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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Lyric poetry"”.
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A study of deixis in relation to lyric poetry.
… role of deixis in a specific literary genre, the lyric poem. Deixis is seen as not only a fundamental aspect of human discourse, but the prime function in the construction of 'world-view' and the expression of subjective reference. In the first part of the thesis current problems in deictic theory …
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Affective Mapping: Voice, Space, and Contemporary British Lyric Poetry
… of the spatial nature of the contemporary lyric poem (broadly reducible to the poem as and the poem of space) combines with voicing and affect in the act of reading poetry to create a third way in which space operates in the lyric: the ‘vocalic space’ of the voiced lyric poem. Together with …
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A Commentary on the Lyric Poetry of Andrew Marvell
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Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… investigates the acoustic resources of lyric poems written during and about the American Civil War, and asks how 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 …
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The Partial Critics: Modern Criticism and the Evaluation of Lyric Poetry
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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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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 Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
… works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed and an investigation of confessional writing within their work is undertaken. While not all authors use a direct confessional voice, the overall effect of their writing creates an intimate space …
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Wind, Wave, and Generative Metaphor in Greek
… that the more sophisticated trope of Archaic lyric poetry is an elaboration of a larger cognitive metaphor that appears in the earliest Greek texts.
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“Lord I am 1”: The Solitary “I” and the Social Lyric
… which sociality and isolation are understood in lyric poetry. When Theodor Adorno begins his 1957 lecture “On Lyric Poetry and Society,” by suggesting that the topic “will make many […] uncomfortable,” he identifies that discomfort with the tendency, as he puts it, to “experience lyric poetry as …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… is primarily concerned with the limitations of lyric poetry, the monumentality of poetic composition, and the difficulties of representing one’s traumatized memory. I will bolster this reading with a comparative study of the poem’s manuscripts that interprets the rough and fair copies of Owen’s …
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中古诗人对“远意”的追求--以谢灵运、陶渊明为例 = The pursuit of overtone of "Distance" in Wei-Jin Lyric poetry: Exemplified by Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming.
… is a poetic tradition of Chinese classical poetry. The orgin, evolution and materity of this tradition all completed in Wei-Jin period. The overtone of ?Distance? means self transcendence in the real world. The main themes about the pursuit of overtone of ?Distance? almost occurs in the …
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Begetting the Apple: Poems from Women of the Bible
… penetrating look at the concept of confessional poetry, and as such, the effect that personal experience and feelings have on crafting poetry. The project defines this type of lyric poetry as the “revealing of personal and emotional experience within the space of language.” The concluding …
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Early English and French Lyrical Poetry: A Comparative Study
Self-revelation is the chief characteristic of lyric poetry,and for that reason it is, perhaps, more interesting than any other. A flashlight of intuition fuses emotion and idea and from the resulting union,secret and elusive,springs the lyric mood. Add to this latter a gift of expression, …
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To Sing Of Mountains
To Sing of Mountains is a collection of lyric poetry that consists of twenty-six free verse poems and one ghazal. The poems call upon the ancient mountains as witnesses to civilizations of past and present, using them to trace the cycles of cultural and geographic change that occur throughout the …
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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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Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric.
… the difficult problem of transcendence in lyric poetry by analyzing the themes of eroticism, transcendence and the sacred in the Roman poet Catullus and tracing the reception of Catullus in English lyric in Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Carew. I argue that the function of the erotic in lyric …
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Music and the English Lyric Poem: Explporations in Conceptual Blending
Music and The English Lyric Poem: Explorations in Conceptual Blending Although lyrics are addressed primarily to the ear, the development of lyric poetry, that is of 'lyrical' poetry that is not necessarily meant to be sung , is partly the consequence of the rise of print communication and tends to …
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Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric
… parts. The first investigates the theory of the lyric in the work of Theodor W. Adorno. The second entails an engagement with that theory through a collection of original lyric poems. The three case studies of the critical apparatus track how it is that Adorno’s conception of the lyric serves as …
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