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Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Warner, Sarah Jane |
| author2 | Driver, Dorothy |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11597 Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity Warner, Sarah Jane Driver, Dorothy Young, Sandra Distiller, Natasha English Language and Literature Includes bibliographical references. Ruth Miller's poetry was written between 1940 and the year of her death in 1969, and is published in three volumes, Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968), and Ruth Miller: Poems Prose Plays (1990). In this thesis, I modify the concept of literary maternity suggested by Joan Metelerkamp in her article, “Ruth Miller: Father's Law or Mother's Lore?” (1992). My approach is informed by a model of literary maternity that is not defined in terms of a female figure but in terms of a relation between the earliest parent and the child, or what is referred to in psychoanalytic terms as the preoedipal relation. My thesis is concerned to show how Miller's poetry and a theory on the maternal function of literature reinterpret each other; it includes a consideration of Miller's literary legacy, the critical literature describing her oeuvre, and the issues of continuity and authority that arise in the context of literary publication. 2015-01-06T18:47:22Z 2015-01-06T18:47:22Z 2012 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| title_full | Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| title_fullStr | Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| title_short | Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| title_sort | ruth miller and the poetics of literary maternity |
| topic | English Language and Literature |
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