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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"poetic tradition"”.
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Remaking early poetic tradition: publication and reception of ancient-style poetry anthologies in late imperial China
… anthologies were shaped by and shaped literary tradition in late imperial China from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Specifically, by combining approaches from the fields of literary studies, book history, and digital humanities, this dissertation focuses on the practices of …
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Some elements of modern poetic technique
… poet and in what way they are unique to the poetic tradition. The standpoint taken is that of a poet situated in the Western cultural and poetic tradition and a poetics is endorsed that holds that poems may be the site of evaluation, specifically in terms of technique. The thesis excludes …
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Desiring to bear the word : the poetry of Stevie Smith
This thesis argues that Stevie Smith's poetic style can be attributed to her gender. It shows that the dominant status of masculine poetry and poetics, and the prejudice against women poets, affected Smith's poetic style and led to her search for the source ofa feminine poetic voice. The prevailing …
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中古诗人对“远意”的追求--以谢灵运、陶渊明为例 = The pursuit of overtone of "Distance" in Wei-Jin Lyric poetry: Exemplified by Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming.
The pursuit of overtone of ?Distance? is a poetic tradition of Chinese classical poetry. The orgin, evolution and materity of this tradition all completed in Wei-Jin period. The overtone of ?Distance? means self transcendence in the real world. The main themes about the pursuit of overtone of …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… of the Augustan regime, I focus more on the poetic representation of the two ekphrases in the context of their intertextual relationship with other Greek and Roman literary traditions. Minerva's tapestry is the embodiment of the heroic epic tradition similar to Homeric and Vergilian …
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‘As native in my thought as any here’ A revisionist re-reading of the life and works of James Orr: poet, patriot and Ulster-Scot
… related to the Scottish vernacular verse tradition of the eighteenth century, however the greater part of his extant work is expressed in standard English. Since the mid-twentieth century Orr’s Scotch poems have excited the interest of a variety of interpreters, including the regionalist …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… and 1829. Analysis of Mickiewicz's image as the poetic Other, with respect to his Russian contemporaries, reveals the process that led to the establishment of their individual and national identities during the transition from Classicism to Romanticism in the second half of the 1820s. Examination …
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Girls at the Gun Show
… the Ozarks, and on motherhood and gender. In the tradition of contemporary poets such as Jim Daniels, Jane Springer, and Natasha Trethewey, many of the poems in this collection use place as a basis of the work. The Ozarks, specifically, figures heavily in the work, not only in the look of the …
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“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction
… By redeploying resources from ancient oral poetic tradition, Finnegans Wake creates a form of resistance to the totalizing effects of textualized mass culture. Technologically saturated media culture often attempts to encode stable, binary identities into the fabric of sociopolitical …
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"i shall / be in my segments": Dissecting and reassessing Tom Raworth’s Oeuvre and its influences
… situating his work in the context of a wider poetic and artistic community. Taking into account the range of styles and mediums Raworth uses, this thesis has taken a multifaceted approach, drawing from both scholarship on his poetic peers and on art history so as to offer a broader view of his …
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Ecologies of Reading in Dante and Rilke
… offer us alternatives to patriarchal models of poetic tradition. Drawing on the contemporary philosophical schools of New Materialism and Object- Oriented-Ontology, I argue that reading should aim to bring to light connections across boundaries of difference, such as the temporal and …
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A genre revised in the epic poetry of H.D. and Gwendolyn Brooks
… that contributes to our understanding of a tradition of women's poetry in American literature. The review of both issues--possible epic poetry and women's poetic tradition--is a necessary prerequisite for considering the argument that H.D.'s iielen in Eavpt and Gwendolyn Brooks's In the …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… a more adequate, because less rigid, sense of poetic “tradition” upon which authentic literary history must "rest." The "history" of Modern and Postmodern poetry is largely the work of New Critics and New Critically trained academicians. Although there have been recently some attempts to deal …
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"Bitten-off things protruding" : the limitations of South African English poetry post-1948
… thesis embarked upon the scholarly analysis of a poetic ancestry to which his own work looked ,in vain for location. The re-examination of the roots and value of South African English poetry begins in the thesis with the dilemmas posed by a legacy of romanticism in its displaced relation to a …
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THE POETRY OF RONALD DUNCAN
… influenced by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Their poetics and personal advice enabled Duncan to produce a series of publications that pursued some basic modernist tenets, such as an adherence to a European poetic tradition and the belief that poetry could induce cultural renewal, via an overtly …
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On Combustion: Contemporary British Poetry and the Pyrocene (1990-2017)
… introduction concludes by detailing the specific poetic tradition under scrutiny in the thesis, as well as the forms of reading and criticism which such writing has tended to invite. Having established these contexts, this thesis then undertakes three major case studies across three main chapters, …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police brutality, I argue that an African American …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… identity will remain firmly English; his poetic engagement with cultural Otherness between Europe and America, however, transcends notions of petty insularity by a long stretch. His engagement with Ireland, France, America and Germany is so obviously premeditated that we can speak of …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… this exploration of Def Poetry Jam: from which poetic traditions did Def Poetry Jam originate and thus represent to television audiences; how did the on-screen representation of performers and poetry contribute to the production of cultural consciousnesses; and finally, how did Def Poetry Jam …
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