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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"poetic voice"”.
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"Where the Deepening Thunders Call": Voice in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
… perspectives. Melville's experimental use of poetic voice and his unconventional depiction of fictional voices within the poems contribute to the collection's distanced perspectives, as well as to the volume's sometimes difficult and even awkward poetics. However, these experimental voices are …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
… readings and critical analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed”, The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter”, and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a serial poem consisting of short and long poems based on the …
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The Invisibility of Juvenal
… frustrates readers' attempts to identify his poetic voice with a single unitary character or persona. At the same time, it argues that Juvenal's poems are influenced in both form and theme by cultural trends in the early second century. The arguments staged in these poems constitute a critique …
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(RE)visualization : a pedagogical journey through black and white photography
… This is done through incorporating two distinct voices, a documentary voice (academic) which is interwoven with a personal poetic voice (phenomenological)
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William Faulkner's public and poetic voices: A discussion of the "human condition"
… letters, and interviews (Faulkner's public voice) in conjunction with his major fiction (his poetic voice) clarifies what Faulkner meant by "immortality," "evil," "fear," and "failure" and thereby demonstrates that both Faulkner's fiction and his nonfiction do in fact illustrate his belief …
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Echoes Inhabit the Garden: The Music of Poetry and Place in T.S. Eliot
… in his critical writings and his process of poetic composition. It aims to situate him in recent critical debates in modernist studies regarding local, national, and transnational formations of culture and poetry, but concentrates the majority of its focus within Eliot’s work. It intends to …
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Light Suite
… craft. It also provides insight as to what my "poetic voice" is. Light Suite attempts to entwine personal experience with engaged observation and occasional flights of fantasy. The following poems illustrate my attempt at diversifying personal, poetic style. There are travel, prose, and …
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Nadoodse ondersoek
In this dissertation the poetic voice in the collection Nadoodse ondersoek is investigated. A "poetic autopsy" is "performed" to define the poet's relation to words and images in thematic - and metaphoric implications. The development from impulse to final poem is discussed. The role of form and …
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Making, remembering, remaking : personal meanings in symbolization
My silent voice spirals out of me with your stories I remember they have fused, intertwined and woven themselves into my story My primary goal in the following research is to examine my own sense of ethnic identity, and in the process better understand my own cultural experience through the process …
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Identita Culturale Di Un Progetto Di Liberta Nella Sensualita Corporea Del Linguaggio Poetico Di Dacia Maraini
In the coherent femministically engage poetics of the writer Dacia Maraini's poetry represents a model for freedom of thought, which has allowed her to knowingly renew her poetic voice throughout the years. Expressing herself through verses, the idealism of her strong ideological involvement (which …
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The Modernist Quoting Poem
… poem as a static object, creates a new type of poetic voice which depends on this non-stasis, places the quoting poem in the tradition of American natural language while exploiting the aesthetics of awkwardness, and gives a new focus to what it means for a poem to be original and to be personal …
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The priest in The Temple: the relationship between George Herbert’s English poetry and The Country parson
… its apparent lack of unity, its variable poetic voice, and its place in literary history. Chapter 1 argues that The Temple and The Country Parson are complementary: that they may have been written together and considered companionpieces, that they are similar in form and content, and that …
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Feeding the hunger of history: society and politics in Dylan Thomas's prose and dramatic works
… beliefs that aligned more closely with his ‘poetic’ voice, and that this approach was arrived at through his work as a short story writer and scriptwriter for film and radio. It argues that Under Milk Wood is, consequently, the most developed example of this style, and proposes a reading of …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… working with form. It addresses the use of the poetic tools of lineation, white space, epigraphs, and the unique visual/textual intersection of poetry in constructing a cohesive collection. Inspiration for a variety of creative decisions sprang from the works of Julianna Baggott, Jan Beatty, …
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Distinctive Voice
… to demonstrate how she shaped her individual voice while navigating her occasionally conflicting roles of sister and writer. My project begins with a chapter providing a selective biographical and critical history of Dorothy Wordsworth and details how my work emerges from current trends in …
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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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A Reassessment of the Work of Arthur O’Shaughnessy
… in ’What is Minor Poetry?’, a weak follower of poetic trends, or a shadowy bit player in a Pre-Raphaelite drama. This thesis argues that O’Shaughnessy’s life and work are of greater significance than has yet been acknowledged. My readings of his work suggest that rather than being an imitator of …
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ECOCUIR AESTHETICS: GENDER, ECOLOGY AND FORM IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
… in Mexico in the 1990s by collectivizing the poetic voice and embodying cuir affects. These works recover nature as a cuir space where non-genital, non-reproductive and non-heteronormative pleasures and intimacies take place.
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'n Herwaardering van Olga Kirsch se oeuvre: Identiteit ,moederskap en ballingskap aan die hand van die psigoanalitiese toeriee van onder andere Sigmund Freud,Jaques Lacan en Julia Kristeva
… the factors that muffled the immigrant Kirsch's poetic voice for more than two decades after arriving in Israel in 1948. An inability to make a breakthrough in Modern Hebrew or English redirected her attention to the language she felt best at home in - Afrikaans. Kirsch, however, could not …
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Sister Madeleva: Lyric Poet
… of dimly remembered names.|And then, what of the poetic voice of America who shall surely be of interest to the literary scholar two, three, four centuries hence? Yes, what of Walt Whitman?|Thus, as we must give full recognition to the insoluble problem of time in any current literary appraisal, …
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