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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"War poetry"”.
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An examination of the war poetry of Wilfred Owen
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An examination of the war poetry of Wilfred Owen
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
The First World War had a profound effect on international literature. However, its poetic canon has remained stubbornly British. American war poetry has been excluded from the canon owing in part to vastly different war experiences. American forces did not begin to arrive in Europe until nearly …
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‘History Engraved on his Shoulder’: A Comparative Study of the Influence of British First World War Poetry on Post 1980 Iraqi War Poetry "embargoed indefinitely"
Abstract This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
… there has been a growing interest in the English poetry of the First World War. One of the products of this interest has been a great deal of literary criticism culminating in three major studies: by John H. Johnston in 1964; Bernard Bergonzi in 1965; and John Silkin in 1972. All of these critics …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
"Initially the term war poet was used to label a profusion of amateur British voices patriotically singing their soldiers off to the trenches of France. Although generally dismissed as unrealistic and escapist, popular WWI poetry shows an obsession with death that reflects deep anxieties about the …
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"Where the Deepening Thunders Call": Voice in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
… Herman Melville's 1866 collection of Civil War poetry, <em>Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War</em>, partly due to the poems' inconsistent and distanced perspectives. Melville's experimental use of poetic voice and his unconventional depiction of fictional voices within the poems contribute …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
… a psychoanalytic perspective in the First World War poetry of Siegfried Sassoon. I suggest that Sassoon, through his poetry, critiques the idea of a heteronormative, hypermasculinity that was propagated throughout the period of WW1. The pressure to perform in the hypermasculine area of war …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth …
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In London, Around 1914
… were made upon the purveyors of jingoistic war poetry. Rather than being evidence of vehement anti-commercialism, these resistances are shown to operate in the commercial interests of the little magazine. Chapter three considers the competition between rival experimentalisms, charting the …
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Tea, gammon, and coke : the eucharistic imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.
… theology of food, and twentieth-century poetry and verse drama to illustrate the cultural, material, and spiritual significance of acts of eating with Eliot and Levertov's oeuvres. Critical work in food studies, particularly as it relates to modernism and the twentieth century, often …
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Transnational women’s poetry of the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D., Sheila Wingfield
… poets across two continents to the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D. and Sheila Wingfield. This thesis considers the representation of the events and experiences of the two world wars in the work of four women poets: Lola Ridge (1873-1941), Winifred Letts (1882-1972), H.D. …
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Constructing Landscapes: Towards a Hybrid Tonality
… Winter Pass is a song cycle on texts by Edward Thomas, while In Memoriam comprises five settings of different war poets, namely, A. E. Housman, Edward Thomas, Leslie Coulson, Richard Aldington, and Willoughby Weaving. Marvellous Sweet Music sets texts from The Tempest, by William …
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Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… written during and about the American Civil War, and asks how closely related these acoustics were to their historical environment. I thus attempt to redress the dominant visual and material responses to Civil War aesthetics, in favour of attention to its sounds. I also set out to discover …
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Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz
… poets who participated actively in the Civil War of El Salvador (1980-1992), and produced their literary work in that same period. It explores, from the perspective of Nomadism developed by Rosi Braidotti, the resignification of the feminine subjectivity, as well as the construction of new …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… both Allinson and the millions dead from World War II. The cycle’s poets Sidney Keyes and Alun Lewis also number among the war’s casualties. The violent imagery of the poets’ texts supplied an appropriate framework to characterize Tippett’s ardent pacifism and his response to the losses of war. …