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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"poetic form"”.
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"The Dualistic Mind And Poetic Form In Wordsworth's ""prelude"""
… mind. Wordsworth's efforts to devise a literary form that dramatizes mental processes as he sees them anticipate many twentieth-century techniques in poetry and fiction, and his speculations about consciousness resemble the theories of physiologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and educators …
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Intention
This thesis is an attempt to arrive at a poetic form for a house in a city. It is a form that relies an the nakedness of things (walls, columns and platforms) to define a space.
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The sacred way
… have been satisfied. Its essence is to give poetic form to the pragmatic. My work is only interested in the discovery, not the recovery of ideas; the invention, not classification. In working this way the search is for the essential and lasting principles in architecture, the origins of which …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… This dissertation argues that we can understand poetic form in the Middle Ages as language that interacts with its medium. The communication technologies of medieval English culture such as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… the concept of metaphysical belief and the poetic innovations enlisted to articulate this belief in the works of British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, …
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Currents that Puncture
Currents That Puncture is a poetic response to my personal experiences and study of literature over the past two years. My writing of poetry began as a means of understanding my childhood, adolescence and adult self. Thus, the persona of each poem is experiencing a process of self discovery. While …
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Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… to the postmodern age, have used the sonnet form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring theme …
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Perceiving Matter in Notes on Space, Undated (Log 3) by André du Bouchet, Fontfroide-le-Haut, Fata Morgana, 2000
… ever constructing a representation or image. The poetic form that du Bouchet explores renders perceptible the latent materiality of all text.
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Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry
… the way these poets engage, via innovations in poetic form, with conceptions of the citizen and meanings of citizenship at different historical moments in the United States. Drawing on recent developments in citizenship theory which have focussed on what Engin Isin calls "acts of citizenship," …
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Inter-subjectivity and intra-communality in Ciaran Carson’s Poetic Translations
… of Northern Irish poet, Ciaran Carson’s style of poetic translation in four volumes published between 1998 and 2012: The Alexandrine Plan (1998), The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (2002), The Táin (2007), and In the Light of (2012). The thesis discusses the implementation of transitional structures …
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… and in sequences of digressions and anecdotes. Poetic form becomes specific to a given text as poets adapt techniques from other fields, such as the visual arts, and integrate a wide array of media into literary works. In recent pieces, poets such as Emmanuel Hocquard and Olivier Cadiot …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… A fabliau is an amusing short story in poetic form, originally performed by troubadours and trouvères. This form is most present in manuscript examples from the 12th to the 14th century. The stories involve simple characters, word play and idiomatic expressions. I argue that …
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Distortions, Collections, and Mobility: South Asian Poets and the Space for Female Subjectivity
… Asian female body in the U.K. is reflected in poetic language. In particular, these poets seem to complicate how the body is used as a focal point for discussions about female empowerment and agency. However, this focus on the female body is still silencing and restricting her voice and …
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Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry
… of the 1970s, countercultural ideologies, and poetic form. Both Brainard and Waldman enact a poetics of vulnerability in their work, situating themselves as wholly unique from their late-modernist predecessors. In doing so, they help engender a poetics concerned not only with the intellectual …
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Words as Art: A New Perspective on Shaped Poetry
… well as the ear. I discuss the priority of fixed forms in Western poetry, and how the emergence of free verse laid the groundwork for a new focus upon the appearance of the poem on the page. The theories of “projective verse” put forth by the followers of the Black Mountain School placed further …
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Martinus Nijhoff se bundel, "De Wandelaar", gesien as tydsverskynsel deur kritiese verwysing na die tema en die styl in die bundel
… closely the style in the volume with regard to poetic form, e.g. the sonnet is defined in general and then explored as it appears in the volume; metre; rhyme and imagery. Chapter five traces the relationship between theme, style and the spirit of the time with reference to the cultural and …
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The Transformative Power of Love: The Negation of the Subject in Mysticism and Troubadour Fin' Amors
… situate in the late eleventh century a new poetic form in Occitan with a focus on earthly love. The love as it is described in the songs of the composers who write or sing about it comes to be called bon amors or fin’ amors, the term we use today to name the love of the troubadour tradition. …
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Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard
… in that community. The elegy, a traditional poetic form used to memorialize the dead, is undergoing a resurgence in popularity, especially in the latest collections of gay poets. The contemporary gay elegy is therefore a compelling field on which to examine AIDS themes in gay literature. …
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Downwinders and Edge/Bound poems
… included "edge/bound" poems, which refers to a poetic form I invented in August 2006. The form of these poems is dictated by a strict constraint: the last letter of the first word, and each subsequent word, must be the same as the first letter of the next word. The collection of poems explores …
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… of the <em>Yoga Sutras</em> be seen in the poetic form, style, and voice of <em>The Waste Land</em> and in the explanatory notes to the poem provided by Eliot, but classical yoga philosophy, as articulated in Patañjali’s <em>Sutras</em>, also forms the basis of a yogic spiritual journey in …
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