Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alena Alexandrova

Independent reviewer: Dr. Maria Fusco

Thesis: An Exploration of Verbivocovisual Borders and Margins

July 2015

Abstract

An Exploration of Verbivocovisual Borders and Margins examines the lack of female voices in concrete poetry, an art and writing practice, emerging in the mid-1950’s, that antagonises spatial, temporal, acoustic, visual and semantic properties of language. Focusing particularly on the work of one concrete poet, Mary Ellen Solt, this thesis will reflect upon the marginality of women within the genre and some of possible causes for their exclusion. Considering strategies for writing the feminine and Hélène Cixous’s l’Écriture féminine,

An Exploration of … imagines a space for a female concrete poetry outside of phallogocentricism.

Author: Bryony Gillard