Julia Randall’s Poetic Finitude: Mapping the Infinite onto a Poem

Year: 2015 Authors: Emily Grosholz

Core claim

Randall’s poetry achieves structural stasis by using patterns akin to mathematical compactification and equivalence to gather time, landscape, and meaning into one finite poem.

Topics

poetic stasis, finite and infinite, repetition, syntactic ambiguity

Domains

number theory, topology, projective geometry, equivalence classes, poetry, literary analysis, music, aesthetic form

Methods

close reading, mathematical analogy, comparative interpretation, textual quotation

Media

selected poems, printed verse, examples from hymn and song, diagram of line-to-circle mapping

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