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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Visionary Poetics"”.
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… Blakean affinities in Emerson and Whitman, their visionary qualities - like those found in Blake's prophetic works - become freshly apparent. It will also be argued that something distinctly American can be discerned in Blake's poetry. This original approach to Emerson and Whitman challenges their …
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Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century
… Wittreich's groundbreaking critical model about visionary poetics now may be enhanced in order to reveal a more expansive and fluid Miltonic presence, particularly within much eighteenth-century visionary verse. This dissertation applies and at times refocuses Wittreich to achieve a clearer …
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats
… and challenge the ideas and ideals of visionary poetics and so assert new perspectives on literary prophecy in contradistinction to the first wave Romantics' aesthetic values and tenets. Over the course of this discussion, I look closely at Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Byron's The …
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Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism
<p>In this dissertation, Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism, I study practices of cultural mediation in “visionary” poetics from Mexico (Octavio Paz), Spain (María Zambrano), and Bolivia (Jaime Saenz). I set forth a theoretical model (“the …