THE ODICY
Issue Date
2010-12-31Author
Console, Cyrus
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
84 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
English
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The title of The Odicy refers to the epic story of Ulysses, but it also indicates another term, the single word "theodicy," which Leibniz coined to describe a vindication, in the face of evil, of the goodness and fairness of a supreme being or creator. The Odicy is organized around a set of interrelated concerns about how poetry can relate, for example, to the increasing weaponization of the American citizenry, how it can relate to the various American styles of religious fundamentalism, and especially how poetry, an ancient and potentially sustainable form of artistic production, can confront the prospect of ecological collapse.
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