Taylor Barton

Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Shaw, Carl

Keywords

Poetry, Literature, Theoretical Examination, Language

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

This senior project begins with a chronological and theoretical examination of the development of appropriative tactics in poetry and literature over approximately the past one hundred years. Following is a collection of original poetry composed by appropriative means. Following each poem is an examination of the process that brought it about, and a consideration of its theoretical and conceptual implications. I borrowed every word of each poem from preexisting material, reformatted and re-contextualized them, and made them into new works, calling into question traditional notions of authorship, creativity, and originality. I attempted to incorporate experimental, conceptual, procedural appropriation with the more traditional element of self-expression, which has been widely disowned by some of the most prominent voices in appropriative poetry. I attempted to make my voice heard through the incessant onslaught of language in the modern world, as being heard over it is no longer a practical option.

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