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Painter, Megan G. "The dramatic monologue aesthetic and the reader experience /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901268.
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Capp, Laura. "Dramatic audition: listeners, readers, and women's dramatic monologues, 1844-1916." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3438.
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The "dramatic monologue" is curiously named, given that poems of this genre often feature characters not only listening to the speakers but responding to them. While "silent auditors," as such inscribed characters are imperfectly called, are not a universal feature of the genre, their appearance is crucial when it occurs, as it turns monologue into dialogue. The scholarly attention given to such figures has focused almost exclusively upon dramatic monologues by Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and other male poets and has consequently never illustrated how gender influences the attitudes toward and outcomes of communication as they play out in dramatic monologues. My dissertation thus explores how Victorian and modernist female poets of the dramatic monologue like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Augusta Webster, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew stage the relationships between the female speakers they animate and the silent auditors who listen to their desperate utterances. Given the historical tensions that surrounded any woman's speech, let alone marginalized women, the poets perform a remarkably empathetic act in embodying primarily female characters on the fringes of their social worlds--a runaway slave, a prostitute, and a modern-day Mary Magdalene, to name a few--but the dramatic monologues themselves end, overwhelmingly, in failures of communication that question the ability of dialogue to generate empathetic connections between individuals with radically different backgrounds. Silent auditors often bear the scholarly blame for such breakdowns, but I argue that the speakers reject their auditors at pivotal moments, ultimately participating in their own marginalization. The distrust these poems exhibit toward the efficacy of speaking to others, however, need not extend to the reader. Rather, the genre of the dramatic monologue offers the poets a way to sidestep dialogue altogether: by inducing the reader to inhabit the female speaker's first-person voice--the "mobile I," in Èmile Benveniste's terms--these dramatic monologues convey experience through role-play rather than speech, as speaker and reader momentarily collapse into one body and one voice. Such a move foregrounds sympathetic identification as a more powerful means of conveying experience than empathetic identification and the distance between bodies and voices it necessitates.
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Garrett, Jennifer. "Reconceptualising the dramatic monologue : the interlocutory dynamics of Carol Ann Duffy's poetry." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414957.
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Roche-Jacques, Shelley J. "Time, space and action in the dramatic monologue : men, women and mice." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2013. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20287/.
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This thesis combines critical and creative writing in an inquiry into the presentation of time, space and action in the dramatic monologue, positing that the conventions surrounding the presentation of time and space in lyric poetry affect the interpretation of the communicative context of dramatic monologue. A critical discussion and analysis in five chapters is followed by a collection of original poetry, the production of which informed the critical investigation. The first chapter gives an overview of the critical field and is concerned with definitions of the genre. A definition of the Browningesque dramatic monologue is offered, one which places the idea of 'action in the present' at the centre. Chapter two outlines the methodology of the project; primarily that of deictic analysis. Keith Green's work on the occurrence and behaviour of deixis in lyric poetry (in particular his concepts of 'coding' and 'content' time and place) is used as a starting point to consider how deictic elements might operate differently in the context of the dramatic monologue. The third and fourth chapters apply this methodology to specific texts. Chapter three provides original readings of Robert Browning's 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' and 'A Grammarian's Funeral'. These serve to highlight Browning's 'dramatic' approach. Chapter four offers new readings of poems from 'The World's Wife' by Carol Ann Duffy, revealing a lyric, rather than dramatic, employment of time and space. Finally, a reading of Julia Copus' poem 'The Particella of Franz Xaver Sussmayr' enables further examination of dramatic devices and their effects in the context of contemporary poetry. The fifth chapter offers an analysis of Men, Women and Mice, the accompanying volume of poetry. It is therefore suggested that the collection of poetry is read between chapters four and five. The collection of poetry and chapter five jointly address issues such as the status of the addressee, the border between the lyric and the dramatic, and problems surrounding the signalling of the dramatic in contemporary poetry. The discussion of these practice-related issues enables further conclusions to be reached regarding the operation and employment of deixis in the Browningesque dramatic monologue.
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Halbert, Steven Joseph Keirstead Christopher M. ""And yet God has not said a word" the dramatic monologue as inverted and secularized prayer /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/English/Thesis/Halbert_Steven_51.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Auburn University, 2008.Abstract. Vita. Includes pictures of the Institut Catholique de Paris, a seminary which was formerly the monastery where Brother Lawrence lived and wrote. Includes bibliographical references.
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Walter, Lauren. "Anything Else." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/47.
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My honors senior thesis, a creative project entitled Anything Else, is a collection of fourteen poems that reflects on trauma, loss, interpersonal relationships, and nature. Many of the poems are dramatic monologues, allowing me to portray a range of extreme voices, including a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, a U.S. veteran of the Iraq War, and murderer Perry Smith. Although I consider myself a free verse writer, preferring to work without regular meter or rhyme, one of the poems is written in iambic pentameter. In addition, I took material from the Yahoo! Answers website and composed it as a found poem, adding to the diversity of the manuscript. A number of questions are explored across the variety of speakers, themes, and forms of poems included here, often coming back to the question of whether or not there is anything else.
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Walter, Lauren. "New Rust." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2205.
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A poetry thesis exploring issues of loss, death, creation, imagination, family, interpersonal relationships, nature, sexuality, and writing. The manuscript includes a preface that discusses literary influences such as Ai, H.D., and Sharon Olds, as well as writing in forms such as the dramatic monologue, imagistic poem, and confessional poem. Three main sections organize the manuscript's poems.
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King, Cynthia Marie. "Ascensionist." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212179833.
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Pavani, Monica <1968>. "In the skin of another : Anne Michaels', Sujata Bhatt's and Adrienne Rich's dramatic monologues as embodiments of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1159.
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This research aims at exploring the reasons for a multiple fascination: why does German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) after her death haunt Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as a ghost that can find no peace in the hereafter? and, what is more, why does her experience as a woman artist go on haunting three women poets of the present time – Canadian Anne Michaels (1958), Indian Sujata Bhatt (1956) and American Adrienne Rich (1929) – who have written dramatic monologues giving voice to her?
The reasons for an obsession cannot be grasped in rational terms. The three poets let Becker speak in the first person so as to explore her life devoted to painting but constantly undermined by a sense of failure. Through the use of different devices but urged by a similar need, their poetry courts a form of ‘embodiment,’ aimed at finding a new way of seeing and of giving voice to Paula’s deepest yearnings at a time when to be a woman and an artist represented an inner conflict far from easy to resolve.Questa ricerca intende indagare le ragioni di una fascinazione multipla: perché la pittrice tedesca Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) dopo la sua morte perseguita Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) come un fantasma che non trova pace nell’aldilà? E ancora, perché la sua esperienza di artista continua a perseguitare tre poetesse contemporanee – la canadese Anne Michaels (1958), l’indiana Sujata Bhatt (1956) e l’americana Adrienne Rich (1929) – che hanno scritto dei monologhi drammatici per darle voce? Le ragioni di un’ossessione non si possono afferrare razionalmente. Le tre poetesse fanno parlare la Becker in prima persona per esplorare la sua vita dedicata alla pittura ma continuamente minata da un senso di fallimento. Con l’utilizzo di diverse strategie ma mossa da simile urgenza, la loro poesia persegue una forma di ‘incarnazione’, nel tentativo di trovare un nuovo modo di vedere e di dare voce ai desideri più profondi di Paula, in un’epoca in cui essere donna e artista rappresentava un conflitto interiore di non facile soluzione.
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Anderson, Crystal Lee. "The Coagulate, and, 'Not simply a case' : Frank Bidart's post-confessional framing of mental illness, typography, the dramatic monologue and feint in 'Herbert White' and 'Ellen West'." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-coagulateandnot-simply-a-case-frank-bidarts-postconfessional-framing-of-mental-illness-typography-the-dramatic-monologue-and-feint-in-herbert-white-and-ellen-west(2408f29d-e56f-46fe-8301-0f10a463f901).html.
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This doctoral thesis involves two components, a book length collection of poems and a critical study of ‘Herbert White’ and ‘Ellen West’ by Frank Bidart. The collection of poems, The Coagulate, consists of four parts: 1) Semi-personal poems focusing on nature both in a general sense and in specific reference to the natural British landscape. 2) Poems that explore the nature-based myths and contemporary social idiosyncrasies of Japan.3) Poems that explore the social perception of mental illness and the individual voices that exist in spite psychological classification.4) Poems by an alter-ego and pseudonym named Lee Cole, a completely foreign perspective to my own. These poems were written with the intent to adhere to Frank Bidart’s concept of Herbert White as ‘all that I was not.’ However, unlike Bidart, these poems attempt to remove the presence of the poet and forgo the use of a feint. The collection is organised with contexture in mind rather than chronology. Poems build upon one another and one section flows into the next causing the book to have a fluid quality. The critical component examines Bidart’s treatment of two mentally ill characters in respect to the establishment of the form, style, and voice that would become a hallmark of his poetry. Chapter 1 looks at the first poem of Bidart’s first book, ‘Herbert White.’ This chapter examines how Bidart’s unique use of typography, voice, Freudian theory, and the sharing of the poet’s history contributed to the crafting of a mentally ill character and the contexture of Golden State. It suggests that the inclusion of the poet, a stable presence in comparison to White, allows the reader to recognise certain universal human personality traits in a character that seems inhuman. Chapter 2 examines how Bidart crafted ‘Ellen West,’ a character just as unlike Bidart as ‘Herbert White.’ Central to this analysis is the examination of how to construct a character struggling with identity. It also examines the use of dramatic monologues and how ‘Ellen West’ fits into a form with a flexible definition. As with Chapter 1, Chapter 2 examines how Bidart uses the poet’s self to add to a fictional narrative and how that reflects upon his personal poetry, indicating that Bidart’s use of the self is a redirection from how the Confessional poets used first-person.
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Haines, Dorothy Ina. "Rhetorical strategies in Old English prose, a study of three dramatic monologues." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/NQ35171.pdf.
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Javořík, Viktor. "Tvorba komediální a dramatické postavy." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-361713.
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The present thesis deals with the process of creating a comedy and drama character. The work is built upon comparing the similarities and differences of their creating. It is based on my previous acting experience and knowledge and skills acquired in the course of the training at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, during the rehearsals or final exams at the Department of Dramatic Theatre, or performances at professional theatres. I believe that I am a comedy actor, therefore I chose a topic which may help me sort out the approach to acting in general, but also realize my own capabilities, skills, obstacles and limits which affect the comedy and drama character creating process. I supported the thesis with specialised literature with which I was acquainted during the studies at university.
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Ratcliffe, Sophie. "'Goodly creatures' : ideas of sympathy and theology in dramatic monologues by Browning, Auden, and Beckett." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419106.
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Rodriguez, Mia U. "Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355934808.
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Hýča, Martin. "MONOLOG JAKO AUTENTICKÁ VÝPOVĚD V KONTEXTU MODERNÍHO DRAMATU." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-263148.
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The thesis deals with the notion of monologue and monologicity as a peculiar means of expression of the modern drama. The concept of monologue is defined within the frame of its relation towards dialogue, in the context of theoretical thinking about drama and theater, and in terms of the application of these concepts in everyday life.It is based on the theoretical works by Jan Mukařovský and Jiří Veltruský. The concept of monologue as a lack of dialogicity is being challenged with understanding monologue as a haven of authenticity, a space for authentic testimony. Through the general reflection, thoughts are put in connection with modern drama and illustrated on examples from particular drama works. The thesis leads into a reasoning about the dialogue between the stage and the auditorium as a way-out from the monological situation on the stage.
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Sines, Benjamin P. "Letters of a Ruined House." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2007.
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Marinakou-Matsa, Evgenia. "L'occupation italo-allemande et le parcours de l'identité féminine dans "Η μητέρα του σκύλου" de Pavlos Matessis." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30069/document.
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Cette étude, intitulée « Représentations de l’Occupation et le parcours de l’identité féminine dans Η μητέρα του σκύλου de Pavlos Matessis », examine la collaboration sexuelle de la femme avec l’ennemi au cours de l’Occupation italo-allemande, son châtiment à la Libération et sa protestation envers la punition infligée. L’analyse des techniques narratives combinée à celle du contexte historique permettent d’approfondir les représentations de l’Occupation élaborées par ce roman et cernent la question centrale qui concerne la position tenue par ce dernier face à un événement que l’Histoire officielle a considéré comme secondaire après l’avoir frappé d’une condamnation allant de soi. Il s’ensuit de l’analyse que cette fiction au caractère éminemment dramatique combine de façon unique l’histoire à ses modes d’énonciation narrative. Sa particularité est aussi qu’elle s’éloigne sensiblement de la version officielle des événements et articule un discours différent sur un sujet tabou, celui de la collaboration sexuelle des femmes avec l’ennemi qui a été reliée à la prostitution et à la trahison de la patrie. Il fait de cette collaboration l’occasion de l’éveil de la conscience sociale du sujet et de la composition d’une identité sur la base de la libre disposition de soi et de l’auto-détermination, et considère le châtiment public comme un mécanisme de déstructuration du sujet auquel répond le silence comme forme de protestation. Il s’agit d’une œuvre « à l’écoute » de la révolte contre l’injustice de l’Histoire, qui répond dans le présent à la demande insatisfaite de la réhabilitation du sujet et défend des idéaux humanistes qu’elle place au dessus des idéaux nationauxThe title of the present doctoral research is “Representations of the Occupation and the evolution of female identity in Η μητέρα του σκύλου [The Mother of the dog] by Pavlos Matesis”. This novel revolves around the “erotic” collaboration of a woman with the enemy during the years of the Italian-German Occupation, the public disgrace that she suffered at the wake of Liberation and her protest for the punishment that was inflicted on her. Through a methodology consisting of a narrative analysis in combination with the historical context, I examine the representations of the Occupation that the novel offers in a period that was crucial for Greek history and society, and also the historical fact of the sexual collaboration, which was judged to be of “secondary” significance by official History which filed it as self-evidently condemnable. The conclusion stemming from this research is that the novel, through a fictional narrative with strong dramatic characteristics, combines the story with its narrative ways of expression in a unique way. Its peculiarity, however, lies in its distinctive differentiation from the given facts of the dominant version and in its articulation of a discourse on a taboo subject, for literature as for Historiography, this of the erotic collaboration of women with the enemy, the official evaluation of which connects them with prostitution and national treason. Through this collaboration, which stands as a pretext for the awakening of the subject’s social conscience and the constitution of an identity on the basis of self-determination and self-designation, it sees punishment as a deconstruction mechanism of the subject but also silence as a reaction to the former. Η Μητέρα του σκύλου is a book that “listens” to the protest for the historical injustice, brings forward to the present the unfulfilled request for the subject’s moral restoration and supports the humanistic ideals, putting them above the national ones
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Hýl, Petr. "Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215582.
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Baker, Kasey Bass. "Gender, Genre, and the Victorian Dramatic Monologue." 2008. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/326.
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Gender, Genre, and the Victorian Dramatic Monologue describes how female and male poets used the dramatic monologue to create a dialogue about gender and subjectivity. I first chart the evolution of the dramatic monologue by explaining changing Victorian literary critical values as evident in the use of the terms subjective and objective. As opposed to earlier literary interest in objectivity, later Victorian poets use the monologue to experiment with new subject positions, valuing individual perspectives most. I trace this pattern in the way Victorian poets across the period use the developing monologue to create often simultaneous and overlapping conversations about subjectivity. In the first conversation, poets such as Levy, Mew, and “Michael Field” (Bradley and Cooper) use the Magdalen figure to create a powerful subject position through the fusion of the sexualized and objectified female body and the embodiment of divine female power. In the second conversation, poets feature the prostitute as the ultimate example of an other consumed in an intimate, yet impersonal, relationship in order to explore whether individuals can achieve critical distance, the ability to observe and judge objectively, or whether observation requires a violent mastering of the other, turning the other into an object. Such poems include Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Jenny, Webster's A Castaway, and Browning's Fifine at the Fair. In the third conversation, Christina Rossetti and Mary Coleridge, among others like Hopkins, Swinburne, and “Field,” all experiment with the poetic genre to probe the very paradox at the core of this project—the abject position made subjectively powerful. In the fourth conversation, turn-of-the-century poets like Levy and Kendall create individual speakers with multiple subjectivities, and poets like Webster embrace similar multiplicity through allusive techniques that provide positions of power.
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Luu, Helen. "Impossible Speech: 19th-century women poets and the dramatic monologue." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1262.
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This study seeks to redress the continued exclusion of women poets from the theorization of the dramatic monologue. I argue that an unacknowledged consensus on the definition of the dramatic monologue exists, in spite of the oft-proclaimed absence of one, and that it is the failure to recognize this consensus which has in part debarred women poets from the theorization of the form. In particular, the failure to acknowledge this consensus has led recent feminist critics attempting to “rethink” the dramatic monologue, such as Cynthia Scheinberg and Glennis Byron, to reinscribe the very model they are attempting to rewrite by admitting into their analysis only those poems which already conform to the existing model. In consequence, these critics inadvertently repeat the exclusion they are attempting to redress by reinscribing a model which is predicated—as both Scheinberg and Byron acknowledge—on the exclusion of women poets. In order to end this cycle of exclusion, my project begins from a different beginning, with Hemans instead of Browning, and traces her innovations and influence across the dramatic monologues of two key dramatic monologists of the 19th-century, Augusta Webster and Amy Levy. In the hands of all three women poets, the dramatic monologue develops into a form which calls into question not only the nature of the self, as is characteristic of Browning’s model, but more crucially, the possibility of the subject. Their poems persistently dramatize what Judith Butler calls “impossible speech”—speech that is not recognized as the speech of a subject—and thereby challenges the model of authoritative speaking which underpins both men’s dramatic monologues and the prevailing theory of women’s as a clutch for linguistic freedom, power and authority. This project therefore has dual aims: to complicate our current conception of the dramatic monologue by placing the women’s dramatic monologues in conversation with the larger tradition of the form; and to complicate our understanding of 19th-century women poets’ conception and constructions of female subjectivity by re-theorizing their poetic strategies in the development of the dramatic monologue.Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2008-06-26 14:13:29.982
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Lan, Wen-lin, and 藍文玲. "The Male Narrators in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04232050201154094444.
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The present thesis is a study of Robert Browning’s male narrators in his dramatic monologues that deal with problematic man-woman relationships. Being a renovator of the poetic genre of dramatic monologue, Browning employs it to present men’s innermost struggle and obscure emotions in love. While the Victorian gender stereotype emphasizes men’s preoccupation with the business world, he demonstrates men’s intense relation with love. In his poems depicting man-woman relationships, men’s struggles are mainly caused by their eagerness to retain their masculinity, namely, the patriarchal order. This thesis is to explore the concept of masculinity in Browning’s poems. It examines Browning’s typical egoistic men and men’s fantasy about women’s passion. Browning’s female narrators are also discussed to underscore the male-dominated viewpoint on man-woman relationships. Meanwhile it explores Browning’s artist characters, including artists as narrators and not as narrators. Close textual analysis will be made of a selection of poems from Dramatic Lyrics (1842), Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), Men and Women (1855), and Dramatis Personæ (1864) to see the poet’s pondering upon men’s twisted emotions.
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Celárková, Michaela. "Poetika vybraných her Ronalda Schimmelpfenniga uvedených na českých scénách v kontextu současného německojazyčného divadla." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-324798.
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This thesis presents the work of a contemporary German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig in a wider context. In the main chapter, the author focuses on the analysis of five Schimmelpfennig's plays that have been performed also on Czech theatre stages. The analysis emphasizes the elements of a dramatic structure that Schimmelpfennig uses in an innovative way: epization of texts, unrealistic treatment of dramatic time, elements of magic realism etc. The author also pays attention to a general characteristic of a contemporary German-speaking theatre with respect to the topics that it deals with. A significant part of the work is devoted to classifying Roland Schimmelpfennig's work in the historical and theoretical context of a contemporary German-speaking theatre. A book called Die Rückkehr der Helden by a German author Nikolaus Frei, which questions some opinion on the recent development of theatre presented in a book Postdramatisches Theater by Hans Thiese Lehmann, has become a crucial source for this thesis. Nikolaus Frei copes with the question of animateness/inanimateness of theatre and by using extracts from particular dramatic texts by contemporary authors proves a possible continuity of mimesis, realistic acting and conflicts on the stage until the 21st century. In conclusion, it is possible...
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Boloka, Gibson Mashilo Simon. "A pragmatic approach to C.L. Leipoldt's early dramatic monologues / Gibson Mashilo Simon Boloka." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14628.
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This mini-dissertation is a pragmatic analysis of C.L. Leipoldt' s early dramatic monologues. The term pragmatics refers to the "study of language in use" (Sell 1991: 193). Levinson (1983:7) defines pragmatics as "the study of language from a functional perspective". In brief, pragmatics is concerned with how communication takes place in a particular situation. C. Louis Leipoldt's dramatic monologues are characterized by a conversational technique. A dramatic monologue, to use the Abrams' words, "is a speech by a single individual" (1988:46), which makes it unlikely that a dramatic monologue can be regarded as the interaction between a speaker and his listener. This mini-dissertation investigated the applicability of the pragmatic aspects of speaker-listener interaction, the cooperative principle (which includes maxims), speech acts, contextual elements like rhetoric, deixis, anaphora and deviation to C.L. Leipoldt' s dramatic monologues. It has been demonstrated that a dramatic monologue can be perceived as like any other communicative situation. However, because of the limited scope of this mini-dissertation,
the focus has been on essential aspects of pragmatics as outlined above. They have been applied mainly to two poems, namely Oom Gert Vertel and Vrede-aand. But at times reference has been made to two other poems, Sekretarisvoel and Kriekie! Kriekie!. The study has demonstrated that it is possible to adopt a pragmatic analysis to C.L. Leipoldt's dramatic monologues. Taking the text as a medium of communication, put Leipoldt' s early dramatic monologues in a new light. These poems, like any communication medium, are subject to communicative constraints. Because pragmatics has as its central concept context,. poetry does not remain confined to specific periods, but can be recontextualized for the preseThesis (MA (Toegepaste Linguistiek))--PU for CHE, 1998
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Tsambo, T. L. (Theriso Louisa). "The theme of protest and its expression in S. F. Motlhake's poetry." Diss., 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16225.
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In the Apartheid South Africa, repression and the heightening of the Blacks' struggle
for political emancipation, prompted artists to challenge the system through their
music, oral poetry and writing. Most produced works of protest in English to reach a
wider audience. This led to the general misconception that literatures in the
indigenous languages of South Africa were insensitive to the issues of those times.
This study seeks firstly to put to rest such misconception by proving that there is
Commitment in these literatures as exemplified in the poetry of S.F. Motlhake.
Motlhake not only expresses protest against the political system of the time, but also
questions some religious and socio-cultural practices and institutions among his
people. The study also examines his selected works as genuine poetry, which does not
sacrifice art on the altar of propaganda.African Languages
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