Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Hines, Kelly Dorothea, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): Egan, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Cecchetto, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Howes, Moira, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Untitled (dissertation 4.2) offers a performative take on the political implications of digital archives. I argue that technological developments and their increasing ubiquity has not resulted in more reliable archives; it has facilitated the exacerbation of what Jacques Derrida calls mal d'archive—or archive fever—which refers to the institutionally supported passion to preserve… more Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mahdavi, Mir Hussain, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Donaldson, Jeffery, Degree committee member (dgc): Rouselle, Duane, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The central question of this research is "What is poetry?" The ambiguity and unintelligibility of the question itself forces the writing to take two different approaches to it. The first approach is to define poetry not by what it is but by how it is related to the human being and to the world. Seeing poetry as its relation to Being allows a definition of poetry based on its… more
