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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Love poetry."”.
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UNCAGING CICADAS: Lover, Beloved, and Reader in Contemporary Love Poetry
… Utterback – in the context of the tradition of love poetry and the overarching critical discourses offered by Erik Gray's. The Art of Love Poetry, Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, and Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse. I argue that the lover-poets, in these poems, attempt to overcome what …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the …
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The growth of the vision of E.E. Cummings: an analysis of specific themes in the love poetry
… of the development of specific themes in the love poetry of Cummings. This thesis investigates two major themes from the early love poetry (the volumes of 1923 - c. 1938) and two from the later love poetry (the volumes of c. 1940 - 1963) and proposes a movement of the themes toward affirmation …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… Elizabethan court. Yet when these anti-courtly love poems gained popularity in the early seventeenth century, collectors must have overlooked their original politics. For they regularly gathered these poems in manuscript verse miscellanies among verses that attack not Elizabeth's court but the …
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"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy
The vein of experimental love poetry examined in this project takes advantage of the friction generated by charging both form and content with innovation. The troubled relationship between sex and power is knit directly into the long and dynamic history of love poetry, but there has yet to be a …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… life and work of Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a love poet and panegyrist who died in AH 106 / 725 in his hometown of Medina, in the Hijaz. The dissertation reexamines the rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, and offers a new perspective on the relationship …
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Thirty-three poems
… reflect at length on both the process of writing love poetry and on the poems and other works which have influenced the composition of these thirty-three pieces.
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… to the classical genres of the mainstream, epic, love-poetry and tragedy, Bakhtin rates Menippean texts as being essentially dialogic, engaged in exploring ideas of life and death from the perspective of a carnivalistic view ofthe world. He uses the genre of the Greek Romance, seen by him as a …
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Robert Southwell Exponent of Religious Poetry in the Elizabethan Age
… lovable crusader for better norms in the art of poetry In the troubled times of the Elizabethan Age, Among literary historians Robert Southwell is invariably considered a minor Catholic poet whose spiritual beliefs led him eventually to forfeit his life as a traitor to the Crown. |In the …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
… of ritual practice in early modern English poetry. Reconstructing a cultural history that centralizes the continuing role of Catholicism in the period, I historicize the poetic figuration of both traditional and reform practices in love poetry. The study explores the work of poets writing in …
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The gentil example : thematic parallels in Froissart's Chroniques and Chaucer's Franklin's tale
… sources and analogues in selections of their poetry, were at least aware of each other personally, and were born into similar social backgrounds. What remains to be done, and what has received little critical attention in the decades since serious work began on the similarities between them, …
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The Courage to Attune: The Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God in the Context of the Self-Other Relation
… is employed, which analyzes eros in John Donne's love poetry (chapter two), compassion in Simone Weil's letters, essays, and notebooks (chapter three) and contemplation in Book X of Augustine's Confessions (chapter four). Throughout, close attention is paid to the interweaving of form and content …
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Personalism in John Donne's Art
… letters and sermons at the same time as love poetry and divine poetry. All are the product of a single imagination, and no genre necessarily precludes personalism. The first chapter looks at Donne's approach to art. Because he rarely writes explicitly about art itself, his approach must …
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A Poet for all Seasons: a Study of the Writings of Gómez Manrique
… divide his work into categories such as his love poetry, debate poetry, moral works and his political writing, here it is argued that these areas of his work do not fall neatly into discrete categories as there is much overlap among them. For this reason an attempt is made to trace the …
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"This stage of woe" : the petrarchanism of Mary Wroth
… which comments on and contributes to English love poetry. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is addressed from a female lover to a male beloved, and this thesis discusses the implications of this unusual Petrarchan gender configuration .It explores the ways in which Wroth's Pamphilia encounters, is …
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… who includes songs in nearly all his narrative poetry, and who was deeply familiar with many of the late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century French works of this type. In order to demonstrate the connection between this very large range of French narratives and Chaucer, it has been …
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'A me stesso di me pietate vène.' Lyric Subjectivity in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime
… examines articulations of subjectivity in the love-lyric corpus of Guido Cavalcanti (c.1258-1300). That Cavalcanti has a central role in the development of the modern lyric subjectivity is widely accepted in scholarship. The present study aims to deepen current understanding of Cavalcanti’s …
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Bird Bones and a Hatched Egg
A fifty page manuscript of poetry and a critical introduction detailing the poet's aesthetics. Using the idea of the double-image and eroticism, the poet places her work in the category of the surreal. She describes the process of writing poetry born of fragmentary elements as a feminist emergence …
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