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dc.contributor.authorFeatherston, Daniel Rex
dc.creatorFeatherston, Daniel Rexen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-06T14:06:39Z
dc.date.available2011-12-06T14:06:39Z
dc.date.issued2006en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/195774
dc.description.abstractRadical 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.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 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.subjectRobert Duncanen_US
dc.subjectcultural politicsen_US
dc.subjectreligious and political radicalismen_US
dc.subjectanarchismen_US
dc.titleRadical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncanen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Dissertationen_US
dc.contributor.chairNathanson, Tenneyen_US
dc.identifier.oclc137355848en_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen_US
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberAiken, Susan Hardyen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberBowen, Rogeren_US
dc.identifier.proquest1522en_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen_US
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-06-27T00:09:19Z
html.description.abstractRadical 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.


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