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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Christian poetry"”.
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'Forse in Parnaso esto loco sognaro'. Parnassian Imagery and Dante's Earthly Paradise
… on the power, the limits, and the purpose of poetry. Following an Introduction that describes the aims,scope, and method of the dissertation, Chapter 1 analyses the occurrence of Parnassian images in Purgatorio XXII and pinpoints the main lines of reflections conveyed by the presence of …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… accompanying commentary compare classical and Christian poetry as he seeks to "baptize" the epic tradition associated with classical polytheism. My third chapter explores how Milton uses epideictic rhetoric within Paradise Regained to reshape his readers' understanding of the respective natures …
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A Literary and Critical Study of the Natalicia Composed by Saint Paulinus of Lola
… made by Saint Paulinus of Nola to early Christian poetry. The principal sources at our disposal for a literary study of this author’s works are as follows: the "Corpus Vienna," Volume XXX; Migne, Volume LXI. Although the first of these sources is a later edition, nevertheless the …
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
… world that interpreted most pagan literature in Christian terms; on how and where Dante alludes and refers to classical literary material in the Commedia; on how Dante developed the genre of comedy from Antiquity; and finally on how Dante perceived classical literature as inadequate and …
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
<p>Although the history of China's contact with Christianity can be traced back much further, it is the "third wave" of contact initiated by the Jesuit missionaries in the second half of the sixteenth century that developed into a multi-faceted communication and interaction between the Catholic …
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Ellipses of Gravel
… was my attempt to create a collection of poetry that could potentially be published as a book. I wrote and revised poetry in accordance with lessons learned from several of the authors I studied at Eastern Kentucky University. Workshop courses offered valuable feedback from classmates and …