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Maxwell, Catherine. "Looking and perception in nineteenth century poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8f4ff9be-6c07-4060-b777-6a7402d024c7.
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The thesis examines a series of nineteenth century poets whose poems are concerned with complex relations of looking and perception, and concentrates on Shelley and the poets he influenced: Browning, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Hardy. It focusses on poems dealing with the visual arts and aesthetic modes of perception, and concludes with a study of Walter Pater - an unrecognised follower of Shelley - and his notions of artistic character. An emphasis on the way face and bodily form are scrutinised, in poems concerning painting, sculpture and portraiture, leads to the hypothesis that the way the poet pictures essence or character through corporeal form is correlative to the essence or character of his own poetry. The particular spatial relations and visual representations of the poetry provide an index to specific patterns of reading. At the heart of this examination is a Shelleyan conception of the "unsculptured image", the characterising force and pre-given perspective of a poet's poem, which has a primary shaping effect on his language and representations, and continues to exert itself in the poem's reading. As this "image" is an imaginative rather than purely linguistic force, the analyses of selected poems avoid reduction to considerations of language and rhetoric alone, seeking rather to engage with the question of what constitutes a writer's own essence or particularity and what gives a strong poem its compulsive power. The thesis draws on the work of the French literary critic Maurice Blanchot to inform its ideas of poetic space and depth, and to produce an understanding of the poetic text very different from that given by a classical reading; and so alter the way one perceives the poem as literary object. In addition to this, certain nineteenth century and earlier aesthetic writings, and the prose works of the poets themselves, establish the critical basis of the arguments advanced. The thesis also endeavours to follow through the arguments of traditional scholarship in order to provide critique on distinctions or departures made. Chapter I examines Shelley's 'On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery'; Chapter II deals with portraiture in Browning's 'My Last Duchess' and Rossetti's The Portrait'; Chapter III turns to the sculpture of the hermaphrodite in Swinburne's early lyric 'Hermaphroditus'; Chapter IV looks at Thomas Hardy's poems about sketches and shades; Chapter V is an epilogue in which the work of Walter Pater draws together the ideas developed in the rest of the thesis.
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Holmgren, Michele J. "Native muses and national poetry, nineteenth-century Irish-Canadian poets." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq28493.pdf.
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Taher-Kermani, Reza. "The Persian 'presence' in nineteenth-century English poetry." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658568.
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This thesis examines the 'presence' of Persia' in nineteenth-century English poetry. The focus is not on translations of Persian poetry as such, but on the ways in which knowledge of Persia, derived from a variety of sources including classical and biblical texts, history, and travel-writing, entered into English poetry in the period. Such knowledge may shape the structure of a poem, or Its verbal texture, and may do so at different levels of intensity and significance. This complex phenomenon cannot fully be covered by the term 'influence'; the term 'presence' encompasses a variety of . literary engagements including translation, imitation, interpretation, representation, conscious allusion, and indirect borrowing. The methodology of the thesis is neither that of conventional literary history, in which questions of influence and intertextuality are of primary concern, nor of cultural history, in which literature is seen as part of a broader analysis of the history of ideas. While recognising the importance of recent cross-cultural theories, notably Edward Said's Orientalism, it does not follow ,any theoretical model in its analysis of the poetic adaptation and appropriation of Persian stories, themes, and tropes. The poems themselves, whether considered in categories or as individual works, are the object of attention; particular emphasis is laid on elements that might be less 'visible' to English readers who lack knowledge of Persian literature in its original forms. The aim is to define the nature, and degree, of 'Persian-ness' in nineteenth-century English poetry. The term itself has multiple and shifting associations, but one strong connecting thread may be discerned in the poems discussed: the persistence, through a period in which British encounters with 'modem' Persia were increasing in the areas of diplomacy and trade, and in which knowledge of the country's history, language, and culture was becoming more exact and more detailed, of a fantasised 'Persia', or Persian 'imaginary', compounded of ancient and in some cases mythic elements. Structurally the thesis moves from context to text, and from general to specific: it begins with the provision of necessary contextual information about Anglo-Persian contacts before the nineteenth century, moves on to survey and classify the 'Persian tendency' in poetry of the period, and then offers case-studies of three central works: Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum (1853), Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat ofOmar Khayyam (1859), and Robert Browning's Ferishtah's Fancies (1884).
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Macpherson, F. G. A. "Poetry and political commitment in late nineteenth-century England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1324548/.
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The ‘committed’ writer as envisaged by Jean-Paul Sartre was one who used the medium of prose to incite the reader to effect change in the world; according to Sartre, poetry, with its tendency to treat language as an end in itself, could not be committed in this sense. There were, however, numerous poets in late nineteenth-century England who believed otherwise, writing verse intended to advance particular political causes. This thesis examines several of them, concentrating on writers who were committed to varieties of left-wing radicalism, and predominantly inspired by the aesthetics of the Romantic tradition. The Introduction sets out the historical and theoretical context of the thesis, with reference to the twentieth-century arguments of Sartre, Adorno and Bourdieu, which can be traced back to earlier debates on aestheticism. Chapter 1 looks at A.C. Swinburne’s engagement with the Italian republican cause in the poems published as Songs before Sunrise (1871), which exhibit his tendency towards idealised abstraction. Chapter 2 considers William Morris, a pivotal figure in the nascent socialist movement of the 1880s, whose background in writing medievalist narrative verse both shaped and limited his series of Chants for Socialists (1885) and the sequence The Pilgrims of Hope (1885-6). Chapter 3 looks at Edward Carpenter, a socialist writer and campaigner who wrote the long utopian poem Towards Democracy (1883-1904), inspired by Walt Whitman’s vision of homosexual comradeship. Chapter 4 surveys various ‘minor’ versifiers and commentators active in the same socialist milieu as Morris and Carpenter, including those who contributed to the songbook Chants of Labour (1888). Finally, Chapter 5 considers younger fin-de-siècle poets who diverged from the socialists either on grounds of aesthetic philosophy (e.g. Wilde) or political ideology (e.g. Kipling). A brief Afterword reflects on the seemingly diminished prospects for political verse in the twenty-first century.
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Wootton, Sarah. "Consuming Keats : nineteenth-century re-presentations in art and literature." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339951.
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Wain, Leah Elizabeth. "Christian frameworks and critical readings in mid-nineteenth-century women's poetry." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271945.
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Higson, Helen Elizabeth. "Representations of nineteenth century female domestic servants in text and image." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243568.
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Blair, Kirstie. "Proved on the pulses : the heart in nineteenth century poetry, 1830-1860." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251433.
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Matthews, Samantha. "Representations of the grave in nineteenth century English poetry : a selected commentary." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300631.
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Pappas, Robin Brooke. "Varieties of consciousness : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113022.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-277). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Blair, Emily. "Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic aesthetic : poetry the wrong side out /." Connect to Digital dissertations. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Rackley, Elizabeth. "Hierarchial Compositions in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art and Poetry." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625823.
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Scholes, Judith Jeannine. "Emily Dickinson, material rhetoric, and the ethos of nineteenth-century American women's poetry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53029.
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“Emily Dickinson, Material Rhetoric, and the Ethos of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry” examines the ethos of women’s poetry as it was negotiated through the material rhetoric of mid-nineteenth-century American periodicals, and Emily Dickinson’s strategic alignment with that ethos to paradoxically distance herself from the literary market. As I argue, Dickinson negotiated an enduring marginality that would forestall her entry into public modes of poetic address while she lived, in order to preserve a poetic address that could foster interpersonal affectivity. Establishing the methodological framework for my study, the introduction demonstrates how material rhetoric contributes to the ethos of poetry by defining ethos as emerging from a poetry’s delivery and reception in material contexts of address. Chapter 1 maps the ethos of women’s poetry as it develops in the U.S. between 1830 and 1864, and especially the crucial ground that Civil War newspapers provided for the negotiation of a gendered authorial ethos for women’s poetry. Chapter 2 demonstrates how Dickinson’s poetry was implicated in such negotiations, as her poems were published in her daily newspaper, the Springfield Republican, under literary editor Fidelia Hayward Cooke during the early 1860s. Arguing that this implication transformed her poetic address and prompted decisive action on her part to limit further publication, I then investigate the ethos Dickinson herself negotiated with poetry she addressed to correspondents. Chapter 3 reads Dickinson’s negotiation of an amateur ethos with her correspondent Thomas Wentworth Higginson as a deliberate move to indefinitely defer her entry into the literary market. Chapter 4 maps Dickinson’s practice of sending poetry as, in, or with letters to correspondents, to demonstrate her investment in mobilizing interpersonal affectivity through personal, specific—not public, unspecific—poetic address. This dissertation makes substantial contribution to the field in three ways: it redresses the critical omission of materiality in the study of the rhetoric of nineteenth century American women’s poetry; it extends feminist historiography of women’s rhetoric to include the materiality of poetic address; and it extends the study of Dickinson in context, by situating her among her peers, deeply and inextricably in the material context of mid-nineteenth-century periodical culture.Arts, Faculty of
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Coxall, Margot. "Motifs from the #Sleeping Beauty' fairy story in nineteenth century novels, poetry, and painting." Thesis, Keele University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386608.
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Messem, Catherine. "'Angers, fantasies and ghostly fears' : nineteenth century women from Wales and English-language poetry." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364769.
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Bronson-Bartlett, Blake. "Whitman's inscriptions: the logic of manuscript and civic space in nineteenth-century America." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5722.
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"Whitman's Inscriptions" examines the link between civic space and material practice in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Louisa May Alcott. Combining media studies, bibliography, and urban history, my dissertation argues that these four authors used manuscript as a medium of civic engagement in their published works. In each chapter, my comparative analyses of manuscript practices and published texts examine the historical layers of storage, formatting, and circulation conventions that assumed new forms in literary writing under the specific technological conditions of the industrial-urban era. Walt Whitman is the central figure of my project, as my dissertation title suggests, because his writings record the "noise" of the mid-nineteenth-century's industrial-urban conditions.
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Mahoney, Kathleen. "Musicality in nineteenth-century French poetry prior to the emergence of free verse : Baudelaire, MallarmeÌ." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268846.
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Baylis-Green, Caroline. "Queer subjectivities, closeting and non-normative desire in nineteenth-century women's poetry and life writing." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/617012/.
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This thesis aims to elucidate previously obscured aspects of nineteenth-century women’s writing, through the development of original approaches to the reading of gender ambiguity, queer subjectivities and non-normative desire. It challenges the removal of the closet from feminist, historicist scholarship and constructions of female sexuality based on an adherence to romantic friendship and lesbian continuum models. This research proposes original work, which breaks the links between Michel Foucault’s dating of the disciplinary coding of homosexuality and the assumed relationship with the closet. New readings are proposed which acknowledge, define and foreground multi-functional closets, inside and outside of texts. In refusing this removal this study also aims to open up a space for the consideration of closets as protective and supportive spaces as well as symptoms of oppression. Underexplored links between literary form, the repelling of social restriction and the relationship between literary conventions and non-binary positions are also highlighted to emphasise the radical potential of performative subjects in women’s writing. This project proposes the recovery of queer selves and subjective forms of identification in the work of seven/eight women writers Anne Lister, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, Michael Field and Amy Levy, spanning the long nineteenth century. It also offers new approaches by combining cross-genre analysis of poetry and life writing. Using activist language largely in advance of academic discourse, it asks questions about the changing significance of queerness as language and metaphor. This thesis uses diverse social, religious and literary bodies to illustrate the strength of same-sex communities and their role in providing safe spaces for queer, desiring interactions in the nineteenth century.
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Ballard, Kjerstin Evans. "“I take--No less than Skies”: Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century Meteorology." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5858.
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Emily Dickinson's poetry functions where scientific attention to the physical world and abstract theorizing about the ineffable intersect. Critics who emphasize the poet's dedication to the scientific often take for granted how deeply the uncertainty that underlies all of Dickinson's poetry opposes scientific discussion of the day. Meteorology is an exceptional nineteenth-century science because it takes as its subject complex systems which are inexplicable in Newtonian terms. As such, meteorology can articulate the ways that Dickinson bridges the divide between the unknown and the known, particularly as she relates to the interplay of nature and culture, the role of careful observation in the face of uncertainty, and issues of home and dwelling. These are themes integral to and further elaborated by contemporary ecocritical discourse.
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Ballard, Elizabeth Lyons. "Red-tinted landscape : the poetics of Indian removal in major American texts of the nineteenth century /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1989.
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Borchert, Nick. "Nameless wonders and dumb despair: rhetorics of silence in mid-nineteenth-century U.S. poetry and culture." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5720.
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Taking a cue from the occasional reticence of the often-exuberant American Romantic poetics, this project tracks what I call “rhetorics of silence” in verse: those moments where words are declared to be inadequate, impertinent, unavailable, unintelligible or otherwise unsuitable for a task that the poet has proposed. In this respect, the term “silence” functions here as a broad metaphor encompassing a number of meta-linguistic or meta-poetic gestures aimed at highlighting the shortcomings of knowledge and representation.
Whereas earlier critics have noticed these silences in haphazard ways, this project looks toward a systematic account of why and when nineteenth-century poets rely on gestures to the space beyond language. This intervention is especially useful for reading the seminal American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Because Whitman seems celebratory and Dickinson doleful, it has often been difficult to offer productive readings of the two in tandem. Where Whitman does resemble Dickinson, it is often thought to be in his poems that abandon or despair of his project for a democratic poetics. By contrast, working through the lyric and political verse of the lesser-known poetry of John Rollin Ridge, this project reads visionary and despairing silences as alike rhetorical gestures aimed at highlighting the common humanity of the poet and the reader. “Silence” is therefore an outgrowth of American ideology, albeit one that frequently allows poets to expand and query that ideology in ways that are not possible in the many corresponding but often blither deployments of rhetorical silence in the culture at large.
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Friedlander, Keith. "Born In a Crowd: Subjecthood Across Authorial Modes In the Nineteenth-Century Writer's Market." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35054.
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This dissertation examines representations of authorship and subjecthood in the Romantic period as products of market position and publishing mode. In doing so, it views the traditional concept of Romantic individualism commonly associated with the solitary poet as a strategy developed to help the author navigate a complex writer’s market. Rather than focusing upon individualism as the defining authorial model for this period, however, my project presents it as one example of a diverse range of representational strategies employed by different authors operating from different positions within the market. To this end, this study compares the authorial model of the independent poet with authors engaged in a variety of other modes of publishing, including hack essayists, serialized poets, periodical editors, and celebrity authors.
By examining authors operating across different publishing modes, I demonstrate that each one’s concept of public identity is shaped principally by his or her particular market position, as defined by working relationships with peers, involvement in the particulars of publishing, exchanges with the critical press, and engagement with readers. These authors include William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charles Lamb, and Francis Jeffrey. By juxtaposing their different models of authorship, this study seeks to bridge the longstanding discourse regarding the social isolation of the Romantic poet with more contemporary streams of scholarship into the material realities of the nineteenth-century publishing industry. Drawing upon the social philosophy of the Frankfurt School and Eric Gans’ theory of Generative Anthropology, I examine how different strategies of representation were developed to preserve personal meaning and sustain public attention. By comparing responses to the rise of the writer’s market and the ubiquity of print culture, this dissertation argues that Romantic period authors demonstrate a distinctly modern understanding of public identity as a product of mediation in mass media culture.
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Lewis, Staci E. ""In Death Thy Life is Found": An Examination of the Forgotten Poetry of Margaret Fuller." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0327102-153619/unrestricted/Lewis041002.pdf.
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Rubel, William Ilan. "Interconnectedness : affect, media theory, and the subject of emotion in nineteenth century nature poetry (Wordsworth, Dickinson, and Keats)." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12597.
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My focus in reading William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson is on the links among sensation, emotion, and subjectivity. I argue that nineteenth century nature poets challenged ideologically bounded agency, as constructed in political and religious discourses, in an experiential turn to affect that shifted the weight of attention from intellect to sensation. This modulation, from discursive to somatic attention, shifted the terms of political agency and the contexts for imagining individual freedom.
Though both nineteenth century nature poets and current media theorists share a common source thread in the affective philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, they address opposite sides of the spectrum of the potential of affect. Where the nineteenth century nature poet sees an opportunity to “counteract” the “degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation” and “extend the domain of the sensible,” the media theorist forewarns of an infiltration of information into biological life (‘bioinformatics’) by affective rather than discursive strategies, and of the “real subsumption” of biological subjects.
In both turns to affect, the bounded agent proves either more inter-relational or more serial than in received conceptions of the liberal enlightened humanist subject. For the Romantic nature poet, bounded agency proves relational in the relaxation of the discursive center into sensation. For the media theorist, bounded agency proves serial (a product of “machinic assemblage” ) in the breakdown of categorical divisions between life and information.
Pivotal to my argument is that in the Wordsworthian view, the turn to affect (exposure to the sensory impingements of natural phenomena and bodily emotion) has deconditioning effects, in stark contrast to current media theory, which notes affect’s creative potential but stresses its availability for biomediation and bioinformatics: Foucauldian “biopower.”
Reading key texts by Wordsworth, including Preface to Lyrical Ballads (PLB), Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, and The Excursion, I consider the philosophical exploration of affect theory and political agency in Massumi, Sedgwick, Noonan, Braidotti, Agamben, Clough, Deleuze and Latour; the cognitive theories of Verela, Johnson, and Damasio; the radical science of Sheldrake and Bohm; and the commentary of literary critics, notably M.H. Abrams and John Beer, on Wordsworth’s sense of Being and consciousness.
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Leahy, Sean. "As One Who From a Volume Reads: A Study of the Long Narrative Poem in Nineteenth-Century America." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1065.
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Though overlooked and largely unread today, the long narrative poem was a distinct genre available to nineteenth-century American poets. Thematically and formally diverse, the long narrative poem represents a form that poets experimented with and modified, and it accounted for some of the most successful poetry publications in the nineteenth-century United States. Drawing on contemporary theories of form and situating these poems within their literary-historical context, I discuss how our reading practices might be shaped by a greater attentiveness to the long narrative poem. My analysis will focus upon a small set of poems from across the nineteenth century, centering on works by Lucy Larcom and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. More than mere recovery, this project aims to illuminate a tradition in which poets ambitiously melded genres, claimed poetry’s place to shape public discourse, and thought deeply about the reading practices available to their audience. Along the way, I consider how the dominant critical categories in the study of poetry have occluded these poems, and what these poems might offer in terms renewing or revitalizing our analytical tools and concepts.
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Etheridge, Kate. "Dynamic reflections : mirrors in the poetic and visual culture of Paris from 1850 to 1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0ad79384-a85e-4fbd-93d5-d5b993844ffb.
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This thesis explores the transformation of the mirror's symbolic role in the poetry and visual art of late nineteenth-century Paris. For centuries the mirror has been associated with both truth and artifice, whether in religion, popular culture, art, or theories of aesthetics. In the context of nineteenth-century literature, M.H. Abrams uses the mirror to represent the age-old idea of the artist as an objective reflector of the world, juxtaposing this with the nineteenth-century notion of the artist as a subjective lamp. However, this thesis shows that, far from being abandoned as a symbol of artistic expression, the mirror motif was reclaimed and reinterpreted by Baudelaire and his artistic and poetic successors. The thesis argues that their works highlight the distortions and ambiguities that the mirror can produce, using it as a motif to challenge and alter our mode of vision. This thesis focuses on the visual and poetic culture of Paris between 1850 and 1900, when mirrors were increasingly visible in a range of public and private settings. Building on Walter Benjamin's descriptions of Paris as a city of mirrors and a locus of multiple, shifting gazes, the thesis examines how the perceptual experiences of modernity feed into the development of the mirror's symbolic role. Through a series of close readings, the thesis analyses the dynamics of mirror-vision and explores the shared preoccupations of art and poetry in their treatment of subjectivity, vision, and self-reflexive artistic practices. The thesis is arranged into three sections, examining texts by Charles Baudelaire, Henri de Régnier, Jules Laforgue, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Marie Krysinska, and artworks by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. The first section assesses Baudelaire's works as a turning point for the mirror's symbolic significance, particularly examining how Baudelaire reinterprets the association between mirrors and femininity. The second section explores this latter connection in the art and poetry of Baudelaire's late nineteenthcentury successors. The third section examines the mirror's appearance in various ambiguous or ill-defined spaces, assessing how this affects the reader's or viewer's perceptions. I conclude that in the art and poetry of this period, the mirror becomes an emblem of self-reflexivity. Through works that prioritise mobility, multiplicity, and fragmentation, these artists and poets subvert the mirror's associations with mimesis in order to expose the dynamic uncertainty of vision and artistic representation.
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Fletcher, Amie Christine. "Felicia Hemans Writes America: The Transatlantic Construction of America and Britain in the Nineteenth Century." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1089411894.
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Reno, Seth T. "Amorous Aesthetics: The Concept of Love in British Romantic Poetry and Poetics." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306247314.
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Garrard, Suz. "Manufacturing selves : the poetics of self-representation and identity in the poetry of three 'factory-girls', 1840-1882." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11578.
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This thesis is a transatlantic examination of self-representational strategies in factory women's poetry from circa 1848-1882, highlighting in particular how the medium of the working-class periodical enabled these socially marginal poets to subjectively engage with and reconfigure dominant typologies of class and gender within nineteenth-century poetics. The first chapter explores how working-class women were depicted in middle-class social-reform literature and working-class men's poetry. It argues that factory women were circumscribed into roles of social villainy or victimage in popular bourgeois reform texts by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Caroline Norton, and were cast as idealized domestic figures in working-class men's poetry in the mid-nineteenth century. The remaining three chapters examine the poetry of Manchester dye-worker Fanny Forrester, Scottish weaver Ellen Johnston, and Lowell mill-girl Lucy Larcom as case-studies of factory women's poetics in mid-nineteenth century writing. Chapter Two discusses the life and work of Fanny Forrester in Ben Brierley's Journal, and considers how Forrester's invocation of the pastoral genre opens new opportunities for urban, factory women to engage with ideologies of domestic femininity within a destabilized urban cityscape. Chapter Three considers the work of Ellen Johnston, “The Factory Girl” whose numerous poems in The People's Journal and the Penny Post cross genres, dialects, and themes. This chapter claims that Johnston's poetry divides class and gender identity depending on her intended audience—a division exemplified, respectively, by her nationalistic poetry and her sentimental correspondence poetry. Chapter Four explores the work of Lucy Larcom, whose contributions to The Lowell Offering and her novel-poem An Idyl of Work harness the language and philosophy of Evangelical Christianity to validate women's wage-labor as socially and religiously appropriate. Ultimately, this thesis contends that nineteenth-century factory women's poetry from Britain and America embodies the tensions surrounding the “factory girl” identity, and offers unique aesthetic and representational strategies of negotiating women's factory labor.
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Weber, Kim-Laura [Verfasser]. "Raising Environmental Awareness via Literature : Perceptions of Nature and the City in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary British Poetry / Kim-Laura Weber." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2020. http://d-nb.info/120531492X/34.
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Ryan, Natasha. "The poetics of glass in France, 1850-1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad30dccb-4017-461d-8785-810ff3312d4d.
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This thesis examines the representation of glass in French and Belgian poetry associated with the Symbolist and Decadent movements. It incorporates a number of authors, particularly focussing on Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Laforgue, Rodenbach, and Maeterlinck, but also encompassing more minor writers where appropriate, as well as some writers on the periphery of Symbolism and Decadence. The thesis investigates how the growing use of glass in architecture, technology, and visual art influenced late-nineteenth-century poets, providing these writers with a means by which to understand their social context as well as a multi-faceted metaphor through which to interrogate their own poetic mechanisms. Glass, in its various manifestations - windows, lenses, hothouses, aquariums, Exhibition halls, Art Nouveau glasswork, and stained glass - prompts meditation on such questions as: the interaction between subject and object; the relationship between fiction and reality; the infinite; poetic form; nature and artifice; and aesthetic identity. Ultimately, I combat the traditional understanding of this poetry as being solely concerned with the pure realm of dreams, the soul, and the 'Idée'. Instead, I insist on the material world as a starting point for this poetry, demonstrating that it is not immune to environmental factors, but rather that it uses its environment as a route towards the elusive 'Idée'. Glass is key to this process because its very ambiguity makes it a suitable embodiment of the tension between the material and the unknown, invisible, or ideal.
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Jones, Chris. "A deeper "Well of English undefyled" : the role and influence of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry : with particular reference to Hopkins, Pound and Auden." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14708.
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This thesis challenges the assumption that Chaucer is the father of the living English poetic tradition. Nobody would deny that poetry existed in a form of English before the fourteenth century, but it is commonly assumed that linguistic and cultural changes have made Anglo-Saxon poetry a specialist area of concern, of no use or interest to modern poets. It is demonstrated that during the nineteenth century, advances in linguistic and textual scholarship made Anglo-Saxon poetry more widely available than had been the case, probably since the Anglo-Norman period. Knowledge of Anglo-Saxon literature is subsequently communicated to poets, particularly after the subject is institutionalized in English departments at British and American universities. Chapter One charts this rise in awareness of Anglo-Saxon poetry and considers its effects on several nineteenth-century poets (William Barnes, Henry Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson and William Morris). Major studies then follow of Gerard Hopkins, Ezra Pound and W. H. Auden and the uses that they make of Anglo-Saxon in their own poetry. It is argued that through these writers Anglo-Saxon has had a more important impact on modern poetry than has been thought previously. Moreover, Anglo-Saxon is often included as part of a poetics that might be called 'modernist'. For each of the three poets under study, the nature of their contact with Anglo-Saxon poetry is determined from documentary evidence (whether at university, or via secondary literature), and different stylistic debts are examined by close readings of a number of poems. No previous work has attempted a detailed analysis of the uses to which these three writers put Anglo-Saxon poetry. This thesis offers such an analysis and synthesizes the different approaches to Anglo-Saxon in order to provide an overview of this phenomenon in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry.
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Ferreira, José Eduardo. "O processo de represendatação do eu na Clepsidra de Camilo Pessanha." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-26072011-143244/.
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A questão do intimismo tem ocupado um grande espaço de discussão nos estudos literários com abordagens críticas que ou veem na obra de arte um reflexo da vida do autor, ou tendem a negar qualquer valor subjetivo do texto literário (falando-se, até, na morte do autor). Cada um dos enfoques atribui uma importância diferente para o texto literário. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar as representações do eu na poesia de Pessanha sem, no entanto, fazer de sua poesia motivo para levantamentos biográficos do poeta. Buscou-se, a princípio, comparar as possíveis relações existentes entre intimismo e modernidade e, estendendo tal relação, comparou-se o intimismo de Pessanha com dois outros poetas significativos da lírica portuguesa do século XIX. Depois, investigou-se, partindo-se de leituras em close reading de poemas do autor, as relações que o eu e o outro estabelecem na poesia de Pessanha. Para tanto, utilizou-se a noção de vulnerabilidade e de estranheza do ser do filósofo Emanuel Lévinas. Por último, foram investigadas as representações diretas do eu e as representações do eu em terceira pessoa.The issue of intimism has occupied a large area of discussion in literary studies with critical approaches that, or see in a work of art a reflecting the life of the author, or tend to deny any subjective value the literary texts (talking, until, in \" author\'s death\"). Each of the approaches attaches a different importance to the literary text. This research aimed to investigate the representations of \"self\" in the poetry of Pessanha without, however, make of his poetry reason to the poet\'s biographical surveys. At first, we sought to compare the possibles relationships existents between intimism and modernity and, extending this relationship, we compare the intimism of Pessanha with two other significant poets of the nineteenth-century Portuguese poetry. Subsequently, we investigate starting from the reading in close reading of poems by the author, the relationship between the self\" and the \"other\" in the poetry of Pessanha. For both, the notion of vulnerability and strangeness of the being of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was utilized. Finally, we investigate the direct representations of the \"self and representations of the \"self\" in third person.
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Laffey, Seth Edward. "The Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Digital Edition (1889-1895)." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1499369594701871.
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Pegram, Juliette. "Baudelaire and the Rival of Nature: the Conflict Between Art and Nature in French Landscape Painting." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/163974.
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The rise of landscape painting as a dominant genre in nineteenth century France was closely tied to the ongoing debate between Art and Nature. This conflict permeates the writings of poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. While Baudelaire scholarship has maintained the idea of the poet as a strict anti-naturalist and proponent of the artificial, this paper offers a revision of Baudelaire's relation to nature through a close reading across his critical and poetic texts. The Paris Salon reviews of 1845, 1846 and 1859, as well as Baudelaire's Journaux Intimes , Paradis Artificiels and two poems that deal directly with the subject of landscape, are examined. The aim of this essay is to provoke new insights into the poet's complex attitudes toward nature and the art of landscape painting in France during the middle years of the nineteenth century.
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Gressman, Melissa R. "Performing Sincerity in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1450401175.
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Santiago, Emmanuel. "A musa de espartilho: o erotismo na poesia parnasiana brasileira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-19122016-093102/.
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As últimas décadas do século XIX foram marcadas por grandes transformações na sociedade brasileira. Além do fim da escravidão e da instauração do regime republicano, assistiu-se a um significativo crescimento das cidades, o que impactou o estilo de vida das classes instruídas e os valores herdados do sistema patriarcal. Em A musa de espartilho, o erotismo na poesia parnasiana brasileira é investigado em suas possíveis relações com seu contexto histórico-social, levando-se em conta as continuidades e descontinuidades com a sensibilidade romântica. Quatro poetas são estudados: Raimundo Correia, Alberto de Oliveira, Francisca Júlia e Luiz Delfino.The last decades of the nineteenth century were marked by major changes in Brazilian society. In addition to the end of slavery and the establishment of the Republican regime, there has been a significant growth of cities, which impacted the lifestyle of the educated classes and the inherited values from the patriarchal system. In A musa de espartilho (The muse wearing a corset), the eroticism in Brazilian Parnassian poetry is investigated in its possible relations to its historical and social contexts, taking into account the continuities and discontinuities with the romantic sensitivity. Four poets are studied: Raimundo Correia, Alberto de Oliveira, Francisca Julia and Luiz Delfino.
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Canvat, Raphaël. "On Mad Geniuses & Dreams In the Age of Reason in French Récits Fantastiques." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343124370.
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Kim, Joanne S. "Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523659373305353.
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Xu, Hongxia. "Poet as teacher : Wordsworth's practical and poetic engagement with education." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9463.
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This thesis revisits William Wordsworth’s practical and poetic engagement with education as epitomised in his claim that “Every Great poet is a Teacher: I wish either to be considered as a Teacher, or as nothing.” By situating this claim in the larger contexts of Wordsworth’s writings and Britain’s educational development from the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, it argues that Wordsworth advocated a poetic education of receptive and creative imagination as a corrective to the practical education of passive learning and reading, and that his authority as a poet-teacher was confirmed rather than challenged by the wide divergence of his reception in Nineteenth Century Britain. The introduction defines the research topic, argues for Wordsworth’s relevance as a poet-teacher against his dubious reception in contemporary educational institutions, and examines some mistaken notions of him as a poet of nature and childhood. Chapter One investigates Wordsworth’s lifelong critique of contemporary pedagogical theories and practices for their confusion of education with instruction and their neglect of religion. Chapter Two studies Wordsworth’s proposal for an alternative mode of poetic education that relies on nature, books, and religion to foster the individual’s religious imagination, which informed Wordsworth’s vocation as a poet, and underlay the revisions of the educational backgrounds of his major poetic speakers. Chapter Three explores Wordsworth’s endeavours to cultivate readers’ receptive and creative imagination against the prevalent literary taste through differentiating strategies of communication in his poetic theories and short poems written between 1794 and 1815. Chapter Four discusses the educational uses made of Wordsworth’s poetry through studying the representative selections of his poems edited by Victorian educators, so as to reveal the slow, winding, but steady process of his being recognised as a teacher in both practical and poetic senses. The thesis concludes with a reaffirmation of Wordsworth’s authority and relevance as a teacher, both then and now.
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Nickerson, Anna Jennifer. "Frontiers of consciousness : Tennyson, Hardy, Hopkins, Eliot." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277879.
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‘The poet’, Eliot wrote, ‘is occupied with frontiers of consciousness beyond which words fail, though meanings still exist’. This dissertation is an investigation into the ways in which four poets – Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – imagine what it might mean to labour in verse towards the ‘frontiers of consciousness’. This is an old question about the value of poetry, about the kinds of understanding, feeling, and participation that become uniquely available as we read (or write) verse. But it is also a question that becomes peculiarly pressing in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. In my introductory chapter, I sketch out some of the philosophical, theological, and aesthetic contexts in which this question about what poetry might do for us becomes particularly acute: each of these four poets, I suggest, invests in verse as a means of sustaining belief in those things that seem excluded, imperilled, or forfeited by what is felt to be a peculiarly modern or (to use a contested term) ‘secularized’ understanding of the world. To write poetry becomes a labour towards enabling or ratifying otherwise untenable experiences of belief. But while my broader concern is with what is at stake philosophically, theologically, and even aesthetically in this labour towards the frontiers of consciousness, my more particular concern is with the ways in which these poets think in verse about how the poetic organisation of language brings us to momentary consciousness of otherwise unavailable ‘meanings’. For each of these poets, it is as we begin to listen in to the paralinguistic sounds of verse that we become conscious of that which lies beyond the realms of the linguistic imagination. These poets develop figures within their verse in order to theorize the ways in which this peculiarly poetic ‘music’ brings us to consciousness of that which exceeds or transcends the limits of the world in which we think we live. These figures begin as images of the half-seen (glimmering, haunting, dappling, crossing) but become a way of imagining that which we might only half-hear or half-know. Chapter 2 deals with Tennyson’s figure of glimmering light that signals the presence, activity, or territory of the ‘higher poetic imagination’; In Memoriam, I argue, represents the development of this figure into a poetics of the ‘glimpse’, a poetry that repeatedly approaches the horizon of what might be seen or heard. Chapter 3 is concerned with Hardy’s figuring of the ‘hereto’ of verse as a haunted region, his ghostly figures and spectral presences becoming a way of thinking about the strange experiences of listening and encounter that verse affords. Chapter 4 attends to the dappled skins and skies of Hopkins’ verse and the ways in which ‘dapple’ becomes a theoretical framework for thinking about the nature and theological significance of prosodic experience. And Chapter 5 considers the visual and acoustic crossings of Eliot’s verse as a series of attempts to imagine and interrogate the proposition that the poetic organisation of language offers ‘hints and guesses’ of a reality that is both larger and more significant than our own.
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Wilsey, Shannon K. "Interpretations of Medievalism in the 19th Century: Keats, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/20.
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This thesis describes how different 19th century poets and artists depicted elements of the medieval in their artwork as a means to contradict the rapid progress and metropolitan build-up of the Industrial Revolution. The poets discussed are John Keats and Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the painters include William Holman Hunt and John William Waterhouse. Examples of the poems and corresponding Pre-Raphaelite depictions include The Eve of Saint Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and The Lady of Shalott.
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Adachi, Kazuhiko. "La genèse de l’esthétique réaliste de Maupassant jusqu’à Une vie : la naissance d’un écrivain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040189.
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Quand un écrivain est-il né ? Nous tentons de répondre à cette question en ce qui concerne Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Nous examinons d’abord les œuvres de jeunesse, écrites dans les années 1870, poésie, théâtre et prose, où Maupassant rejette le romantisme sentimental et exprime sa vision matérialiste du monde, en s’attachant au corps et à la nature. Dans ces exercices poétiques, il acquiert un art descriptif impressionniste aussi bien que ses principes littéraires comme l’originalité et l’indépendance. Nous abordons ensuite la transformation du poète en prosateur, en nous focalisant sur la nouvelle « Boule de suif » (1880). Lorsque le poète projette ses regards autour de lui, il peut enfin objectiver sa propre vision. La prose lui permet de socialiser son regard critique. La découverte de cette potentialité de la prose est suivie de celle du journalisme, qui aide notre écrivain à élargir son monde littéraire. En suivant par étapes l’activité journalistique de Maupassant, nous constatons la consolidation de son esthétique réaliste, où faire vrai et faire beau ne font qu’un, l’esthétique et l’éthique s’unissant solidement. De plus, en unissant le fait divers et la fiction, il trouve dans le récit bref sa propre forme littéraire susceptible de toucher le lecteur. Enfin Une vie (1883), premier roman, en rassemblant toutes les caractéristiques de la prose de Maupassant, représente pleinement sa vision personnelle du monde, désabusée et pessimiste. Notre étude permettra de comprendre que la naissance d’un écrivain ne s’est pas faite en un jour. En suivant le parcours de l’écrivain, il sera ainsi possible d’éclairer les sens des expériences et de la maturité d’un hommeWhen was a writer born? We try to answer this question in the case of Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). We examine at first his young works, left in the 1870s, such as the poetry, the theater plays and the prose, in which Maupassant rejects the sentimental romanticism, and expresses his materialistic vision of the world, by growing attached to the body and to the nature. In these poetic exercises, he acquires the impressionistic descriptive art as well as his own literary principles such as originality and independence. Then, we consider the conversion of the poet to the prose-writer, by focusing on the “Boule de suif” (1880). When the poet throws his eyes around him, he can finally objectivize his own vision. The prose allows him to socialize his critical eye. The discovery of this potentiality of the prose is followed by that of the journalism, which helps our writer to enlarge his literary world. By following stage by stage the journalistic activity of Maupassant, we notice the consolidation of his realistic aesthetics, where to make really and to make beautiful are only one, the aesthetics and the ethics uniting firmly. Furthermore, by uniting the news item and the fiction, he finds in the brief narrative his own literary shape susceptible to touch the reader. Finally Une vie (1883), the first novel, collecting all the characteristics of the prose of Maupassant, represents completely his personal vision of the world, disenchanted and pessimistic. Our study allows us to understand that the birth of a writer is not made in one day. By following the career of the writer, we can enlighten the meanings of the experiments and of the maturity of a man
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Pouffary, Yaël. "Emily Dickinson : le courant ophélien, poésie et représentations picturales." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AZUR2008.
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Cette recherche a pour objectif de faire émerger l’essence d’Ophélie, au sein de la poésie et de la vie d’Emily Dickinson. Fondés sur une étude comparative d’Emily Dickinson et des représentations d’Ophélie, ces travaux mettent en exergue l’influence indéniable qu’a eue ce personnage dit ‘mineur’ sur la poésie et l’imaginaire du poète, ainsi que son rôle ‘majeur’ sur elle et sur son art. Jean-Luc Nancy explique qu’il existe un point où l’image non-figurative peut elle aussi exister. Il s’agit du point où image et texte fusionnent, où les frontières se brouillent : On parle alors d’un sens à l’essence. Il s’exprime ici dans la force qu’a Emily Dickinson de faire apparaître Ophélie, mais sans jamais l’actualiser entièrement. Cette capacité est propre au poète, comme le définit Emerson. C’est aussi la multiplicité qu’offre Shakespeare au personnage d’Ophélie, cette même symbolique ophélienne, créée grâce aux multiples superpositions de calques qui se retrouvent à travers ses différentes représentations et les exploitations diverses de son iconographie. En se fondant fidèlement sur la doctrine originaire d’Horace « Ut Pictura Poesis erit », Ophélie prend vie dans la poésie d’Emily Dickinson. Cette doctrine rapporte les arts du langage à ceux de l’image, et souligne qu’une poésie muette (la peinture) est comme une peinture parlante (art poétique). Le poète enrichit ainsi le statut de peintre en élargissant sa palette de définition. L’importance d’Ophélie, dans la structure artistique d’Emily Dickinson, est mise en évidence, telle une armature silencieuse à sa composition poétique. C’est pourquoi on ne peut parler d’imitation mais d’influence, qui se fonde sur le concept de Différenciation, de lignes de fuite, de cartographie et enfin de Devenir-mineur vers la création de l’unique. C’est en effet par la soustraction et non l’addition que se crée l’individualité, telle la définition même du rhizome donnée par Gilles Deleuze. Une sorte de beau et une certaine souveraineté de la vérité peuvent alors s’en dégager comme le définit Keats, ce qui évoque la quête centrale de circonférence du poète. Cette thèse s’appuie sur les points cardinaux qui permettent de suivre Emily Dickinson le long de son parcours circonférentiel de vie et sa quête de son Nord-Ophélien. Selon les définitions de la notion de Concept chez Hume, Hegel et Deleuze, la mise en lumière du Concept Ophélien chez Dickinson sera possible. Pour cela, le poète répond à quatre critères : avoir une base de mimesis avec Ophélie – ce qui correspond à l’Est ; avoir la capacité d’en produire des créations ophéliennes – localisées au Sud ; aboutir à une innovation évolutive de son art – positionnée à l’Ouest ; et enfin, atteindre l’immortalité – située au Nord. Au final, cela permettra de définir chez Emily Dickinson le Devenir-Carte Ophélien et son exploitation du Concept OphélienThe Essence of Ophelia within the poetry and life of the poet is unveiled, based on a comparative study of Emily Dickinson and the diverse uses of Ophelia throughout time. This allows to put into evidence the undeniable influence of this so-called ‘minor’ character on Emily Dickinson’s imagination, and her ‘major’ role on the poet and her art. Jean-Luc Nancy explains that there is a point where text and image fuse, where their borders blur and it results in a creation of a non-figurative image – which thus relies solely on individuals’ senses. Ophelia’s symbolism has an abundant amount of layers which allows innumerable interpretations, embellished by The Poet (as defined by Emerson). By leaning faithfully on Horace’s doctrine “Ut Pictura Poesis erit”, Ophelia comes to life in the poetry of Dickinson. Horace’s goals was to place the art of language on the same level as visual arts, thus the idea that a mute poetry (painting) is such as a vocal painting (poetry). This doctrine modifies the status of image and widens the painter’s palette. Consequently, Ophelia will be such as a silent foundation to Emily Dickinson’s poetry, where there is no imitation but solely an artistic influence with the notion of Differentiation, lines of flight, mapping and becoming-Minor which leads to the creation of the unique. According to Keats, it can equivocate to a sovereign truth, central quest of Dickinson’s circumferential journey. This dissertation leans on cardinal points to follow Emily Dickinson along her circumferential journey and her quest of the Ophelian North. Based on the definition of Concept by Hume, Hegel and Deleuze, the Ophelian Concept of Emily Dickinson will be brought forward. In order for that to be possible, the poet will match four criteria: have a mimesis base with Ophelia – which is found in the East, be able to create from that – located in the South, then have it lead to an innovative artistic response – positioned in the West, and finally, that immortality be attained – established in the North. This will allow a definition of Emily Dickinson’s Ophelian Becoming-map and her use of the Ophelian Concept
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De, Coster Camille. "Catalogue raisonné des citations littéraires figurant dans l’œuvre d’Emile Gallé (écrits et productions artistiques)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040032.
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Ce travail est consacré à Emile Gallé, chef de file de l’Ecole de Nancy, artiste dont les créations appartiennent aux réalisations majeures de l’Art Nouveau. Il était, en outre, passionné par la littérature et c’est cet aspect de sa personnalité, ayant fortement influencé son œuvre, que nous avons étudié. Notre recherche se base essentiellement sur le témoignage le plus concret que Gallé nous a laissé de son intérêt pour les textes : les nombreuses citations qu’il a gravées sur ses œuvres (de verre, bois ou porcelaine), ou dont il a émaillé ses écrits. Leur importance réside dans le fait qu’elles sont partie prenante de la création artistique, puisque Gallé semblait parfois créer une pièce après avoir été subjugué par un passage littéraire. C’est pourquoi il nous a semblé nécessaire de répertorier en détail, sous la forme d’un catalogue raisonné, l’ensemble des citations que l’artiste a choisi d’extraire d’œuvres littéraires du 19e siècle. Nous avons fait suivre ce recensement d’un classement thématique, visant à éclairer les sujets de prédilection de l’artiste. Cette description permettant de faire, en conclusion, quelques remarques concernant les thématiques principales des œuvres. Si ce catalogue constitue le cœur de notre travail, il nous est apparu indispensable d’envisager aussi au préalable la vie d’Emile Gallé, afin de mieux appréhender les influences principales ayant déterminé sa sensibilité littéraire et artistique. La première partie de notre thèse revêt donc un aspect ouvertement biographiqueThis research is dedicated to the works of Emile Gallé, leader of the Ecole de Nancy and an artist whose creations belong in Art Nouveau's major achievements. He was also very fond of literature and it is this aspect of his personality, which had a major impact on his works, that has been here focused on. This study is mostly based on Gallé's most tangible account of his interest for words : the many quotations he himself carved on his creations (in glass, wood or china) or referred to in his own writings. Their importance lies in the fact that they are truly part of his creative process since Gallé would sometimes create a piece after being enthralled by some literary passage he had read. This is the reason why it felt necessary to list exhaustively every quotation the artist chose to extract from 19th century literary works and present them as an annotated catalogue. This inventory is followed by a thematic classification highlighting the artist's favourite topics. The main themes here depicted are then discussed and confronted in the conclusion. The catalogue may be at the heart of this study but it also seemed inconceivable not to mention Emile Gallé's life so as to understand the main influences ruling his artistic and literary sensitivity. The first part of this research thus deliberately takes on a biographic aspect
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Sifakis, Eugenia Myrto. "Identity in travel : English poets in Italy in nineteenth century." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266155.
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Hussein, Amal Ragaa Bassyouni. "Transatlantic Romanticism : the English Romantics and American nineteenth−century poetic tradition." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3197/.
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This thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources. An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition.
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Bonifacio, Peralta Ayendy José. "Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155533852650219.
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Flagg, La Donna M. "To say one thing the poetic of the nineteenth-century Christian apologetic novel /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1995. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9529029.
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Iloliev, Abdulmamad. "Poetic expression of Pamiri Ismāʻīlism : the life and thought of Mubārak-I Wakhānī, a nineteenth-century mystic poet and religious scholar." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273417.
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This thesis focuses on research conducted in the mountainous Pamir region of Tajikistan concerning the life and thought of Mubärak-i Wakhäni (d. 1903), a mystic poet, scholar, musician and artist. It aims to determine Mubärak's role as a prominent mystic poet from the geographically remote Wakhan region of the Pamirs. It explores the ways in which he contributed to the Persian Sufi poetic heritage as well as enriching the Ismaili tradition of the peoples of Pamir. The specific aim of this dissertation is the study of Mubarak as a window into the understanding of the religious and cultural tradition of the Pamiris throughout history. It is argued that Mubärak's religious poetry is both an expression of his personal religious experience and a reflection of the religious tradition to which he belonged; it is a twodimensional spectrum of self-assertion and communal representation. In order to understand the complex and dynamic nature of his work, this study examines Mubärak in the historical and doctrinal framework of the Pamiri Ismä'Yli tradition. Chapter One presents a brief historical study of the religious development in Pamir from the beginning of the Ismä'ili mission (da'wa), which is strongly connected with the name of Näsir-i Khusraw, the eleventh-century Persian poet-philosopher, until the nineteenth century. Chapter Two presents the first ever biography of the hitherto unstudied poet, Mubärak. This chapter is based on both his personal accounts and oral stories and narratives I collected from Mubärak's relatives who continue to live in his ancestral village. Chapter Three seeks to provide an examination of Mubärak's theosophical discourse; it does so in the light of a consideration of Ismä'i1i esotericism and Sufi mysticism, and argues that these two important strands of Islamic thought are reconciled in a unique and creative way in the works of Mubärak, thus, illuminating the complexity of Islamic thought and practice in the local Pamiri context. Chapter Four discusses Mubärak's treatise, entitled 'the Forty Worlds', in which the key doctrinal principles of the indigenous religious tradition or, as it is referred to in this thesis, 'Pamiri Ismä'ilism', are canonized. This chapter advances a broader argument concerning the impact of cultural and religious diversity on the composition of the Ismä'ili tradition, a dimension of Ismä'ili studies hitherto largely overlooked by historians and Islamic specialists. The original material utilized in the preparation of this thesis is derived from Mubärak's manuscripts which have never before been the focus of sustained research coverage; indeed, their very existence was known only to a very restricted circle of Mubärak's relatives, and some local scholars, who have hitherto been unable either to study or analyze them in any great depth.