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'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Charles S. Howe (B-722a)
No full textOne sepia toned photographic print mounted to Cabinet card of Dr. Charles S. Howe, Professor of Mathematics at Buchtel College (now The University of Akron) in Akron, Ohio from 1883 to 1889. The print and card are yellowed and lightly soiled and there is what appears to be a blue ink stain on the top of the print
Charles S. Howe (B-722b)
No full textOne sepia toned photographic print mounted to Cabinet card of Dr. Charles S. Howe, Professor of Mathematics at Buchtel College (now The University of Akron) in Akron, Ohio from 1883 to 1889. The print and card are yellowed and lightly soiled and the corners of the card are slightly worn
Acknowledgements for Brush's article "Gravitation" (1929 paper), 1929
No full textTyped letter from Charles S. Howe to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending to Howe a copy of the paper, entitled Gravitation, by BrushCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's Article "Some New Experiments in Gravitation. Change in Weights of Metals under Strain" (1925 paper), 1925
No full textTyped letter from Charles S. Howe to Charles F., Sr. thanking Brush for sending his fifth paper on gravitation to Howe, as well as thanking Brush for allowing Howe to look at his laboratory last spring.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's article "Discussion of Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, III, Some Experimental Evidence Supporting Theory; Continual Generation of Heat in Some Igneous Rocks and Minerals. Relation of this to the Internal Heat of the Earth and Presumably the Sun" (1926 paper), 1925-1926
No full textTyped letter from Charles S. Howe to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending a copy of his Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, III, to Howe.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's article, "Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, II, and Some New Experiments in Gravitation," (1924 paper), 1924-1925
No full textTyped letter from Charles S. Howe to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending a copy of his fourth paper on gravitation to Howe.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's article "Persistent Generation of Heat in Some Rocks and Minerals; and Its Probable Significance" (1927 paper), 1928
No full textTyped letter from Charles S. Howe to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending a copy of his paper, Persistent Generation of Heat in Some Rocks, to HoweCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush’s article, “Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, II, and Some New Experiments in Gravitation,” (1922 paper), 1922
No full textTyped letter from Charles Howe to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending latest gravitation paperCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 2Folder 1
Acknowledgements for Brush’s article, “Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, II, and Some New Experiments in Gravitation,” (1921 paper), 1922
No full textTyped letter from Charles Howe, president of Case School of Applied Science, to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending a copy of Brush’s latest paper on gravitationCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 2Folder 1
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