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      Cramp-Hand Cuffers: The Robert Bartlett Explorations

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      Date
      2018-06-29
      Author
      Pevlin, Geoffrey 1985-
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Cramp-Hand Cuffers is a collection of semi-biopic prose poems about Captain Robert Bartlett written in a hybrid of Newfoundland dialect and standard English. The narrative begins with Bartlett at home in Newfoundland, anxious to get back out on the sea. He soon joins the ill-fated Karluk expedition which becomes jammed in heavy Arctic Sea ice and sinks in a largely unexplored region north of Siberia in 1914. Bartlett and his crew camped on the thick ice for months, and he was eventually forced to trek 700 miles over the rough, shifting ice and through Siberia to mount a rescue effort from Alaska. Despite his suffering, Bartlett maintains a humorous disposition, reflects on his life back in Brigus, and, when he finally arrives home safe, can’t wait to get back out on the breakers again.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      Writing
      Supervisor
      Lynes, Jeanette
      Committee
      Parkinson, David; Benning, Sheri; Ophir, Ella; Sinclair, Sue
      Copyright Date
      October 2018
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8632
      Subject
      Newfoundland
      dialect
      poetry
      prose poems
      Arctic exploration
      fishing
      sealing
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