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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Poetry and philosophy"”.
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Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante
This dissertation examines the nature and influence of the structural complexity of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy on Dante’s Commedia, arguing that the latter is a deliberate response to the former. The General Introduction sets the groundwork through a survey of the major scholarship on …
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Van siters en skalmeie
… the (often controversial) relationship between poetry and philosophy in the context of the Afrikaans poetic heritage. It consists of two components: a portfolio of own poetry and an essay in which it is argued that against the backdrop of the poststructural zeitgeist, the relationship between …
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize </p><p>bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and integral to dynamic economies of </p><p>activity and passivity. This dissertation traces the origins and histories of this definition </p><p>of affect, from the Latin …
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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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Judah Halevi, religious thinker and poet : comparative study of his "Kuzari" and poetry
… study in which Judah Halevi's main ideas and teachings as they find expression in his philosophical work "The Kuzari" are compared and contrasted with their treatment in his poetical work. We feel that such a contrasting and comparative study may bring us nearer to a more comprehensive …
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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
Wordsworth's poetry is typically seen by critics as healthy-minded, rich in themes of transcendence, synthesis, and optimism. The poet in this respect is contrasted with the other great poets of the Romantic tradition--Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Blake--who are all generally related to the …
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… view of the relationship between technology and the body by analyzing some of her poetry in her <em>Collected Poems</em> and her philosophy of poetry in her book <em>The Life of Poetry</em>. The thesis also deals with the relationship between science and art; Rukeyser thought of science and …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… in Cyprus, was divided by a ‘green line’ in 1964 and remains the last divided capital city in Europe. This thesis deploys poesis and performance to interrogate the border as a site of reminiscence at the intersection of multiple and contested collective memory-narratives. In order to explore the …
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La démarche poétique de Claire Lejeune
Claire Lejeune, the Belgian francophone poet and essayist, was born in 1926, and is well now known in feminist studies in Quebec and the United States. However, as of yet, no doctoral thesis has been elaborated on her work. We have restricted the corpus of the Ph D. to the author's essays, and will …
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Being aesthetic after the American midcentury: Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery
… recover a neglected point of encounter between poetry and philosophy in postwar modernity: the crucial yet previously unexplored conjunction between first-generation New York poetry and philosophical aesthetics. Despite an increasing critical emphasis on the intellectual dimensions of New York …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
… thesis investigates the exploration of the self and the innovative poetical language in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his …