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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"lyricism"”.
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Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry
<p>This thesis explores the poetry of Joe Brainard and Anne Waldman, two poets of the critically neglected second-generation New York school. I argue that Brainard and Waldman help define the emerging discourse of postmodern poetry through their attention to cold war culture of the 1970s, …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
… Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new modes of lyricism, the dissertation compares the writings of early twentieth …
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Form and Lyricism as Elements of Neo-Romanticism in Summer Music Op. 31 by Samuel Barber (1957) with three recitals of selected works by Bach, Mozart, Hindemith, Handel, Gaubert, and others
… composer, evidenced through his use of lyricism. Summer Music, a standard in the woodwind quintet literature, should be included in every professional flutist's repertoire. The intent of this dissertation is to consider Barber's use of lyricism as a determinant of the form of Summer …
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O lirismo na gravura abstrata de Fayga Ostrower
… Her etchings and woodcuts bring up poetry and lyricism. The interrelationship of planes of coloured transparencies created by the over printing the woodblocks contributes to the building up of this lyricism. The transparencies bring up a dynamic sight which suggests to the eye an exercice of …
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Night of No Exile
… his goal through a leap from narrative poetry to lyricism. The "exile" alluded to in the title of the article is not only geographic, but also interioran exile due to the natural limitations of all languages, and which can be bridged only in linguistic ways. Lee's solution to that problem …
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A recording and guide to the performance of Samuel Barber's complete solo piano works, including the recently published early works
… three aspects of Barber’s compositional appeal: lyricism, virtuosity, and eclecticism. The goal of this discussion is to aid the student in her exploration of Samuel Barber’s piano music.
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… to themes of subjectivity, self-awareness, lyricism, heteroglossia, and social contextualization, from perspectives including Bakhtinian, queer, feminist and postructuralist theories, and Peircian semiotics. Tony Hoagland, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous …
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Religion in the works of Heinrich Heine
… was a poet who could rise to the very heights or lyricism, but then offend his readers with an outburst of mockery or blasphemy. With a mind so tormented, and a character so complex, it is no wonder that his writings present so many conflicting views. Only one positive trait stands out bravely and …
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William Maxwell: A selected critical biography
… the traditional novel to the postmodern, from lyricism to minimalism, and suggests significant development in his depiction of the self in autobiographical fiction. At the end of Maxwell's career, the parallel explorations of narrative craft and self-representation merge in So Long, See You …
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The lily of Quito a cantata for soprano, flute, classical guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello & percussion
… her life and message. The music combines vocal lyricism with modern and traditional idioms. Its influences range from the Baroque and Classical to the Romantic and Contemporary. The Lily of Quito depicts a unique historical figure via an original musical work.
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THE EMPRESS OF ROME & OTHER STORIES THAT MAKE ME POSSIBLE
… transformative experiences. With flourishes of lyricism, pessimism, comedy, and mournfulness, this tight-knit multi-genre patchwork ultimately renders a hopeful picture of living as a transsexual woman, finding agency through sex, and learning to accept and even sometimes love one’s body despite …
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The Manual Alphabet
… a tension between Midwestern realism and bucolic lyricism, absence and presence, letter and hand; moreover, the sounds and silences between the hearing and the deaf as seen through an appropriated “I.” My goal is for the reader to notice how absence occupies the page, to in turn cause the reader …
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Einojuhani Rautavaara's Vigilia: From cathedral to concert hall
… his choir—the unique harmonic language and the lyricism of the Finnish language that inspired it.
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… of their own. The tension between the emotional lyricism of the text’s prose and the foundational, often off-the-page brutality of its subject matter exemplifies Richard’s enduring love for his friends and his “morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs” (7). However, this textual exegesis …
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Gathering in the Far Field: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Midwest Regionalism in Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, and James Wright
… his objective aesthetic toward a more subjective lyricism. Roethke's reliance on local vernacular informs Bly's and Wright's choice of an authentic Midwest idiom. Pastoral surrealism provides Roethke, Bly, and Wright with a literary form which subverts the more meditative and formal discourse of …
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
… Through analyzing these artists' iconography and lyricism, this work demonstrates how erotic expressions in Soul are a self-affirming, self-determining, agentic force of African life.
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
… minor chord development, and intricate lyricism. Congruently, many of Sondheim's choices describing communication with audiences on the emotional and intellectual levels also recall those utilized by Wagner over a century earlier. These similarities not withstanding, Sondheim, as a …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… characters' speech, in the style of "personal lyricism." My study is based on a close-reading analysis of the selected works by Pai and Williams. Their humanistic approach to their respective declining aristocratic cultures and their sympathy for the nostalgic female characters' tragedies will …
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The Blue Lights: Stories
… style heavy in its employment of metaphor and lyricism, emphasizing alliterative diction and an elliptical syntax to view unglamorous characters in moments of crisis. The stories are meant to convey the feeling of real life in that these illuminating moments are rather more fleeting than …
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Bramble and Knife
… pages, these themes dwell between the poetic lyricism, and the raw feeling in these pieces. These poems are brambles. These poems are knives.</p>
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