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The Teaching of German Poetry in The High School
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German Translations and Criticism of the Danish Medieval Ballad to 1853
In this investigation we sought to examine all German translations and criticism of Danish medieval ballads published between 1766, the year in which the first German version appeared, and 1853, the year in which the first fascicle of the critical edition of the Danish ballads, Danmarks gamle …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… of ancient Greek texts, chiefly from lyric poetry and tragedy, is examined and metonymic occurrences are isolated. Contrasting categories of metonymy are established as they emerge from the corpus and analysed in their individual structure and shared characteristics. Further examples from …
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
My dissertation explores the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eduard Mörike, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and it contends that these modern poets retain, albeit uneasily, a view of things as symbols of the transcendent divine. It thus disputes the secularization theory of post- Enlightenment …
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Transports of imagination: poetry and the rehabilitation of experience, 1830–1860
This dissertation examines how poets of the German late romantic and restoration periods between 1830 and 1860 disrupt the systematizing drive of technological, cultural, and industrial advancements during the nineteenth century in Germany by establishing connections with the past: both a …
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The imagery of time and season in the German Baroque and Romantic poetry
<p>Historians of German literature generally agree that the decisive turning point in the reappraisal of German Baroque literature was largely due to Heinrich Wölfflin’s seminal study <i>Renaissance und Barock: Eine Untersuchung über Wesen und Entstehung des Barockstils in ltalien</i> (1888). This …