Birth Cage: Poems
| dc.contributor.advisor | Clark, Hilary | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lynes, Jeanette | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Glenn, Allyson | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Miller, Dianne | en_US |
| dc.creator | Lausas, Camilla Isa | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-01T12:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-01T12:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015-06 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-07-31 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | June 2015 | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-06-2108 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.subject | Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Visual Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Concrete Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Interdisciplinary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self as architecture | en_US |
| dc.title | Birth Cage: Poems | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Writing | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) | en_US |