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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"French poetry"”.
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… dissertation examines the vital experimental French poetry of the 1980s to the present. Whereas earlier twentieth century poets often shunned common speech, poets today seek instead to appropriate, adapt, and reorganize a wide variety of contemporary discourses. Narrative also reemerges both …
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Mirror, Fragment, Repetition: Using Metaphor to Read Twentieth-Century French Poetry in English Translation
… is metaphor itself the focus of the theory. As French poetry takes more experimental forms in the twentieth century, emphasising the materiality of language, the difficulty of describing its translation becomes greater and the recourse to metaphor more urgent. Matthew Reynolds’ book on metaphor …
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Arabic Forms and Themes in Nineteenth Century German and French Poetry: Rueckert, Platen, Hugo, Lamartine, Gautier
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POETRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND CULTURAL IMBALANCES. A postcolonial approach to the current situation in Spain and France
… potential educational uses of different forms of poetry that can be read using a postcolonial approach. The focus is on contemporary France and Spain, two contexts where people with different cultural heritages coexist and need to negotiate cultural imbalances inherited from colonial and …
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Contemporary French women poets: a bilingual and critical anthology
<p>This bilingual anthology of contemporary French women poets grew out of my long-time interest in the poetry being written today in Europe and the Americas, and, in particular, the poetry written by French-speaking writers. In my research over the past two years I have noticed that very few women …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… of an extended psalter. Despite its Anglo-Norman French content and image density, internal evidence connects the manuscript to St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. This thesis builds upon the limited scholarly attention K.21 has received to date. It provides a limited reexamination of its dating, …
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Out of the Néant into the Everyday: A Rediscovery of Mallarmé's Poetics
This dissertation, focusing on the Vers de circonstance, takes issue with traditional views on Stéphane Mallarmé's aesthetics and his positioning on the relation of art to society. Whereas Mallarmé has often been branded as an ivory-tower poet, invested solely in abstract ideals and removed from …
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Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)
… dissertation examines the genre of lyric debate poetry in Old Occitan and Old French known as the tenson. It evaluates the creation, performance, and diffusion of tensons from the perspective of capital--cultural, social, and economic capital. It views tensons as negotiations between poets for …
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A Poetic and Musical Analysis of Fiancailles Pour Rire By Francis Poulenc with Poems by Louise De Vilmorin
<p>Francis Poulenc is known for setting text of lesser-known poets. He set six of Louise de Vilmorin’s poems from <em>Fiancailles pour rire</em> to music. The style in which Vilmorin writes is quite intriguing, while Poulenc’s method of setting the text brings the mysteries of her poems to life. …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre …