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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Narrative Poetry"”.
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… research concerns the use of song within narrative works in the Middle Ages. I have concentrated first on the substantial tradition in Old French of incorporating songs in this manner; and second, on the importance of this tradition to Chaucer, a poet who includes songs in nearly all his …
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The Role of The Omniscient Narrator in Nineteenth-Century British Narrative Poetry
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One virtue and a thousand crimes”: (Re-)writing narrative poetry, an ekphrastic approach
This paper accompanies a poetry collection, The Adept, which is plot-driven and follows the development of a relationship which might, in modern terms, be described as involving ‘coercive control’. The piece was inspired by two source texts, Walter Scott’s Marmion (1808) and Lord Byron’s The …
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The Wound Is (Not) Real
… “the wound” as a space of semiotic, subjective, narrative, and hegemonic rupture, The Wound Is (Not) Real interrogates trauma and its effects on the formation of adolescent masculinity. Synthesizing and rejecting the conventions of lyric-narrative poetry, the prose poem, critical prose, and the …
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The Walled Fortress: An Autoethnography Of An International Student Who Became An Esl Educator
… a layered account whereby I weave personal narrative, poetry, and sketching into academic writing so as to reach the emotive core of the research. I explore complex discriminatory relations in the classroom and beyond and learn how I as an ESL professional have played an active role in …
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Deconstruction's Place in Western Thought: Philosophic and Figurative Language
… philosophy. Theories resulting from the study of narrative, poetry, speech acts, and historiography examine the relationship between literal and figurative levels of meaning in texts. Reading Western texts in an interdisciplinary manner to identify their figurative levels offers new possibilities …
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Night of No Exile
… a curse': A Blissful Reading of Li-Young Lee's Poetry." That article discusses Lee's quest to achieve communication, truth, and transcendence through poetic language and concludes that he finally reaches his goal through a leap from narrative poetry to lyricism. The "exile" alluded to in the …
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Americhicano
… journey as a writer. In the Section titled, “On Narrative Poetry” I explore the tradition of narrative in poetry and culture and how the two come together within my own poetry. “Uncertainty and Possibility” talks about the duality of creation and the writer. Do we view the unknown as something …
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“neither boy nor man”: Transnational Trade Identity in Canada’s Typographical Trade Press, 1860-1900
… of printing, I demonstrate how journeymen used narrative, poetry, correspondence, humour, and visual devices as defensive tools to reinforce and protect the trade’s aristocratic labour identity and to associate the work of typesetting with masculinity, skill, superior intelligence, and …
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A Taxonomy of Ache
A collection of poetry that primarily deals with Appalachian voice and environmental issues, navigating queer identities in rural spaces, and violence against the female body.
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Tales Unsuitable for Children and Other Poems
My thesis is a collection of poetry that documents my experience with relationships, jobs, parenthood, life in a "bar family," and working in a nursing facility. Crafted, mostly, in free verse, these poems are meant to serve as a representation of my own life.
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Gender and Genre in Medieval Chivalric Rímur
… to be negotiated in chivalric rímur (rhymed narrative poetry) of the fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. There has been very little literary criticism of medieval rímur at all, and while aspects of gender in these texts are sometimes touched upon in studies of individual …
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Lost in Perception
Lost in Perception is a manuscript of narrative poems that are unflinching honest explorations of the self—emotional states-of-mind such as anxiety and anger, and states-of-being such as feelings of self-worthlessness. Confessional in nature these poems derive from familial relationships, domestic …
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After Horses
After Horses is a a collection of narrative and verse poems centered loosely around the idea or theme of how to create meaning from the fracture and detritus of daily life. Also under obsessive consideration throughout: loneliness, the risk of human connection, the risk of a lack of human …
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Given: F(A Great Love + a Missing Body)
… love and mathematics at its core. The lyric and narrative poems navigate an affair between a female narrator and her lover. The math is positioned with the verse in the way an ekphrastic poem might be positioned next to the art upon which it is based. The connection and alienation of the form …