Laura Severin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Severin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Severin |
| SIGNATURE | SEVERIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Valerie Gillies
This article focuses on Valerie Gillies’s contribution to women’s poetry through an examination of her 2016 exhibition, A Garden of Time and Silence, with textile artist Anna S. King, at Dawyck Botanic Gardens in the Scottish Borders. While Gillies is an acclaimed print-page poet, this piece represents her skill at alternative uses of poetry. Throughout her career, Gillies has employed collaborative multimedia art to engage in contemporary politi…
Redefining the Poet as Healer
This article examines the poetic contribution of Valerie Gillies, Edinburgh Makar (or poet of the city) from 2005–2008, to the Edinburgh Marie Curie Hospice Quiet Room, a new contemplation space for patients, families, and staff. In collaboration with others, Gillies created a transitional space for the Quiet Room, centered on the display of her sonnet, “A Place Apart.” This space functions to comfort visitors to the Quiet Room by relocating them…
The gilt is off the gingerbread
This paper argues that Stevie Smith's revisionary fairy tales should be read as a feminist response to the conservative rhetoric of domesticity in the 1930s and 1950s, which encouraged women to continue as traditional wives and mothers. Following in the tradition of her Victorian predecessors who used the fairy tale for social critique, Smith retold fairy tales in order to offer the women of her time period alternative life scripts. Through her a…
British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990
laugh of the new woman Rebecca West's elegy - women's laughter and loss The Ghost and Mrs Muir - laughing with the Captain in the house the slim, fasting smile - Anita Brooner and post-Holocaust women's comedy Suniti Namjoshi - laughing with and at her Sisters
Becoming and unbecoming
This article examines British poet Stevie Smith's adoption of a childlike persona in her 1960's performances in the context of Victorian and modernist discourses of childhood. I argue that Smith made use of these discourses’ notion of childhood as a period of freedom in order to critique traditional notions of femininity, beginning in her poetry of the 1930's, continuing in her personal fashion text in the 1950's, and concluding in her performanc…
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Becoming and unbecoming
This article examines British poet Stevie Smith's adoption of a childlike persona in her 1960's performances in the context of Victorian and modernist discourses of childhood. I argue that Smith made use of these discourses’ notion of childhood as a period of freedom in order to critique traditional notions of femininity, beginning in her poetry of the 1930's, continuing in her personal fashion text in the 1950's, and concluding in her performanc…
British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990
laugh of the new woman Rebecca West's elegy - women's laughter and loss The Ghost and Mrs Muir - laughing with the Captain in the house the slim, fasting smile - Anita Brooner and post-Holocaust women's comedy Suniti Namjoshi - laughing with and at her Sisters
The gilt is off the gingerbread
This paper argues that Stevie Smith's revisionary fairy tales should be read as a feminist response to the conservative rhetoric of domesticity in the 1930s and 1950s, which encouraged women to continue as traditional wives and mothers. Following in the tradition of her Victorian predecessors who used the fairy tale for social critique, Smith retold fairy tales in order to offer the women of her time period alternative life scripts. Through her a…
Redefining the Poet as Healer
This article examines the poetic contribution of Valerie Gillies, Edinburgh Makar (or poet of the city) from 2005–2008, to the Edinburgh Marie Curie Hospice Quiet Room, a new contemplation space for patients, families, and staff. In collaboration with others, Gillies created a transitional space for the Quiet Room, centered on the display of her sonnet, “A Place Apart.” This space functions to comfort visitors to the Quiet Room by relocating them…
Valerie Gillies
This article focuses on Valerie Gillies’s contribution to women’s poetry through an examination of her 2016 exhibition, A Garden of Time and Silence, with textile artist Anna S. King, at Dawyck Botanic Gardens in the Scottish Borders. While Gillies is an acclaimed print-page poet, this piece represents her skill at alternative uses of poetry. Throughout her career, Gillies has employed collaborative multimedia art to engage in contemporary politi…
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