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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"epic poem"”.
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Rivonia
The thesis is entitled ‘Rivonia’ and comprises an epic poem written in the form of ten separate interlinking dramatic monologues and a critical and reflective commentary. The poem is called ‘Rivonia’ and it is about the Rivonia Trial at which Nelson Mandela and six co-accused were sentenced to life …
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Adrift
… her when she was young. Loosely based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey (in which Odysseus' son, Telemakos, sets out to look for his lost father), the novel traces Telemaka's search for her father through an endless string of lovers. The novel opens in 2005, when Telemaka is in her late twenties, …
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Eve and the creation cycle: Christina Rossetti's reaction to John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
… and most specifically, her reaction to Milton's depiction of Eve in Paradise Lost. She reconstructs Milton's Eve in her own poetry. This treatise will examine a selection of poetry by Christina Rossetti, in specific her depiction of Eve, as a reaction to Milton's Eve in his epic poem.
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A comparison of Richard Wagner's Der ring des Nibelungen and William Morris's Sigurd the volsung
… of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the epic poem Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Chapter I begins with an outline of the question under discussion, namely, whether Sigurd the Volsung could have been written as an anti-ring. The rest of the thesis discusses various questions of …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… “Corky” Gonzalez penned his now canonical, epic poem “I Am Joaquin.” The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny<em>.</em> Coinciding with a series of renewed, sociopolitical campaigns, …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… (ostensibly Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, originally titled Commedia. This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those people who lived during his lifetime, and examines his possible motivation for targeting enemy Ghibellines, Black Guelphs, …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
… on his twilight tension between cultures, in the epic poem Omeros and the book-length poem Tiepolo's Hound.
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The Epic Structure and Subversive Messages of Æmilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
… Deus Rex Judæorum, an ideologically subversive poem of some 3000 lines extolling the virtue of women and codifying the perfidy of men. Lanyer's poem may be the first epic published in modern English; it is certainly the first epic ever published by an Englishwoman. I base my assertion largely …
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Four Phases of Subjectivity: A Rhetorical and Phenomenological Analysis of Aimé Césaire And Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal
… of the subjectivity that Césaire portrays in his epic poem <em>Cahier d’un retour au pays natal</em>, or <em>Notebook of a Return to My Native Land</em>. Césaire published and republished <em>Cahier </em>four times in a 17-year period and the modified accounts of subjectivity presented in the …
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DIEGESIS A multi-agent Digital Interactive Storytelling framework using planning and re-planning techniques
… models the story of Troy, derived from Homer’s epic poem, “Iliad”, which we used to perform a number of evaluations based on metrics that we chose and we consider valuable for the DIS field. This collection of requirements and evaluations could be used in the future from other DIS systems as a …
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La battaglia interiore. Prova di commento alla Psychomachia di Prudenzio""
… work and its uniqueness as the first allegorical epic poem of the western literature, it explains the research methods which have been used and it sums up the results of the study. The method of the commentary tries to take into account the complexity of the object and the multiplicity of the …
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The historicity of Barbour's 'Bruce'
… systematically evaluates the historicity of the epic poem The Bruce, written towards the end of the fourteenth century and attributed to Archdeacon John Barbour of Aberdeen. For the purposes of analysis, the poem has been divided into 119 discrete episodes, which cover 95 percent of the text. …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
… In this dissertation, I begin to examine the poem using a rhetorical analysis that draws upon the Aristotelian causes as a framework. The poem's final cause is to persuade Dissenting readers to trust and praise divine Providence and to pursue virtue; its formal cause is a type of plain style …
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A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower
The seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost is one of the most widely studied texts in all of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satan's fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
… Walcott’s Omeros and modernist versions of the epic. Critics generally acknowledge the pervasive presence of modernist allusions in Walcott’s early work, but see the relevance of modernism diminishing as Walcott develops his “mature” poetic strategies of mimicry and hybridity. I challenge this …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
<p>Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid, has often been compared to Virgil’s Aeneid and many studies rightfully devote their attention to this text. I argue, however, that Greek tragedy equally plays an integral role in our reading and understanding of the Thebaid. Statius’ relationship with Greek …
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From isolation to incorporation : medical-theological imagery in the work of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Gwyneth Lewis.
… of his surgical metaphors from the earlier poem to the later work. I argue that Eliot's surgical metaphors reflect his conversion to Christianity and a shift from modernist medicine to an engagement with the Christus Chirurgus tradition. Chapter Three explores C.S. Lewis's …
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