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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lyric Subjectivity"”.
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
<p>This dissertation investigates ethics and lyric subjectivity in the writings of three American women poets. I consider select poems and poetics of Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, and Elizabeth Robinson, in order to argue that their postlanguage lyric poetry retains lyric subjectivity and …
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'A me stesso di me pietate vène.' Lyric Subjectivity in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime
This thesis 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 …
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The ambition of melancholy: the aesthetics of heroism in the lyric poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera
Spanish appropriation of Petrarchan lyric in the sixteenth century was motivated by the desire to raise the cultural status of Spain to match that of its imperial presence on the world’s stage. As this thesis will argue, ‘melancholic heroism’, an attitude that was central to the construction of the …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
… through the prison poem's emphasis on the poet's lyric subjectivity. Chapter four traces the appropriation of the motifs of prophecy by Persian prison poets who aspired for a sovereignty that exceeding the boundaries of material power. Chapter five offers detailed exegeses of the two most …
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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War
… tradition nourished on humanism, Russian lyric poetry in the second half of the twentieth century absorbed the peculiar features of Western modernism and emerging postmodernism, stepping into the terrain of posthumanism.</p> <p>I focus on how three seminal Russian poets—Joseph Brodsky, …