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Towards the poetic
… possible. To return to poetry, or rather the poetic let us look at language for a time. In ordinary language we use naming to make the world understandable and precise. We can begin to communicate reality through this naming. Thus language anchors our existence and is tied to the things by …
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Poetic expression in architecture
… in this thesis is to use poetry--that is, poetic verse--as a model for relearning the expression of architectural ideas in ways that will encourage people to speculate and to form imaginative connections. The study is in two parts: an essay and a design of a library for Barnard College.
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The poetic function in architecture : an exploration into the potential poetic agency of space
… This is studied through the investigation of the poetic function in architecture which operates through the ethically based vectors which are giver direction to the forces which mutate the repertoire of society through architectural gestures. The Spatial Agency framework presents a number …
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American Poetic Drama: 1900-1966
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TRUTH written in Poetic Lines
… the Earth with Nothing but the Truth written in Poetic lines. My humble approach to create is to carve out the TRUTH into being from not being, to stay honest to the site and be noble in the cause. Through my investigation, my objective is to establish a life style with a serene environment. A …
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The problem of the poetic revolutionary
… of texts by writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance from …
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had …
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Some elements of modern poetic technique
… poet and in what way they are unique to the poetic tradition. The standpoint taken is that of a poet situated in the Western cultural and poetic tradition and a poetics is endorsed that holds that poems may be the site of evaluation, specifically in terms of technique. The thesis excludes …
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A poetic pilgrimage towards a cosmopolitan world
The practice-based research-dissertation or “poetic-philosophical praxis” referred to and explored in this Reflective Commentary concerns two major topics: the artistic and intellectual work of the second UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (1905 – 1961) and the implications of that work for a …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… literary theory and in particular the theory of poetic language by developing a theory of metonymy as a literary trope. After a critical assessment of available views on metonymy, the first part of the thesis sets out to explore and analyse the aesthetic status, structure and poetic function of …
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Cinema's Poetic Function: Creating an Amorous Distance
… thesis is to examine how cinema can embrace its poetic function to avoid its assimilation into preexisting hermeneutic structures, which would leave it vulnerable to myth as defined by Roland Barthes, and instead be a generative force, encouraging its viewer to engage with the full potential of …
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Education and the Experience of Poetic Meaning
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On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration
The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic activity of the talented poet, in implicit contrast with that of the …
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Out of Prison: Towards a Poetic Freedom
… points of view, I intend to illuminate where my poetic search is heading: while in *Con sprezzatura* and *Album* I emphasise different strategies for variation, in my opera *Aufbruch* I stress musical-theatrical relationships, taking in a study of rhythmic prose. From the large orchestral piece …
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Poetic lives: Verse biography in Aotearoa New Zealand
… imagine their subjects’ afterlives in sensory poetic terms. While this selection is diverse, and showcases a wide range of subject matter, poetic approach and voices, each of these verse biographies dramatizes the subject position of the poet, and partakes in a poetics of intersectional …
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