. 314-330.

This dissertation has the objective to verify the contribution of different tips for line detection, to the classification of multispectral images, with the possible use in the discrimination and mapping of class of covering of the land. In this context, the comparison between different techniques of detection of characteristics for extraction of power lines in agricultural areas is affected, namely, distinction techniques using variation of contrast and morphologic filtering, and detection of edges using filter Canny and detector SUSAN. In this case were used techniques of extraction of lines with Hough Transform and Radon Transform too, using different algorithms in aerial images of remote sensing. These results had evaluated and compared producing tables of efficiency for each procedure. These tables direct the different solutions that change of boarding depending of the final objective of the detection of the Power Lines. / Essa dissertação tem o objetivo de verificar a contribuição de diferentes abordagens para extração de linhas, à classificação de imagens multiespectrais, com o possível uso na discriminação e mapeamento de classes de cobertura da terra. Nesse contexto, é efetuada a comparação entre diferentes técnicas de extração de características para extração de linhas de transmissão em áreas rurais, a saber, técnicas de realce utilizando variação de contraste e filtragem morfológica, bem como detecção de bordas utilizando filtro Canny e detector SUSAN, citando como técnica de extração de linhas a Transformada de Hough e Transformada de Radon, utilizando diferentes algoritmos, em imagens aéreas e de sensoriamento remoto. O processo de análise de imagens, com diferentes abordagens leva a resultados variados em diferentes tipos de coberturas do solo. Tais resultados foram avaliados e comparados produzindo tabelas de eficiência para cada procedimento. Estas tabelas direcionam a diferentes encaminhamentos, que vão variar de abordagem dependendo do objetivo final da extração das Linhas de Transmissão.