Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft

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dc.contributor.advisorJenkins, Lee
dc.contributor.advisorHanna, Adam
dc.contributor.authorManning, Maria Hanora
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-29T11:09:34Z
dc.date.available2023-09-29T11:09:34Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.submitted2023
dc.description.abstractThis research project proposes to examine a current cohort of female poets employing performance techniques in their poetries, investigating how these poets continue to adapt and adopt the aesthetics of earlier poets. In recent years, the popularity of poetry in online communities has boomed, with an inevitable backlash to this poetic movement, criticising its contribution to poetry as a cultural form, such as Rebecca Watts’ PN Review article. Throughout this research, I aim to locate these poetries (often described as “digital” or “e- poetries”) along a continuum of performance, identifying the ways in which such a factor is evoked in both these new works and the work of earlier poets. Bearing in mind the theories John Miles Foley’s book Oral Literature and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind, which suggests the internet is a natural evolution of oral literature and spoken word poetries, I aim to connect the work of this cohort of poets with performance poets before them, examining the performative overlaps between oral and digital literatures. This project will interrogate the ways in which performance is enacted through a number of guises, from the sounds of orality and musicality, to the embodiment of performance by these poets. I aim to examine the creation of an aesthetic of performance among these women poets, paying particular attention to the ways the female body is performed in this work. Finally, I consider the social implications and contexts of such work, exploring the connections between poet and audience, the poetic persona and the performance of politics in these poetries. My research is primarily focused on work of poets disseminating their work chiefly through non-print methods, such as recording, performance, and social media, in the 21st Century. I will also examine the performance poetries of women poets in the 20th Century, examining the connections and creation ofa performance aesthetic, aiming to link the work of poets across these eras by examining a series of aspects of their poetics, such as the orality, the body, musicality, social engagement and public spheres of poetry.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationManning, M. H. 2023. Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.
dc.identifier.endpage267
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15051
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectIrish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship)
dc.rights© 2023, Maria Hanora Manning.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPerformance poetry
dc.subjectWomen's writing
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectPerformance
dc.titlePerforming women’s poetry: an evolving craft
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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