Nameless wonders and dumb despair: rhetorics of silence in mid-nineteenth-century U.S. poetry and culture
Taking a cue from the occasional reticence of the often-exuberant American Romantic poetics, this project tracks what I call “rhetorics of silence” in verse: those moments where words are declared to be inadequate, impertinent, unavailable, unintelligible or otherwise unsuitable for a task that the...
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University of Iowa
2017
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5720 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7198&context=etd |