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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Didactic poetry"”.
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Audiences in George Herbert's Poetry
Herbert's poetry is informed profoundly by its sense of audience. The constant tension between Herbert's vocation as a divine poet, and the many dangers, theological and psychological, that attend presuming to write divine poetry for the instruction and edification of a human audience results in …
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The Middle English Physiologus: A Critical Translation and Commentary
… source of Medieval sacred iconography and didactic poetry" and still continues to rank among the "books which have made a difference in the way we think" (Curley x). Thus, our understanding of the "Physiologus" and its subsequent tradition becomes increasingly important to the fields of …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… numerous oral figures of speech in Greek lyric poetry often incorporate animals in their figurative language. Likewise, Kalanga folktales, proverbs, and other didactic modes attest to the importance of animals within this culture as vehicles to teach moral lessons. This tendency is visible among …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… justice to the subtlety and complexity of Ovid’s poetry. Reading Ovid requires thinking of "cultivation" (Latin, "cultus") as an emergent and unstable process of negotiation with nonhumans (plants, animals, minerals, the land, and the gods). The thesis shows that, throughout his career, Ovid …
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Every dog has their poem: readings in the Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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"Measured Feet and Jingling Lines" : The Poetry and Poetic Attitudes of Nathaniel Hawthorne
<p>A study of Hawthorne's poetry and poetic attitudes encompasses three separate but integrally related areas. First, few people realize that Hawthorne wrote verse, and no other investigation of the nature and significance of the meager surviving body of this poetry has yet been undertaken. But …
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
<p>In this project, I consider four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <em>Handlyng Synne</em>: “The Tale of the Bloody Child,” “The Tale of the Sacrilegious Carolers of Colbek,” “The Tale of the Midwife Who Christened the Child Wrongly,” and “St. Gregory’s Tale of the Nun Who Spoke Naughty …
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La vídeo poesia: un projecte didàctic
Aquest Treball Final del Màster d'Estudis és un projecte didàctic d'ensenyament secundari que consisteix a elaborar un vídeo poema en grup cooperatiu. En concret, té per objectiu treballar l'oralitat, i ho fa mobilitzant una sèrie d'habilitats de diversos àmbits del coneixement: el digital, …