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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Modern poetry"”.
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
"""Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry"" seeks to make one of the essential categories of modernity---labor---equally essential to our history of modern American poetry. The study starts by uncovering how work, workers, and working-class political movements of the first half of the …
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A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva
… Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry (such as Elizabeth Bishop) defies traditional patriarchal discourse as dominant literary devices while embracing plurality and inherent virtues of the female voice. My project will trace Kristeva's semiotic/psychoanalytic evolution …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
<p>The literary history of Modern and Postmodern poetry needs to be rewritten because much of this poetry throws into doubt the very language which critics normally use to write such histories. Furthermore, Modern poetry provides a more adequate, because less rigid, sense of poetic “tradition” upon …
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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
This thesis explores how modern poetry is shaped by its relationships with academic and historical texts. Occasioned by creative writers’ increasing involvement in the academy, it considers the consequences of this relationship for contemporary poetry praxis. Through close readings of David Jones’ …
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Kentering wending knik. Dynamiek in modern dichterschap
… poets that are central to our understanding of modern Dutch poetry discuss only a small part of their complete poetic works. It questions the assumption in the academic study of literature that a select number of works embodies the central themes and occupations of modern poetry most clearly. …
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Theto ya sebjalebjale ya maitekelo (Sepedi)
… 1991 is a crucially important period is Sepedi poetry, because in these years the greatest proportion of the volumes of poetry currently available was published. This study discusses the characteristics of modern Sepedi poetry, focusing on selected poems by certain Sepedi poets. The poems …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
… of the past--led her to a careful analysis of modern poetry. She recognized the greatness of British literature, but she also recognized a need for change; this need for change and the possibilities for variations within the accepted forms became the foundation of her criticism and her poetry. …
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A study of Greek and Roman mythology in the poetry of today.
… term paper prepared for English 250, Present Day Poetry, taught by Dr. A. J. Armstrong in the summer of 1940. A brief study of Greek and Roman mythology in modern poetry was made by examining the anthology, The New Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. Although some facts …
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Metaphors of the sea : a critical study of five Anglo-Saxon poems
… is an essential and distinctive element of all poetry and, to be genuine, to be alive, and to be ever-interesting, a poem must achieve itself through metaphor. A poem's unique mode of vision is metaphoric, and whatever it communicates we perceive in and through metaphor. This is an axiomatic …
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Tactics and Tradition in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath
… University in the year of the publication of Modern Poetry and the Tradition, a radical organizer on the 1940s New York City waterfront, a Rhodes Scholar, the first poet published by Alan Swallow, and a Los Angeles teacher and screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s. McGrath's career both places …
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Diane Wakoski: an annotated bibliography of secondary materials
… people can deny. In the <i>Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry</i>, Wakoski 's images are classified as "shocking" and “adventurous” --they have a strong "narrative" and "didactic" interest. Mainly, her poems are "expressions of a lively personality," but she requires them to have "some kind of …
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Anthologizing Modernism: New Verse Anthologies, 1913-53
… to what is often called the Greek Anthology--a modern term and not the title of one ancient work. Though there are fragments of earlier collections, Meleager of Gadara's Stephanos (or Garland) is the first known poetry anthology and dates to approximately 100 BC. Anthologies of English poetry …
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PSALM 63: A STUDY OF ITS IMAGERY AND THEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PSALTER
… Part One addresses issues about the nature of poetry, its definition, elements, and the role which imagery played in the ancient Near East, biblical and modern poetry. It includes an analysis of the nature of metaphor. Part Two constitutes the central part of this study, as it focuses on the …
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Rognvald’s Compass: Navigating Inspiration from Orkneyinga Saga’s Imprint
… Kolsson bequeathed a twelfth-century legacy of poetry woven into Orkneyinga Saga; this thesis explores the relationship with contemporary writers who have produced their own saga-inspired work based on his original imprint. The central argument addresses a particular research gap, evaluating …
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The Language of Real Life: Self-possession in the Poetry of Paul Celan, T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Valéry
… conveys the importance he attributes to poetry when he states: “Language is the house of being” (“Letter” 239). In response to his early Jesuit education, he developed a secular alternative to theology with his existential phenomenology. Theology, poetry, and phenomenology share the basic …
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The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse
The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse juxtaposes ancient and Renaissance uses of the Muse to retrieve her from the status of mere literary convention. I draw on Hans Blumenbergs 'reoccupation' (Umbesetzung) thesis, which locates in philosophy concerns originally raised in myth, to argue …
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Themes in the poetry of Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane discusses three major themes in his poetry. He experimented with various techniques and literary philosophies, including imagism, symbolism, naturalism and realism. The only consistent factor in his own expressed philosophy was a desire to adhere to the truth. His poetry is free …
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What more is there to be said?: modern poets on visual art
… ways in which visual art can play a role in poetry. It:<br/><br/>(i) looks at a variety of poems about representational art to assess in what ways such poems do or do not work effectively (Chapter 1: Representing Representation: Introductory Remarks);<br/>(ii) examines the application of …
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Contemporary French women poets: a bilingual and critical anthology
… poets grew out of my long-time interest in the poetry being written today in Europe and the Americas, and, in particular, the poetry written by French-speaking writers. In my research over the past two years I have noticed that very few women poets from France have received the critical …
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