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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"poetic line"”.
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Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
<p>This study locates a medieval poetics of lineation in the manuscript and early print reception of fifteenth-century Middle English penitential poems. I investigate three exemplary poems of penitential devotion alongside modern theories of the poetic line, combining approaches from cultural …
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The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… to pause or continue reading at the end of a line of poetry. At the heart of this dissertation are the questions of why do we do this, what value does that self-questioning have, and to what ends can we set it? In the nineteenth century, poets and readers alike surprisingly connected these …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
… or by other aspects of literary form (e.g., poetic line, metrical structure, or narrative perspective).
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Saad éí ná’iiłná
… moves the soul.” This short yet complex poetic line is a whole philosophy that plays an important role in how Diné storytelling can be understood. My dissertation, saad éí ná’iiłná, explores how the Diné idea of “ná’iiłná,” or things that move the soul in an emotional, physical, and …
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Rest and Pause in The Faerie Queene
… character have a vital connection to Spenser’s poetic practice. As pauses in the temporal fabric of The Faerie Queene, I show, they are necessary to sustain the poem and to shape its course. This is a study, therefore, of how things come to a halt in The Faerie Queene, the paradigm of which is …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… sixteenth-century Italian madrigals highlighted poetic line rhythm, repeated vowel sounds (or assonance), and word repetition in figures of speech—all elements of the verse that have been previously overlooked by scholars, who have traditionally focused on musical depictions of the text’s …