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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Poetry and Poetics"”.
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A Daoist perspective on George Oppen's poetry and poetics
I use Daoist principles of ontological simplicity and the unmediated relationship between man and the ten thousand things to analyze George Oppen’s poems and poetics. First, I conduct a survey of the current state of American poetry studies and Oppen studies in China. Second, I examine Oppen’s …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
This investigation addresses formal and conceptual problems in poetry, identified through critical investigations of my own and my poetic peers’ work, and through theoretical and philosophical texts (Butler, 2000; Hegel, 1807; Owens, 1980; Rose, 1996; Kappeler, 1986). The notion of a ‘political’ …
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
… explores how early modern Spanish lyric poets and poetic theorists shaped sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture and thought through their cross- disciplinary engagement with contemporary theories and practices of memory. Focusing on the works of Juan Boscán (ca. 1488-1542), …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… is known about the influence of his librettos and poetic style in English-speaking contexts. This PhD dissertation corrects this situation. Its main argument engages nineteenth-century poetry, revealing how Wagner affected nineteenth-century verse-writing practices: how his alliterating …
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Poetry and Poetics: the Sufi Eye and the Neoplatonic Vision in Jāmī’s Salāmān u Absāl
… masnavī (narrative poem) of Salāmān and Absāl by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), the “seal of the poets” of classical Persian literature. It is a long, mystically and philosophically complex, narrative. Despite its importance, the poem’s challenging philosophical material and …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… is comprised of a collection of 35 poems, new and revised, and it will include an introduction that traces the evolution of my writing starting from early influences through my term in the UT Chattanooga graduate program. This abstract is meant to provide a context for the creative pr ocess …
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That Said
<p><em>That Said</em>, a creative thesis of poetry and poetics in two parts, explores points of contact between human interaction, capitalism, consciousness, and the process of meaning itself. The collection appropriates the language of business, scholarship, and politics alongside philosophical …
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Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh
<p>This dissertation examines the collaborative poetry and poetics of four early modern women writers: Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), Katherine Philips (1631-1664) and Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656 – 1710). It critically recovers women’s poetry and their different modes …
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A Poetics of Paradox : Reality and the Imagination in the Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek
This thesis examines the poetry and poetics of Louis Dudek, the prolific Canadian poet and critic, in order to elucidate the ways in which he balances competing realist and transcendentalist urges over the course of a career that spans more than sixty years. From his earliest “social-realist” …
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Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir
… investigates the close connection between poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course of these literary hymns in …
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Threshold moves : a ritual poetry practice
This thesis identifies and explores a practice of ritual poetry. Drawing on creative writing and embodied ritual practice, as well as theory from poetry, performance and anthropology, I form new theoretical and practical understandings of a field of ritual poetry. The thesis is driven by and …
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Desiring to bear the word : the poetry of Stevie Smith
… It shows that the dominant status of masculine poetry and poetics, and the prejudice against women poets, affected Smith's poetic style and led to her search for the source ofa feminine poetic voice. The prevailing circumstances when Smith began to publish poetry are examined in order to …
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Equinoctial: an investigation of ‘the holographic’ for developing a new collection of ekphrastic poetry
… Its practice spans the disciplines of science and art. My original contribution to knowledge is in making a claim for holography as a new context for writing ekphrastic poetry which most usually refers to poetry written in dialogue with the visual. The scholarship of ekphrasis cites examples of …
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A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements
… dissertation, "A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements," creates an interdisciplinary subfield where I use aspects of trans history and trans cultural production to uncover and document the centrality of contributions by trans poets to the …
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THE EMBRACE IS ALL: GALWAY KINNELL'S POETRY, 1950 - 1985
… dissertation contains two major parts: an essay and an extensive bibliography. The essay discusses Kinnell's poetry in order to illuminate his major themes and describe his poetics. The bibliography provides virtually complete lists of primary and secondary materials. Both essay and bibliography …
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"In a shattered language": a feminist poetics of trauma.
In a Shattered Language": A Feminist Poetics of Trauma, fuses theories of traumatic stress with studies of contemporary poetry and poetics. This project intervenes in debates over the ways trauma is experienced, remembered, and represented by positing poetry as an alternative form of discourse--one …
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Poetics of transparency: hermeneutics of Du Fu (712-770) during the Late Ming (1368-1644) and Early Qing (1644-1911) periods
Traditional Chinese poetry and poetics demonstrate a strong belief in the idea of transparency: within the Chinese tradition poetry was often considered as a transparent medium which grants reader a seemingly unmediated access to the historical past and the poet's mind. In their discussion of this …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… – among them Clément Janequin, Pierre Certon and Claude Goudimel. This supplement has often been cited as a symbol for the efforts of French humanists in the 16th century to realize a close union between music and poetry derived from the antique ideal of musiké. It arose from the ideas of the …
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Form's Philosophy: Poetry and Moral Thinking in Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill
… the kind of moral thinking at stake in the poetry and poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill. For these poet-critics, poems could be a means of articulating matters of moral and spiritual value. This emerges, however, less often by propositional statement than by …
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Bunting in Persia: A Post-War Poetics of Simultaneity
… argues that Basil Bunting refined his post-war poetics primarily through his translations from Persian, which facilitated the development of what I call his poetics of simultaneity. My first chapter examines Bunting’s early translational praxis by reading his first translation from Manūchehrī …