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      Birth Cage: Poems

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      Date
      2015-07-31
      Author
      Lausas, Camilla Isa
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Birth Cage is a trilingual and genre-bending approach to poetry. It is a postmodernist blend of visual and concrete poetry inspired by Deconstructivist architecture. Through different languages and voices, Birth Cage investigates the evolution of an individual. The transformation of a body, the search for home and the need to communicate are themes in the journey of a fragmented self towards unity. With a visual and linguistic emphasis on the idea of borders and access, various possible reading paths are related to the immigrant experience of a new culture. Language is treated as a cultural construct shaping the self as it defines the experience of space, on pages or in material space surrounding us. The idea of the self as architecture is a poetic reflection on living space, whether that is body, building or city. Architecture’s double-coding is present as a metaphor and followed in the visual formats which further question the graphic possibilities of words. The different languages and shifting visual elements allow a multifaceted reading experience that is a playful challenge for the reader. As a hybrid book, Birth Cage is a multidisciplinary approach to poetry and a blueprint for a cognitive architecture.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity
      Program
      Writing
      Supervisor
      Clark, Hilary
      Committee
      Lynes, Jeanette; Glenn, Allyson; Miller, Dianne
      Copyright Date
      June 2015
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-06-2108
      Subject
      Poetry
      Visual Poetry
      Concrete Poetry
      Interdisciplinary
      Self as architecture
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