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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"levity"”.
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LEVITY
… poet as she hurls herself back into being), <em>Levity</em> represents a revelatory poetic response to the gravity of tragedy, making beauty out of coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), two disabilities with which I was diagnosed in the immediate …
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The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film
… Paradoxically, contentiously, doses of levity during this period were very much a reality, and even a psychological necessity. The purpose of my thesis is to explore the historical, social, and political ramifications of such laughter provoking manifestations. In doing so, the nuances …
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The Sweet Cream of My Pleading
… approach emotional suffering with both depth and levity, giving voice not only to turmoil, but to humor, wonder, and love. The poems’ speakers communicate through a variety of forms—from penguin, to planet, to donkey—in the hope that their pain will be understood. The collection affirms that, even …
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A Reevaluation of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
… an admixture of credulous beliefs and grotesque levity.</p>
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The Consistency in Character of Prince Hal and King Henry the Fifth
… and whose understanding is dissipated by levity. In his idle hours he is rather loose than wicked; and when the occasion forces out his latent qualities, he is great without effort, and brave without tumult. The trifler is roused into a hero, and the hero again reposes in the trifler." …
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Spinoza's Ethology: Recognizing Dynamic Transitions Between Imagination, Reason, and Intuition
… into actions of real living experiences, joy and levity, peace of mind, and an acute interest in all expressions of the laws of Nature. Still, we cannot possibly approach or exhaust the totality of causal processes and effects in Nature. In our awareness of this fact, we are transformed to create …
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The Dramatic and the Theatrical in the poetry of T.S. Eliot (1909-1922)
… of monodrama. The chapter then considers levity and seriousness in 'Sweeney Erect', and concludes with a discussion of the dramatic and the theatrical in 'Sweeney Among the Nightingales'. The final chapter explores the dramatic and the theatrical in The Waste Land. The first section . …