Date of Award
2017
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
Keywords
astronomy, defamiliarization, metaphor, poetry, science, solar system
Supervisor
Cabri, Louis
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
Sol and the Rockettes is a collection of poetry exploring our solar system and many of the lesser known qualities and characteristics of planetary bodies. The poetry relates these characteristics through a combination of scientific language and a mishmash of conflicting metaphors; this includes an overarching family structure, which describes the planetary bodies as human-ish figures, with human traits representative of their physical traits. The accompanying essay, “Building a Home for Readers in the Unfamiliar Territory of Space,” details the relationship between science and poetry in a few select works (Mary Barnard’s Time and the White Tigress, Christopher Dewdney’s The Natural History, and Christian Bök’s The Xenotext), and examines, in particular, the techniques used to integrate science in poetry in meaningful ways, in relation to the techniques used in Sol and the Rockettes.
Recommended Citation
Bauder, Samantha, "Sol and the Rockettes" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5966.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5966