Selected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: A Burkeian Analysis
Description:
In this study, Kenneth Burke's methods of dramatistic analysis is applied to the selected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, a Black contemporary female poet. The procedure, analysis of poetry for symbolic action, is a functional approach which focuses on the poetic language, Agency. The thesis, divided into four chapters, concentrates on discovery of the Purpose, a Black female motive, for the Act, Giovanni's poetry, in the Scene, contemporary Black America.
Date:
August 1973
Creator:
Tobola, Carolyn
Partner:
UNT Libraries