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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
Wordsworth's poetry is typically seen by critics as healthy-minded, rich in themes of transcendence, synthesis, and optimism. The poet in this respect is contrasted with the other great poets of the Romantic tradition--Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Blake--who are all generally related to the …
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Post-Digital Poetics
Ph.D.
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The Poetics of Appeal
This study advances a theoretical model of appeal, the framework readers’ advisory (RA) librarians use to make book suggestions. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it combines elements of media studies, literary theory, and library science to posit new elements of appeal and new models for …
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Byron's Poetics of Events
… The thesis concludes that Byron’s evental poetics ultimately result in a particular notion of poetic freedom, which I situate outside of a metaphysics of potentiality. The Conclusion probes, lastly, Byron’s utopian thinking in relation to the efficacy of literature, and the tensions that …
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Dante's Poetics of Absence
This thesis carries out a systematic analysis of absence in Dante Alighieri’s Commedia. In particular, it examines those absences which Dante renders conspicuous, and proposes the importance of the interpretation of conspicuous absence in the poem: a subject which has only ever been examined in …
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Michael Longley's Poetics of Memory
A discussion of the relationship between memory, metaphor, trauma, and history in the works of contemporary Irish poet, Michael Longley.
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Joy Harjo's Poetics of Transformation
For Muscogee Creek poet Joy Harjo, poetry is a real world force that can empower the reader by utilizing mythic memory, recovery of history, and a spiral journey to regain communal identity. Her poetic career transforms from early lyric poems to a hybridized form of prosody, prose, and myth to …
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The poetics of sketch comedy
The Poetics of Sketch Comedy labels, defines and analyzes the conventions of sketch comedy. The comic sketch is examined for its structural conventions, and is broken into categories for analysis. The superstructure of variety entertainment, and conventions used to simulate cohesiveness in variety …
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A poetics of subjective resistance
This doctoral thesis is a work of poetics, which speculatively casts into the future of possible writing, to ask how contemporary innovative poetry can enact or contribute towards political resistance. More specifically, it asks how poetry that finds its conditions materially and ideologically …
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DIRTY COMPUTERS: EROTIC DATA POETICS
… the data’s subject. Dirty Computers: Erotic Data Poetics turns to Black womanist poetics to glean an alternative ideological framework for collecting, analyzing, and using data. In this dissertation, I argue that queer womanist writer Audre Lorde’s concept of the erotic allows us to think about …
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Swinburne's poetics: theory and practice
The thesis attempts to construct Swinburne's poetics through an explication of two poems, "Thalassius" and "On the Cliffs," published in Songs of the Springtides in 1880, and to show the relation abetween his critical principles as extracted from his prose writings and the theory of poetry and …
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
Much attention has been devoted to the importance of harmony as an organising principle in early modern conceptions of art and the universe, and to its influence on the literary production of the time. The opposing concept of discord, however, has only received limited critical consideration. This …
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Poetics of the videogame setpiece
… exist to serve. Following a historical poetics approach that relates practices of media exhibitionism to the perpetual innovation economy of digital games, this thesis argues that the setpiece is a meaningful site of fluid agency play within games, enabling complex narrative expression …
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Mapping the Dream: A Poetics of Remembering
… way to honor deeply-rooted dreams. The writer's poetics statement delves into influences on her writing including her father's aesthetics and the essays included in Arriere-Pays by Yves Bonnefoy that dwell on those elements of childhood that anchor a poets' life.
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Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy
… he articulates his own comic preferences, his “poetics,” he does so using the framework of a dichotomy that contrasts a low-comic mode and a high-comic mode. The low mode is characterized by stock characters and routines, physical humor, obscenity, and a sense of antiquity. The high-comic mode …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… that Ovid’s use of toponyms sheds light on his poetics: the places of the Metamorphoses are sites of generic negotiation, poetic self-fashioning and metapoetic reflection. Place names also contribute to Ovid’s structural and narrative strategies, serving as ‘signposts’ along the reader’s journey …
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The poetics of praeludere: Dante and Wordsworth
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:56:21Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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