Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
Penn, Darren
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Title
Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
Author(s)
Penn, Darren
Issue Date
2017-12-07
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Newcomb, Tim
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Nelson, Cary
Committee Member(s)
Mahaffey, Vicki
Blake, Nancy
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Poetry
Modernism
Poetics
Modernist
Modernist poetry
Modernist literature
Wallace Stevens
Mina Loy
Sara Teasdale
T.S. Eliot
Maritime
Oceanic
Silence
Music
Abstract
This dissertation demonstrates how modernist poets dramatize the dynamic, complex mental dispositions and sensibilities necessary for readers to comprehend the notorious difficultly of modernist literature and handle the maelstrom of modernity. Beginning with, perhaps, the most philosophically overt poet to write in the twentieth century, chapter one demonstrates how Wallace Stevens dramatizes human cognition as a musical, tense, and sensuous experience. Chapter two extends these themes of Stevnesian cognition by examining the implications of where Stevens locates his thinking. Chapter three focuses on the ways in which female poets Sara Teasdale and Mina Loy dramatize human cognition as an embodied experience and, consequently, help subvert the oppressive legacy of Cartesian dualism. Chapter four returns to Stevens, and pairs his work with T.S. Eliot, to examine the way silence shapes their understanding of thinking. These chapters demonstrate the ways in which modernist poetry enables readers to achieve the cognitive temperaments necessary to most productively engage modernist literate and navigate modernity.
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