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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Epic poetry"”.
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… current scholarly re-evaluation of Silver Age Epic as the great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious criticism of the nineteenth century, obsessed as it was with its twin heresies of …
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A genre revised in the epic poetry of H.D. and Gwendolyn Brooks
In the canon of twentieth century American poetry, "long poems" or "anti-epics" or epic poems represent a formidable genre. Defining epic poetry has proved difficult in our modern era, and the possibility that women might write epics is not often considered. This study includes a review of the …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… when they weep? It is well-known that Greek epic heroes like Odysseus weep without losing their claim to masculinity; does the same rule hold true for Roman epic heroes? In this dissertation I examine how men weep in Roman epic poetry of the early Roman empire as an aspect of the performance …
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Verb syntax and the creation of a new verbal environment: Mechanisms of change from Latin to early and modern Romance
… earliest Romance texts, including examples of epic poetry, religious poetry, and religious prose, I show these languages possessed numerous and redundant means of making such distinctions (including alternate casing schemes, agreements, and discourse strategies) and such ambiguity virtually …
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Hesiod Unveiled: The 'Other Poet' among the Exegetes
… the exegetical traditions to the corpus of epic poetry attributed to Hesiod across eight hundred years. Beginning at the Library of Alexandria, it examines how philological techniques, allegoresis, and education intertwine to interpret the Other Poet, the second pillar of the Hellenic canon …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… specifically how her patronage of troubadour poetry extolling women brought civilizing changes to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a renewed enthusiasm for worship of the Virgin Mary and by the lyric quality of Hispano-Arabic poetry. Based …
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An interpretation analysis of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel.
… made in Chapter III, following the precepts for epic poetry set forth in Aristotle's Poetics. Because the lengthy nature of the epic form does not lend itself to an oral reading of the entire story, one climactic unit from the poem is analyzed in greater detail. In Chapter IV the principles of …
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Rivonia
The thesis is entitled ‘Rivonia’ and comprises an epic poem written in the form of ten separate interlinking dramatic monologues and a critical and reflective commentary. The poem is called ‘Rivonia’ and it is about the Rivonia Trial at which Nelson Mandela and six co-accused were sentenced to life …
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the Arthurian Legends: Re-writing and Re-envisioning Women’s Roles in 19th Century England
… on the Idylls of the King; a work of epic poetry that Tennyson wrote about the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. His re-envisioned tales were cautionary and provided guidelines as to how women should behave or face the consequences of causing the downfall of …
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Heroines of Spenser.
… are likenesses of her. Though Spenser's work is epic poetry, his heroines are discernible types possible to any era, but so ideal that their occurrence is rare. In true Renaissance tradition, Spenser glories in the discovery of women as if they were the new hemisphere of the Americas. Una's …
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Modeling Narrative Discourse
… as longer texts including literary fiction and epic poetry. We are able to inferentially find similarities and analogies between encoded stories based on the proposed relations, and an evaluation of this technique shows that human raters prefer such a measure of similarity to a more traditional …
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
… of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between the 1st and the 6th centuries C.E. …
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Sùilean Gàidhlig, Speuclairean Beurla - Dathan ann an Litreachas agus Dualchas Nitheil
… consists of a survey of colour terms in Gaelic poetry and some prose from Scotland, from Medieval to Modern Day.<br/>This is then contextualised by comparison with research done on colour terms on early Welsh epic poetry, and the early Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge to find similarities in use and …
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Neo-Latin America: the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic. Studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)
This is an investigation of the epic poetry produced in and about the Ibero-American world during the early modern period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) in trilingual perspective: in addition to the more familiar Spanish- and Portuguese-language texts, consideration is also––and, for the …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke (1933-1992) elaborated upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke (1933-1992) elaborated upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant medium representative of the age in which it is produced. This study aims to correct one established view of film, put forth by …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
This thesis examines female voices in Hellenistic Poetry. It argues that fictions of female voices in Greek literature produced in this period assume unprecedented importance. Fictions of female voices of course appear within these poems in the form of character voices. They also, however, …
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