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New light on E.E. Cummings' drama, Him
E. E. Cummings' avant-garde drama, Him (1927) is the subject of this study. As poet and painter, Cummings drew a picture of the play for the cover of the "sacrosanct" [his word) first edition. This picture is a unique psychological rebus-mandala. The rebus concept of the ancient Chinese picture …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
On the theoretical level, this dissertation develops, illustrates, and documents an 11-point typology of syntactic aesthetic effects which provides a working theoretical model for the study of the aesthetic use of syntax. Following Leech and Nowottny, it is argued that these effects represent the …
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Between Language and Voice: A Study of Aesthetic Experimentation in Blake, Whitman, Cummings, and Concrete Poetry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405655.pdf: 7207759 bytes, checksum: b3f95ce91449dff8bf571f7367c8bfa5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The growth of the vision of E.E. Cummings: an analysis of specific themes in the love poetry
Throughout the career of E. E. Cummings critics maintained that the poet displayed a lack of growth in his vision. Such a criticism fails in an analysis of the development of specific themes in the love poetry of Cummings. This thesis investigates two major themes from the early love poetry (the …
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The illumination of E. E. Cummings' poetry in J. A. C. Redford's "love is the every only god"
… piano accompaniment based on six poems by E. E. Cummings. The work is organized into six movements with two interludes and lasts approximately twenty-five minutes. Beyond his regard for the art of poetry and care in choosing a text, Redford sees himself as an illuminator of the text, providing …
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Movement in Relation to Diction and Imagery in E. E. Cummings' Elegy "My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love"
<p>E. E. Cummings' elegy "my father moved through dooms of love" has been singled out by Theodore Spencer as "one of the finest lyrics America has produced. Several other critics have cited this poem as an example of Cummings' syntactical experimentation and his penchant for endowing commonplace …
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Nature ternua nature
… Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, and e.e. cummings. The four poems share the common theme of nature. The selected poems are 'South Winds Jostle Them', 'The Murmuring of Bees' (both by Dickinson), 'Pastoral' (Williams), and 'and what were roses' (cummings). The duration of the song-cycle is …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… Muggeridge, Paul Robeson, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, Abraham Cahan, and many others. This study examines the works of four of these …
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"When the President Says 'Democracy'": Examining the Relationship Between Presidential Discourse and Democritizatsiia in Kazakhstan
… though with limited liberalization (Cummings, 2002, p. 9). Kazakhstan has neither established the anomalous democracy as its most influential neighbor in Eastern Europe, Russia, nor has become the extreme sultanism like its Central Asian fellow, Turkmenistan. According to Cummings …
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Developing courseware to support online discussion
… Aided with the help of Professor Jonathon Cummings 15.351 course (Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship), I measured student and peer-to-peer interaction via online discussion boards and user-generated interest in the subject matter. Based on the data received from this discussion …
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Parental behaviors and late adolescents' adjustment: The role of emotional security and emotional intelligence
Based on hypothesized relations advanced by Cummings and Davies (1995), the current study tests the hypothesis that parental availability and parental control, experienced during middle adolescence, relate to late adolescents' adjustment through influence on their emotional security. The study also …
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Finding the Self
… the craft techniques of Billy Collins, E. E. Cummings, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brenda Hillman, Ted Kooser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lynn McMahon, Mary Oliver, Charles Olsen, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens. Additionally, Mark Strand and Evan Boland are featured for their commentary on …
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Now All the Fingers of This Tree
… based upon a poem of the same name by E. E. Cummings. It is divided into two movements: The first movement is scored for nine part solo soprano, where one performer records each of the nine vocal lines. The second movement is an electro-acoustic work derived from four phrases of the original …
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THE COMIC DIMENSION: A NEW READING OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' LONG POEM "PATERSON"
… with hidden portraits of Eliot, Pound, E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane and other poets. Only when Paterson is read as the imaginative biography of a misunderstood major poet with a taste for satire can Williams' full unity of purpose be understood.</p><p>Chapters one through three highlight …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Malcolm Cowley, Morley Callaghan, Robert McAlmon, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Beach, Archibald MacLeish, Glenway Wescott, Louis Bromfield, Edith Wharton, Natalie Clifford Barney, William Faulkner, …
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… Williams, Laurence Vail, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and Nathanael West, and was affected by Gertrude Stein, are examined in chapters 4 to 11. DADÁ / EEUU: CONEXIONES ENTRE EL MOVIMIENTO DADAÍSTA Y OCHO NARRADORES NORTEAMERICANOS El propósito de esta tesis es investigar, dentro del marco …
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junction
… line breaks, inspired by the poetry of E.E. Cummings, as well as prose poetry. While the short stories have a traditional structure, the vignettes are less narrative and more impressionistic. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first has a greater focus on relationships between people, …
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Sensitive fathering as a moderator between maternal depression and adolsecent internalizing and externalizing behavior
… Bureau, Easterbrooks, & Ruth-Lyons, 2009; Cummings et al. 2005; increased behavior problems and psychopathology; Garstein & Sheeber, 2004)? Secondary statistical analyses were ran on 498 families of adolescents using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… modernist authors like Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Cummings produced for child readers, modernist children's literature remains a largely neglected field. Examining texts by A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner), Gertrude Stein (The World is Round), and J.M. Barrie (Peter and …
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