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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Elegy"”.
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ENVELOPE ELEGY
… in this thesis fall under the heading, “Envelope Elegy.” To me, this title suggests something I think a good majority of poems examine: what would it mean to miss or lose something that is just about to disappear but has not yet done so? These poems wrestle with this element of the human …
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Kaddish: Allen Ginsberg's American Elegy
This works analyzes the impact and meaning of Allen Ginsberg's poem Kaddish. It is shown through biographical, textual and historical evidence that Kaddish is more than just a poem for and about Ginsberg's deceased mother. In the poem, Ginsberg's mother, Naomi, serves symbolically for all …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
In this dissertation, the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo …
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
… latter part of the first century B.C. Latin Love Elegy provides an opportunity for studying the response of a particular genre to the phenomenon of luxury in an erotic context. After a general introduction to the role of luxury in the economic life of Republican Rome, the literary response to …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
The thesis defines Woolf's modernization of elegy from the perspective of gender. Western men and women have been trained to obey two distinct sets of codes in traditional mourning culture and have experienced differently problematic cultural sanctions in responding to loss. This study explores how …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… demonstrate how poetic writings, explicitly the elegy and epitaph should be defined in terms of emotionality.</p>
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Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
… used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
… is now. The three stories function as a sort of elegy (a word Karen E. Smythe used to define Munro’s older stories), and by the end of Silence, Juliet has accepted her past and returned to her Greek studies, finding some sense of peace. I’ve followed the narrative leaps in time and shifts in …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
… is now. The three stories function as a sort of elegy (a word Karen E. Smythe used to define Munro’s older stories), and by the end of Silence, Juliet has accepted her past and returned to her Greek studies, finding some sense of peace. I’ve followed the narrative leaps in time and shifts in …
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Whitman And The Elegy: Mythologizing Lincoln And The Poetic Reconstruction Of Mourning
… adoration, and consolation of the traditional elegy were not enough to accommodate the complex, organic mourning that Whitman sought 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 …
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The Return of Cynthia and The Structure of Propertius Book Iv (Latin, Elegy)
This dissertation 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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<i>Non Ego Laudari Curo</i>: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy
… new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator is not alien from the heroic self-assertion and pursuit of vengeance, typical of the honor-seeking elites …
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
… strife. This is a means for Ovid of relating his elegy to the epic tradition, in which Empedocles was an important figure. At the same time I argue that Ovid suggests that there are certain features of the form and content of elegy that render it uniquely "Empedoclean," such as the "cyclical" …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… Wordsworth's 'Essays upon Epitaphs' and Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', Chapter 1 argues that Harrison reviews a poetics of epitaphs in V.. In Chapters 4 and 6 it is argued that the figures, structures and motifs of elegy fragmentarily echoed in Dunn's poetry are deformations as …
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Movement in Relation to Diction and Imagery in E. E. Cummings' Elegy "My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love"
<p>E. E. Cummings' elegy "my father moved through dooms of love" has been singled out by Theodore Spencer as "one of the finest lyrics America has produced. Several other critics have cited this poem as an example of Cummings' syntactical experimentation and his penchant for endowing commonplace …
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Funktion der Grossstadtallegorie und des "Mythos" in der "Zehnten Duineser Elegie" von Rainer Maria Rilke. (German text);
… function of the city-allegory in the Tenth Duino Elegy. This function is further developed, in detail, in the central third chapter of the thesis, which offers a text-immanent examination of the early stages of the elegy. The mythology manifested in the second half of the poem serves to illustrate …
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The Naturalist
… is the mother of beauty': The Contemporary Elegy and the Search for the Dead," I examine contemporary alterations and manifestations of the traditional genre of elegy. I explore the idea that the contemporary mourner is aware of the need to search for meaning despite living in a world …
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