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Surface tension : affect, time, and critique in late-Victorian poetry
This dissertation examines the relationship between highly wrought textual surface, intense affect, and sociopolitical engagement in the poetry of the late-Victorian period. Applying the term "surface tension" to poetry in which phonic, orthographic, or associative bonds between words create a resistant textuality, I argue that such formal intricacy, often deliberately employed to represent extreme affectivity, also serves to invoke cataclysmic rather than progressive models of social change. The poems I examine, however, are not overtly political; rather they tend to foreground intersubjectivity and the problematic of desire, wherein intersubjectivity becomes a model for the social more broadly defined; thus the poet's attitude toward desire acquires a political valence.
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- "This dissertation examines the relationship between highly wrought textual surface, intense affect, and sociopolitical engagement in the poetry of the late-Victorian period. Applying the term "surface tension" to poetry in which phonic, orthographic, or associative bonds between words create a resistant textuality, I argue that such formal intricacy, often deliberately employed to represent extreme affectivity, also serves to invoke cataclysmic rather than progressive models of social change. The poems I examine, however, are not overtly political; rather they tend to foreground intersubjectivity and the problematic of desire, wherein intersubjectivity becomes a model for the social more broadly defined; thus the poet's attitude toward desire acquires a political valence."@en