Evetts-Secker, JosephineIrvine, Dean J.2005-07-292005-07-2919960612128326http://hdl.handle.net/1880/29412Bibliography: p. 152-164.By envisioning a manifold image-theory in Anne Wilkinson's poetry and autobiographical writings in light of Metaphysical, Romantic, Symbolist, and Modernist poetics, and archetypal and phenomenological psychology, this thesis imagines a revisionist theory of Wilkinson' s poetics. From an historical perspective, the revisionist project reviews a genealogy of Wilkinson's poetics through the lenses of her reviewers and critics, focussing on the field of Canadian Modernism. In specific application to Wilkinson's poetry and autobiographical writings, the revisionist project attends to her prolific '"elemental images" of earth, air, water, and fire, and so develops an image-theory - a poetics of the elemental imagination. Because Wilkinson herself also acts as a revisionist mythmaker, myths not only structure the imaginal matrices of her poetics, but also lend their archetypal structure to a theory of the elemental image and imagination in her poetry, journals, and autobiography.vii, 164 leaves ; 30 cm.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.PS 8545 I23 Z73 1996Wilkinson, Anne, 1910-1961 - Criticism and interpretationmaster thesis10.11575/PRISM/14007PS 8545 I23 Z73 1996