Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Historical Poetics"”.
-
Done to death? Re-evaluating narrative construction in slasher sequels.
… Kristin Thompson, working within the domain of 'historical poetics,' even the most conventionalised systems of narrative operate according to complex constructive processes, often perceptible only to those willing to engage in close scrutiny. The reluctance to engage with slasher sequels as …
-
Poetics of the videogame setpiece
… these principles exist to serve. Following a historical poetics approach that relates practices of media exhibitionism to the perpetual innovation economy of digital games, this thesis argues that the setpiece is a meaningful site of fluid agency play within games, enabling complex narrative …
-
Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… closely related these acoustics were to their historical environment. I thus attempt to redress the dominant visual and material responses to Civil War aesthetics, in favour of attention to its sounds. I also set out to discover whether lyric poetry, now held to be an essentially sounded …
-
Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… about sexuality (Burton), and the discovery of a historical precedent for marginal desires (Corvo). Throughout, the work of Roland Barthes provides a theoretical basis for considering the binaristic structure of these texts. Barthes, who was self-confessedly ‘enamoured of binarisms’, provides a …
-
The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… I invest in three different methods of enquiry – historical poetics, philosophical aesthetics, and material text studies – to show how the many theories of poetic analysis which have been developed in recent decades are most valuable when they are mutually reinforcing. Chapter 1, ‘History’, …
-
The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
This study of the “Blues Aesthetic” both supplements and revises the now-dominant socio-aesthetic paradigm by introducing the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed …
-
Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… of representation, I argue, there appears a historical arc as the future-oriented promise of the ‘ambient lyricism’ that Apollinaire proposes at the start of the century gradually fades further into the background noise of his successors’ historical present.