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Nelson, Cary Ford, Karen Jackson 2011-05-07T12:00:16Z 2011-05-07T12:00:16Z 10000-01-01 1989 "The dissertation identifies and explores a female literary tradition that I am calling the ""poetics of excess."" The purpose of the study is to offer a new way to read certain women poets whom readers have regarded as flawed by various stylistic and thematic excesses. Instead of thinking of excess as a weakness, I take it to be a deliberate aesthetic strategy for overcoming the limitations that the dominant literary culture imposes on a woman writer. I build my theoretical argument not only on reading of the poems but also on analyses of the letters, journals, and other prose works of the main poets in this tradition--Dickinson, Stein, and Plath. In each chapter I pursue extended reading of their key poems about composition to demonstrate both the workings of excess in the poetry and the poem's own recapitulation of the need for such an aesthetic." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:00:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9010856.pdf: 10175607 bytes, checksum: b333f6de9cc19488cca7caf38cad6d08 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:35:23Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:13:55-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9010856 (UMI)AAI9010856 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19209 eng Copyright 1989 Ford, Karen Jackson Women's Studies Literature, American Moments of brocade: The aesthetics of excess in American women's poetry text Dept. of English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.