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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"poetic text"”.
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Timbre and tone-painting in the orchestration of a song cycle
… and instrumentation detail the use of timbre and texture in conveying the mood and meaning of the poetic text.
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Translation of poetry as homicide, with reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Last toast'
… taking into account the integrity of the poetic text, the context in which it exists, and the identity (constructed or real) of the poet. Four published translations, by different authors, into English of Anna Akhmatova’s poem Posledniy tost (‘The Last Toast’) are analysed in detail to …
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STUDI SULLA TRADIZIONE ESEGETICA ED ERUDITA INTORNO AGLI IDILLI DI TEOCRITO.
… which feature traces of commentaries to the poetic text. A key achievement of the project is the creation of comprehensive entries for each papyrus, including critical editions, physical descriptions, and line-by-line analysis. These entries shed light on the relationship between the papyri …
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A Conductor’s Analysis of Almeida Prado’s Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark
… follows the gospel account, and no other poetic text, reflective chorales or arias were added. Among other factors, this work is unique in that the choir is used to carry the narrative throughout the work. Also, the composer masterfully uses text-painting in the choral and instrumental …
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Matrices and mavericks: a Kristevan analysis of the poetry of Shelley
Kristeva, in her work, Revolution in Poetic Language, analyses nineteenth-century avant-garde poetic texts as exemplars of the manifestation of the otherwise repressed semiotic chora. This thesis involves an analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetic texts in a similar critique. Shelley's poetry, …
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Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek
… to underpin the study, and to analyze poetic text to address the research question: What is it to be living as a dying child? The text sample included 499 poems written by Mattie J. T. Stepanek, a dying child. The <em>Settecase-Wu Conceptual Guide</em> was developed and implemented to …
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Tangible Purposes
… Purposes is a book-length sequence of linked poetic texts that investigate the schisms and overlaps between the emotionally driven language of confessional, romantic, and meditative address, and the more brash and surgical language of so-called official documents, transcripts of expert …
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The Challenges of Translating Poetic Text:The Case of Paul Sozigwa's Wimbo wa Lawino
This study examines the challenges of translating poetic text using Wimbo wa Lawino as a case study. The researcher first read the texts thoroughly and then identified twenty-one stanzas, which in the researcher's perception exhibited "marked" translation. The researcher subsequently employed …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… explores the social and linguistic contexts of Shen Congwen's literary works, with a particular focus on (1) the way his works enriched and stratified nationalist ideology/narratives and (2) the linguistic ideologies, the historical images and the literary images registered as semiotic …
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Visual form, visible nature: radical landscape poetry and Romantic environmental aesthetics
… of the relationship between the body and the poetic text. By re-articulating Romantic attitudes, radical landscape poetry reveals the divergences, congruities and continuities which link contemporary eco-ethical thought to earlier poetic and philosophical modes.<br/><br/>The treatment of …
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
… women poets. I consider select poems and poetics of Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, and Elizabeth Robinson, in order to argue that their postlanguage lyric poetry retains lyric subjectivity and reformulates it as ethical insofar as it is "circumspective" or "other-oriented"; that is, the …
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Meanings of 'the Outdoors': Shaping outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand
… in a variety of formats including vignettes and poetic text. The findings are multi-layered, something that reflected the dynamic nature of 'the outdoors' and the ensuing opportunities offered for creative and critical thinking. There was also evidence that the participants were vigilant about …
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Components of the imaginative process and the shift towards metaphor in Wordsworth's The Prelude.
… spots of time, yet rarely place them in the context of the various editions of William Wordsworth's The Prelude. This thesis will examine the spot of time as a process rather than an event and then make distinctions between the central imaginative moments in the early and later editions of The …
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Snow and window: archetypes of imagination
… and receptive acts. This work is an intertextual analysis and synthesis of self-allusive poems by Boris Pasternak, Ted Hughes, Gyula Illyes, and Gennady Aygi. Poems by other authors are also discussed briefly, or linked to the main texts through epigraphs. Contemplation of snow through a …