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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"W.H."”.
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Myths of place : the importance of landscape in the poetries of W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney
Numerous studies of landscape in the works of Wordsworth and his predecessors exist; very few books, however, are concerned with its significance in modern and contemporary poetry. Works on Auden and Heaney make reference to local elements, but do not consider the overall and continuous importance …
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Re-making the Auden canon : new readings and critical interpretations of W.H. Auden's 1930's poems based on revised texts
Much of W. H. Auden's most brilliantly evocative poetry was written during the 1930's. His skill in catching the tones, the topics of his time, and his ability to evoke its moods and its social turbulence are unequalled among those of his generation writing of political unrest, international crises …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
My dissertation considers W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's stereoscopic poetic witness. It focuses on movement, place, and gratitude in the Atlantic world, as both authors recurrently travel beyond national boundaries. Both poets use a stereoscopic vision, a nuanced imaginative rendering of the …
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The quest dialectic : the Jungian and Kierkegaardian quest for unity in W.H. Auden's "The quest," New Year letter, and for the time being
The subject of this dissertation is W. H. Auden's use of the Jungian psychology of individuation and the Kierkegaardian theology of existence. Its purpose is to demonstrate the importance of Jungian and Kierkegaardian thought in poetry written during 1939 through 1942, the first four years of …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
This thesis comprises three main components: firstly, close readings and critical analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed”, The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter”, and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a serial …
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Ontwikkeling van spirocyclische vitamine D3 analoga met potentiële dissociatie van biologische activiteiten
Since the discovery that 1α,25(OH)2D3 (calcitriol), the hormonally active metabolite of vitamin D3, possesses, next to its classical calciotropic activity, also cell differentiating and antiproliferative activities, there has been a search for analogues in which a dissociation of calcemic and other …
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A Country With No Name
A Country With No Name is a collection of thirty-four poems with a preface explaining the style and influences of the author. The preface defends plain-language techniques in poetry, using W.H. Auden, Wislawa Szymborska, and Paul Simon as examples of poets who take a similar approach. The poems …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
This work explores identity positions of speakers in modern and contemporary poetry with respect to themes of subjectivity, self-awareness, lyricism, heteroglossia, and social contextualization, from perspectives including Bakhtinian, queer, feminist and postructuralist theories, and Peircian …
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Respublica: A Collection of Original Poems
My dissertation is a book of poems, a creative meditation on salvation history (in the Christian tradition) and its relevance for contemporary America. Inspired by the readings of the Easter Vigil, W.H. Auden’s Sonnets from China, the genealogy of Christ found in the first chapter of St. Matthew’s …
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Fictitious Ecology
<p> My thesis project, The Mountain Fog, is a children’s picture book pitch that tells a light-hearted story of two dogs who must face an environmental disaster. In this accompanying critical essay, I break down the process of crafting a fictional relationship between author-illustrator, animal …
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Militancy, commitment, and Marxist ideology in the fiction of Dan Billany
Dan Billany (1913-1943?) published only four novels, yet in those novels he engages in the debates that preoccupy Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Billany’s view of the period, however, differs from that of his more famous contemporaries. As a young working class man, he challenges contemporary …
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A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence
<p>This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate …
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Sorry Guard
Sorry Guard is a collection of poems with a critical introduction on poetic form. Form in poetry can be revealed vocally (how the poem sounds), temporally (how the poem makes use of time), and spatially (how the poem is visualized, both physically on the page due to typography and imagistically due …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
<p>“Twisting Tales” is a guidebook examining fairytales and the realm of fairytale adaptation. To begin with, I define fairytales by expanding on Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories”. By defining fairytales as abstracted tales set in the realm of Faerie, adaptations of fairytales become an avenue in …
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A GIS Approach to Modeling Groundwater Levels in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer
<p>Groundwater depletion, a subject of growing concern for a significant portion of Arkansas, may lead to future economic challenges for the Arkansas Delta region. The Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer is the uppermost aquifer and features the largest groundwater capacity in the Mississippi …
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Gasification of rubberwood in a downdraft gasifier
The objectives of this research were to investigate the perforamnce of a rubberwood gasifier and engine with electricity generation and to identify opportunities for the implementation of such a system in Malaysia. The experimental work included the design, fabrication and commissioning of a …
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Effect of high pressure on the rates of electron exchange reactions / William Harry Jolley.
Three electron exchange reactions, under high pressure, were studied, using radioisotope tracers to follow the reactions.
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
This dissertation examines the interplay of queer sexuality, theology, and transatlantic modernism in the oeuvres and critical receptions of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Hart Crane (1899-1932), and W.H. Auden (1907-1973). As an interdisciplinary study in literary criticism and of each author’s reception …
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