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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"poetic theory"”.
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A Great Debate in Poetic Theory: Brooks, Wheelwright, Crane & Olson
… is their scholarly struggle to bring to the poetic arts the most responsible and valuable critical approach and their sincere disagreement among themselves as to what the nature of poetry is and how the critic should deal with its subject matter.</p>
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Rhetoric Realigned: The Development of Poetic Theory in English and Scottish Writing c.1470-1530
This dissertation examines the evolution of poetic theory in English and Scottish writing between c.1470 and 1530. By examining important but neglected works by Stephen Hawes, Gavin Douglas, and Alexander Barclay, as well as influential poetry by Robert Henryson and John Skelton, it demonstrates …
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Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions
… to Epicureanism. Philodemus' Epicurean poetic theory ultimately recalls in many respects the Alexandrian poetic ideals: poetry should aim at hedonism, delighting the public with elegant and laboriously refined verses, and should have no other practical purpose, such as educating or …
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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War
… led to the advancement of the literary theory and practices of Socialist Realism, shutting off modernist tendencies and the dialogue with Western modernism. Despite the policy of the Iron Curtain, the Cold War period proved to be different. This study demonstrates that, in the second …
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Eliot through Tolkien: Estrangement, Verse Drama, and the Christian Path in the Modern Era
… moment on the Modern stage. J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of fantasy, as outlined in his essay “On Fairy Stories,” serves as the framework for my analysis of three of Eliot’s major plays: Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), and The Cocktail Party (1949). I argue that Eliot …
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Spiritual quest as aesthetic vision: aspects of T.S. Eliot's poetics as related to his literary works
… that there was a close relation between his poetics and his poetry; that his poetic theory was the "by-product" of his "poetry-workshop" and best applied to his literary works, rather than regarded as general aesthetic principles to be applied to all poetry. This is the basis on which this …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… conventional view of Robert Graves’s ideas about poetic inspiration is that they are presented in their entirety in The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar o f Poetic Myth (1948). However, this dissertation aims to argue that Graves’s four prose works, published in the 1940s and early 1950s - …
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Ezra Pound and the rhetoric of science, 1901-1922
… science as Ezra Pound’s first extended extra-poetic interest. This reference to science in Pound’s poetic theory and poetry is portrayed as rhetoric, with its emphasis on the linguistic signifier or word rather than the actual concepts and data of science. The material covers over two decades …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… and semiotics. The study examines the poetic theory of Chaucer as exemplified by his dream visions, revealing the connection between the art of memory and Chaucer's invention practice. The study also places Renaissance memoria in its proper context--as genesis of the commonplace book …
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'A test for poetry': an examination of Louis Zukofsky's 'objectivist principles' and poetic practice
… unpublished statements as a test for his theory and practice. The first chapter introduces Zukofsky's poetic principles and examines the relationship between his work and Ezra Pound's Imagism. My aim here is to put the origins of Zukofsky's principles into an appropriate context, disputing …
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The Philosophic Basis of G. K. Chesterton's Literary Criticism and the Implications of His Theory of Literature for Contemporary Criticism
… A book, for example, like Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature — which aims at propounding a new theory by the summary, contrast, and elimination of other theories — is testimony enough to these differences. However, valuable and erudite as that book is, one can search it in vain for a …
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Seamus Heaney and American Poetry
… Ransom, and Roethke formed the basis for a poetics that remains largely unchanged throughout the Irish poet’s career. Lowell and Bishop, though not key influences until later, were also discovered in the 1960s while Heaney was reading, teaching, and even publishing about American poetry …
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The Geography of Daffodils
The Geography of Daffodils is a collection of poems written during my course of studies at Missouri State University. My purpose for returning to school was to become a better writer. It has been my goal throughout my graduate program to document the process of my work and to compile a selection of …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… speech and verbal expressivity in the poetry and poetic theory of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, against the historical backdrop of the Free-Speech Movement and the rise of mass-culture. When poets frame nonliterary speech within the literary page, …