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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Elegies"”.
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
This study of Victorian elegies examines elegies that divide the voice of the mourner not only as to express utterances of sorrow, but also to assert poetic authority, to navigate collective loss, and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together …
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Characters of Love: Propertius and Cynthia in 'Elegies' 1
… close analysis of specific poems in Propertius’ Elegies that contribute to and shape the development of characterization in the first book, as well as to show how Propertius’ and Cynthia’s characterizations interact with and build upon each another. In the first chapter I look at four poems that …
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Cerberus Amator: Underworld Imagery in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius
… the mythological figure of Cerberus in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius. My objective is to bring to light the imaginative and provocative way that both of these poets employ the imagery and history of Cerberus and by so doing to illustrate the way in which both poets present Cerberus …
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Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770)
This dissertation explores highly influential constructions of the past at a key turning point in Chinese history by mapping out what I term a poetics of memory in the more than four hundred poems written by Du Fu (712-770) during his two-year stay in the remote town of Kuizhou (modern Fengjie). A …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… the claim that death literature, specifically elegies and epitaphs, do not rely on set structure or content, but rather are poetic effects of trauma and affect. Both have been defined and redefined by critical scholars, but there is still a division about their use. The beginning of the project …
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Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard
… themes in gay literature. Canvassing the gay elegies of James Merrill and Richard Howard, this study exposes motifs and themes particular to memorializing a gay ADDS death. The study begins by establishing some parameters of pre-AIDS gay elegiac form by discussing Merrill's The Changing Light …
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A rhetorical analysis of <i>Deor</i>, <i>The Ruin</i> and <i>The Wanderer</i>
… explanation at the outset: 1. why discuss the elegies and, 2. why the elegies chosen?</p>
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The Return of Cynthia and The Structure of Propertius Book Iv (Latin, Elegy)
… argues that Propertius in Book IV of his elegies may have deliberately scuttled an elegantly symmetrical book-structure to meet the demands of context.
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… intertextual. I cite references made to famous elegies and suggest what has motivated both poets' use of their sources. Drawing on traditional elegies throughout - but especially in Chapters 1, 4 and 6 - I argue that Harrison and Dunn display elegiac tendencies in their treatment of personal …
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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
… the rhetoric used in funeral sermons and elegies, I show that commemorative writers use figural interpretation of the Bible to legitimize praise by linking the deceased to characters from scripture. Figural interpretation places the dead into a framework of ecclesiastical history and …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… the elegy, not simply by African Americans, but elegies for the black body. The elegy for the black body micro-analyzes a selection of poems from 1955 to 2017, pulled from various styles and periods, but unified by theme and response to a racially violent narrative. So what constitutes the elegy …
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Whitman And The Elegy: Mythologizing Lincoln And The Poetic Reconstruction Of Mourning
… to capture in his poems. Whitman's series of elegies following the death of Abraham Lincoln mythologized the president in ways that still permeate our historical view of Lincoln today. This essay seeks to give an in-depth explication of the ways in which Whitman consciously subverted the …
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Renaissance Receptions of Ovid's <i>Tristia</i>
… Klemens Janicki (1516-1543) and the book of elegies he provocatively entitled <i>Tristium Liber</i>. The chapter provides a biographical section, and elaborates the literary process by which his adaptation of Ovid functions by focusing on how Janicki assumes the Ovidian exilic persona as a …
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The Naturalist
… The poems of The Naturalist are a collection of elegies that reflect many of the ideas brought forth in the preface.
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CRAFTING THE FEVER
… a transformation. The collection also contains elegies written in lyrical, free-verse form. I also explicate how I employ line breaks to exaggerate the multiplicity of lines, words and connotations. This collection works toward understanding and redefining the female experience and identity …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… corpus of anonymous homilies, saints’ lives, elegies, and heroic poems including Beowulf. The first three chapters identify cultural concepts and literary strategies that enabled Anglo-Saxon writers and readers to express and experience narrative empathy as well as cognitive linguistic …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity as proposed by Judith …
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
… on erotic literature. Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and …
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Grief (w)rites: Composing loss in the composition classroom
… between these kinds of dialogues and elegies written by nineteenth century women, which invite reciprocation and response rather than definitive closure. The author suggests that these dialogues are essential to not just writing, but also to grieving and healing, and argues that …
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