. . JEROME ROTHENBERG: TECUNICIAN OF THE SACRED : . the Department | . : . p- « English . | . . ; \ “ " presented in Partial’ Fulfillment of the Requirements , ¢ for the degree of Master of Arts at : Concordia University 2 Montreal, Quebec, Canada February 1980 . @© Sharon H. Nelson, 1980 °, ;ABSTRACT y JEROME ROTHENBER TECHNICIAN OF THE SACRED Sharon H. Nelson ~ This! thedis is an examination of somé of the inter- relations in the works of Jerome Rothenberg. Rothenberg'é departure from Anglo-American Modernism is examined with’ reference to a Romantic, visionary tradition, and to ethni- cism, and his poetics are seen to parallel developments in the herméneutics of science, particularly as these reflect a post-relativistic world-view.- Rothenberg's Poland poems, and especially “Cokboy," are treated as culmimative works for which the ans ethnopoetics served as preparation. of deep image and the conception ofAcknowledgements | 1 an'nost deeply indebted to Profeasor stanton g.° ' = . Hoffman without whose intervention, knowledge, afd schol- unfinished, T am grateful to Jerry and Diane Rothenberg arly sharing and support enth cheats would have remained | tlc sfor materials and information to Marvin Orbach, Concordia Librarian, who has been an uhtiring source of, information - and encouragement; to Sylvia D'Arcangelo, who shared her / knowledge of the petiod and of the Rothenbergs with me.: I’ am also gi ul to Professor Eric Mottram, whose excellent vee overview of the Rothenberg materials was of considerablé 7 whelp tome, and to Peter Grogono for his guidance in the » _ hermeneutics of science.