Radical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncan
dc.contributor.author | Featherston, Daniel Rex | |
dc.creator | Featherston, Daniel Rex | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-06T14:06:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-12-06T14:06:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195774 | |
dc.description.abstract | Radical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncan investigates the relationship between religious and political radicalism in the poetry and poetics of San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan (1919-1988). I argue that Duncan draws on a nexus of religious and political "heresies" (e.g., Gnosticism, anarchism) to create a complex ethical vision of individual freedom and communal interdependence, what the poet called a "symposium of the whole." As my argument demonstrates, Robert Duncan's mytho-anarchism serves as a critique of twentieth-century political ideology, as well as the cultural politics of such precursors and contemporaries as Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | The University of Arizona. | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Robert Duncan | en_US |
dc.subject | cultural politics | en_US |
dc.subject | religious and political radicalism | en_US |
dc.subject | anarchism | en_US |
dc.title | Radical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncan | en_US |
dc.type | text | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Dissertation | en_US |
dc.contributor.chair | Nathanson, Tenney | en_US |
dc.identifier.oclc | 137355848 | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Arizona | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Aiken, Susan Hardy | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Bowen, Roger | en_US |
dc.identifier.proquest | 1522 | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | English | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Graduate College | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-27T00:09:19Z | |
html.description.abstract | Radical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncan investigates the relationship between religious and political radicalism in the poetry and poetics of San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan (1919-1988). I argue that Duncan draws on a nexus of religious and political "heresies" (e.g., Gnosticism, anarchism) to create a complex ethical vision of individual freedom and communal interdependence, what the poet called a "symposium of the whole." As my argument demonstrates, Robert Duncan's mytho-anarchism serves as a critique of twentieth-century political ideology, as well as the cultural politics of such precursors and contemporaries as Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. |