Breaking things apart and putting them back together: ekphrastic poetry

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dc.contributor.advisorFinlay, Triny
dc.contributor.authorDawson, Benjamin Jeromy
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:23:44Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:23:44Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2023-03-01T15:02:02Z
dc.description.abstract“Breaking Things Apart and Putting Them Back Together” is an ekphrastic poetry collection composed of forty-nine poems, as well as a critical introduction. It deals with paintings from artists on the East Coast of Canada such as Mary Pratt, Harold Cromwell, Maud Lewis, and Molly Lamb Bobak; these fours artists are discussed at length in the critical introduction that explores the creative and theoretical framework of ekphrasis. I reimagine ekphrasis as a collaborative art, through which I try to understand life on the East Coast, finding within the range of artists I examined thematic and technical similarities, as well as a general folk sensibility; many artists illustrated landscapes suggesting a consistent creative connection with the land they lived on. While the images gesture outward to viewers, the poems I wrote about them are often introspective, dealing with issues of home, community, culture, and mental health.
dc.description.copyright© Benjamin Dawson, 2020
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dc.format.extentv, 72 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/13729
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEnglish
dc.titleBreaking things apart and putting them back together: ekphrastic poetry
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Arts
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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