 |
||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
full text is available online.
| Document ID: | ENG2005-004 |
| Document Type: | Thesis |
| Author: | Brian L. Carpenter |
| E-mail Address: | |
| URN: | |
| Title: | "A Marvelously Big Stone": Geological Objects and Mythological Experience in the Writing of Charles Olson |
| Degree: | M.A. |
| Department: | English |
| Committee Chair: | Benjamin Friedlander, Associate Professor of English, Advisor |
| Chair's E-mail: | |
| Committee Members: | Carla Billitteri, Assistant Professor of English; Steve Evans, Associate Professor of English; Burton Hatlen, Professor of English |
| Subjects: | Olson, Charles, -- 1910-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation; Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
| Date of Defense: | 2005 |
| Availability: |
Abstract
The writings of the American poet, Charles Olson (1 9 10- 1970), have received extensive critical discussion in the part four decades, particularly with regard to Olson's interest in the investigation of historical and phenomenological meanings bound up in geographic location and terrestrial environment. A major feature of this aspect of Olson's writing is its consistent register of attention to geological objects and contemporary earth science. However, because this area of his writings, which first comes to particular prominence in his poetry of the early 1960s, is pursued in parallel and in intersection with other thematic elements-mythology, most of all-that are often more explicit or dominant, there has developed in Olson criticism a strong tendency to approach the geological in Olson as a secondary area whose role is chiefly to sublimely illustrate or metaphorically exemplify these other, ostensibly "fundamental" themes. This study seeks to re-consider the role of the geological in Olson's writing. Two methodological components are necessary to its procedure. First, to expand our understanding of just what we might understand as his geologically oriented poems we
Carpenter, Brian L., University of Maine, ENG2005-004
 |
|
