Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity

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dc.contributor.advisorDriver, Dorothyen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Sandraen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorDistiller, Natashaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWarner, Sarah Janeen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T18:47:22Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T18:47:22Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractRuth Miller's poetry was written between 1940 and the year of her death in 1969, and is published in three volumes, Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968), and Ruth Miller: Poems Prose Plays (1990). In this thesis, I modify the concept of literary maternity suggested by Joan Metelerkamp in her article, “Ruth Miller: Father's Law or Mother's Lore?” (1992). My approach is informed by a model of literary maternity that is not defined in terms of a female figure but in terms of a relation between the earliest parent and the child, or what is referred to in psychoanalytic terms as the preoedipal relation. My thesis is concerned to show how Miller's poetry and a theory on the maternal function of literature reinterpret each other; it includes a consideration of Miller's literary legacy, the critical literature describing her oeuvre, and the issues of continuity and authority that arise in the context of literary publication.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWarner, S. J. (2012). <i>Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWarner, Sarah Jane. <i>"Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWarner, S. 2012. Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Warner, Sarah Jane AB - Ruth Miller's poetry was written between 1940 and the year of her death in 1969, and is published in three volumes, Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968), and Ruth Miller: Poems Prose Plays (1990). In this thesis, I modify the concept of literary maternity suggested by Joan Metelerkamp in her article, “Ruth Miller: Father's Law or Mother's Lore?” (1992). My approach is informed by a model of literary maternity that is not defined in terms of a female figure but in terms of a relation between the earliest parent and the child, or what is referred to in psychoanalytic terms as the preoedipal relation. My thesis is concerned to show how Miller's poetry and a theory on the maternal function of literature reinterpret each other; it includes a consideration of Miller's literary legacy, the critical literature describing her oeuvre, and the issues of continuity and authority that arise in the context of literary publication. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity TI - Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWarner SJ. Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11597en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleRuth Miller and the poetics of literary maternityen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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