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LeRud, Elizabeth. "Antagonistic Cooperation: Prose in American Poetry." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22646.
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Poets and critics have long agreed that any perceived differences between poetry and prose are not essential to those modes: both are comprised of words, both may be arranged typographically in various ways—in lines, in paragraphs of sentences, or otherwise—and both draw freely from the complete range of literary styles and tools, like rhythm, sound patterning, focalization, figures, imagery, narration, or address. Yet still, in modern American literature, poetry and prose remain entrenched as a binary, one just as likely to be invoked as fact by writers and scholars as by casual readers. I argue that this binary is not only prevalent but also productive for modern notions of poetry, the root of many formal innovations of the past two centuries, like the prose poem and free verse. Further, for the poets considered in this study, the poetry/prose binary is generative precisely because it is flawed, offering an opportunity for an aesthetic critique.
“Antagonistic Cooperation: Prose in American Poetry” uncovers a history of innovative writing that traverses the divide between poetry and prose, writing that critiques the poetry/prose binary by combining conventions of each. These texts reveal how poetry and prose are similar, but they also explore why they seem different and even have different effects. When these writers’ texts examine this binary, they do so not only for aesthetic reasons but also to question the social and political binaries of modern American life—like rich/poor, white/black, male/female, gay/straight, natural/artificial, even living/dead—and these convergences of prose and poetry are a textual “space” each writer creates for representing those explorations. Ultimately, these texts neither choose between poetry and prose nor do they homogenize the two, affirming instead the complex effects that even faulty distinctions may have had historically, and still have, on literature—as on life. By confronting differences without reducing or erasing them, these texts imagine ways to negotiate and overcome modes of ignorance, invisibility, and oppression that may result from these flawed yet powerful dichotomies.
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Muris-Prime, C. F. E. "Translation and the aesthetics of prose poetry." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469277/.
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Translation is generally understood as the transformation of text from one language into another. But translation is also a dialogue between two languages, between two versions of a text, and between author and translator. Such dialogue involves thought on language, its usage and potential, and on literary creation itself. Poetry also involves attention to, and experimentation with, language and contains a constant analysis of its own expression. This dissertation examines this coincidence of translation and poetry and seeks to explore how translation, both in theory and in practice, illuminates the understanding of a key development in modern French poetry: the prose poem. It analyses the relationship between the practice of translation and thought on translation, and the development of the new poetic form which is prose poetry. It concentrates on the aesthetics of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud, and shows that in each case an intensely self-reflexive poetics is driven by an engagement with translation. Divided into two parts, the dissertation first considers each poet’s differing relation to translation. It shows that translation enabled Baudelaire to develop his own style, that it shaped Mallarmé’s relationship with common language, and that it sits at the heart of Rimbaud’s poetic ethics. The second part concentrates on the specific issues of the prose poem in relation to translation, and demonstrates that the form distils fundamental issues in translation and is in turn shaped by them. The prose poem oscillates between two literary forms, and is itself a form in translation, engaging with its different versions. Baudelaire’s, Mallarmé’s and Rimbaud’s poetic experiments in prose echo and reflect each other. The prose poem and its generation in translation provide a critical space where the three-way dialogue between these defining figures of modernism may be heard and examined.
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Kaverud, Kristina. "The poetry and prose of David Gascoyne." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27685.
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Cogar, Jessica L. "Pearl Anthology: Prose Poems." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492689133782808.
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Sedlak, Emma Adams. "Origin stories and contemporary epistles in American prose poetry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26043.
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My poetry portfolio is 75 pages long, and consists of single poems as well as two series. The first series includes the ‘Good Work’ poems, which explore different ideas of ‘good work’ based on characters’ occupations, preoccupations and mental perspectives. The second series is the ‘Makar’ poems, depicting an imagined world in which the poet is a guardian angel or guiding force. The style of my poetry varies from lyric to prose poetry, with a few language-focused abstract poems, and more formal styles, like a villanelle. Dreaming and waking are two themes that reflect aspects of reality and perception. Much of my portfolio is rooted in reflections of identity: Identity in terms of work, and the story we tell to the world about what we do; identity in terms of inter-personal relationships and how those connections form who we become; identity in terms of memory, and the story of who we have been; and identity in terms of the stories we tell ourselves about who we think we are. And if none of those stories align, what kind of fragmented self-identity does that reveal? The narrative poems often use different characters and personas in order to enact these lenses of identity. Even with only a few epistles in the collection, my poetry has been influenced by the epistolary ideas of separation and reunion (as critic Altman describes them: ‘bridge’ and ‘distance’). Similarly, the prose poems often riff on the unification and distancing of various themes, in a mediation of together- and apart-ness. I have used letters and diary-entries as addresses to the audience, and also as invitations for the reader to access the poem through different points of entry. My academic thesis focuses on the utilisation of epistles in contemporary American prose poetry. It is 26,000 words, and is divided into three sections: focused on Epistles: Poems by Mark Jarman; Letters to Kelly Clarkson by Julia Bloch, and The Desires of Letters by Linda Brown; and Dear Editor: Poems by Amy Newman. Why are we still writing poems as letters when we don’t habitually write letters for personal correspondence anymore? The poem-as-letter, or epistle, offers the ability to craft complex relationships within the reader/author, writer/recipient, and open/closed dynamics of intimacy in literature. The criticism is framed within the methodology of reader-response theory, and draws upon examples of epistles in history and literature to connect and establish themes.
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Hansen, Egon. "Emotional processes : engendered by poetry and prose reading." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 1986. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-81529.
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Fiorini, Jessica. "Light Suite." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/871.
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Light Suite is a collection of the work I produced during my enrollment in the University of New Orleans Low Residency M.F.A. program. The writing, format and length styles reflect my experimentation with my craft. It also provides insight as to what my "poetic voice" is. Light Suite attempts to entwine personal experience with engaged observation and occasional flights of fantasy. The following poems illustrate my attempt at diversifying personal, poetic style. There are travel, prose, and accidental meaning poems. There are poems that feature personal narrative and collaboration. All of my works do share one characteristic and that is the close relationship with visual representation of an oral experience. I employ white space, line breaks, line length, assonance and consonance to create works that are as close to my speaking voice as possible.
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Villarreal, Evert. "Recovering Carl Sandburg: politics, prose, and poetry after 1920." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4167.
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Chapter I of this study is an attempt to articulate and understand the factors that have contributed to Carl Sandburg's declining trajectory, which has led to a reputation that has diminished significantly in the twentieth century. I note that from the outset of his long career of publication - running from 1904 to 1963 - Sandburg was a literary outsider despite (and sometimes because of) his great public popularity though he enjoyed a national reputation from the early 1920s onward. Chapter II clarifies how Carl Sandburg, in various ways, was attempting to re-invent or re-construct American literature. Indeed, beginning in 1922, a very complex creative imagination - one not seen before - began to manifest itself in Sandburg's works. As a result, readers begin to see how Sandburg's view of the role of the writer was shifting - from one of a radical political poet into one of a writer who experimented with several genres. Chapter III examines the two separately published biographies of Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) - and reveals how Sandburg incorporates a new perspective that was radically different from the Lincoln biographies that preceded it. Chapter IV turns to Sandburg's celebration of the theme of "the People." The chapter explores four works - The American Songbag (1927), Good Morning, America (1928), The People, Yes (1936), and Remembrance Rock (1948). These works, like all of his previous works, are an effort to make life possible to the common man. Finally, Chapter V reminds readers of Sandburg's stature as witness to the labor problem - perhaps the most significant problem of the twentieth century. I argue that the only way to recover Sandburg correctly is to assess the political ideology present in each of his published works.
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Herbert, W. N. "Continuity in the poetry and prose of Hugh MacDiarmid." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314959.
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Cameron, Audrey. "Reacreatin' Scotland : the poetry and prose of Hugh MacDiarmid." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483981.
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This thesis explores the major stages of MacDiarmid's work, examining MacDiarmid's relationship with Scotland through his prose, poetry, and political activities. The introduction looks at the history of critical responses to MacDiarmid's work and explores the ways in which MacDiarmid's work has found itself at the centre of Scottish literary studies while it sits at the margins of the wider literary canon. It suggests that it is necessary to look again at the ways in which MacDiarmid engaged with the idea of Scotland throughout his career. Chapters Two, Three, and Four focus on the early period of his work (to Drunk Man). Chapter Two traces the development of his commitment to Scots and suggests that Drunk Man uncovers many of the contradictions which underlie 'A Theory of Scots Letter'. Chapter Three looks more specifically at the ways in which MacDiarmid images Scotland through his early work, focusing on the contrast between his commitment to an ideal Scotland and rejection of contemporary reality. Chapter Four explores the relationship between politics and literature in his early work and points to the ways in which the tensions of his later work are rooted in this early period. Chapters Five, Six and Seven move onto his middle period (from Cenrastus to Stony Limits). Chapter Five examines the ways in which the linguistic approach of this key phase comes out of his early work and looks forward to his final experimentations. Chapter Six explores his reinvention of an ideal Scotland in the Gaelic idea. Chapter Seven reads the political poems of the early thirties as an attempt to resolve the tensions between politics and poetry. The thesis concludes with a survey of his final poems and reveals the ways in which they combine his linguistic, cultural, and political aims in a vision of impossible desire.
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Davies, Pamela H. "Suicide in the prose and poetry of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1999. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.725251.
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Hawkins, Z. V. "Home in the prose and poetry of John Milton." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1420213/.
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This thesis will explore Milton’s writing in relation to the idea of home as a biographical and cultural influence. As such, it will primarily be concerned with his experiences of home, in as much as we can reconstruct them from his writing and early biographies, and with the contemporary socio-religious ideologies pertaining to homes and houses that may have influenced him. The primary aims of this thesis are: first, to add to knowledge of the poet’s life by bringing recent sociological and historical research on the material and social culture of the home in the seventeenth century to bear on our existing knowledge of Milton’s life; and secondly, to add to an understanding of his writing by using these conclusions alongside close readings and literary analysis to gain new insights into his poetry and prose. Then, as now, an individual’s experiences and expectations of home would have varied throughout his life and this study is therefore arranged broadly chronologically, and tracks the changes and continuities in Milton’s approach to the subject. In particular, it will explore how the young Milton responded to the relationship between patriarchalism, politics and house-holding, and the pressures this relationship placed on early-modern men. It will also examine how he was able to exploit this social ideology in his political prose, how this interacted with the wider political discussion of the civil war and its consequences, and how the use of the idea of home within these discussions influenced broader thinking on issues such as the relationship between ‘private’ and ‘public’ affairs. Finally, this study will explore the ways in which the home is discussed in Milton’s post-Restoration writing, and relate this to the question of whether he resorted to intellectual quietism in political defeat.
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周業珍 and Yip-chun Rita Chau. "A study of Zhu Ziqing's (1898-1948) poetry and prose." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31212153.
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Vasconcellos, Lisa Carvalho. "Solidão povoada: a representação do ortônimo na obra de Fernando Pessoa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-20102011-100410/.
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O presente trabalho procura contemplar a representação da figura que tradicionalmente conhecemos pelo nome de ortônimo, dentro da obra de Fernando Pessoa. Segundo os mais recentes estudos sobre o assunto, esse sujeito tem, na ficção heteronímica, um estatuto semelhante ao de Caeiro, Campos ou Reis. Nossa hipótese vai no sentido contrário e defende que, diferentemente dessas três personagens, o ortônimo é portador de uma dupla natureza compartilhando, ao mesmo tempo, o estatuto de autor e personagem. Para explicar como isso se dá fazemos uma análise dividida em duas partes. Na primeira, nos detemos na prosa de Pessoa, procurando delimitar o papel do ortônimo dentro da ficção heteronímica. Na segunda, fazemos um estudo comparativo entre certos aspectos da poesia heteronímica e ortonímica, procurando mostrar como estatuto do eu que fala nessa última se afasta do mundo ideal dos heterônimos para figurar uma experiência literária que, em última instância, propõe uma reflexão a respeito do papel do autor dentro da obra.This thesis contemplates the representation of the orthonym in Fernando Pessoa´s poetic work. Recent studies defend the idea that it should have, in Pessoa´s fiction, the same status as the others heteronyms, Caeiro, Reis e Campos. We, however, disagree with that approach. Instead, we believe that the orthonym has a double status and can be understood also as a representation of the author in Pessoa´s work. In order to explain how this is possible, we make an analysis in two parts. First, we study Pessoa´s prose, trying to understand what is the orthonimic´s role in the heteronimic´s fiction. Then we make a comparative study of certain aspects of Pessoa´s poetry. Doing so, we intent to show that, while the heteronyms are represented as pure literary beings, the orthonym depicts the author´s literary experience.
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Khan, Sajjad Ali. "William Wordsworth, James Joyce and E.M. Forster : the romantic notion of education and modern fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45846/.
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This thesis examines modern fiction's debt to Romantic poetry for its key concepts in terms of educating an individual. The persistence of William Wordsworth's views on education in the modern fiction of James Joyce and E. M. Forster is evidence of The Prelude as a classic study of the growth of an individual. It is argued that Wordsworth does not envisage the institutional mode of education as a totally reliable means of educating an individual. He challenges the assumptions underlying the institutional mode of education. It is argued that the influence of Wordsworth's views on education is not limited to Victorian writers alone. Joyce and Forster take up a position similar to Wordsworth. Almost all the protagonists in the novels and short stories discussed in this thesis are educated at privileged institutions of education, and yet they rebel against the mode of education there. All the novels and short stories discussed, in a series of close readings, bear testimony to the fact that Wordsworth's The Prelude is fundamental to both Joyce and Forster in terms of the growth of an individual. Seen within the framework of the Romantic notion of education, this thesis contributes to an increase of the understanding of modern fiction. It is possible to study this theme in other modern writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Ford Madox Ford. The thesis retrieves a traditional reading of the writers under discussion by foregrounding the pattern of humanitarian values the Wordsworthian model of growth engenders. The recent studies in my field are referred to where necessary to indicate what they are missing in their study of Joyce and Forster.
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Li, Tianming. "A thematic study of Lu Xun's prose poetry collection Wild grass." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ34580.pdf.
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Carney, Guy. "Language theory in the poetry and prose of T. S. Eliot /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc289.pdf.
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Wu, Duncan. "A chronological annotated edition of Wordsworths poetry and prose : 1785-1790." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306738.
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Roe, Dinah. "Letter and spirit : the devotional poetry and prose of Christina Rossetti." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407195.
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Macdonald, Gillian E. "Eco-socialism in the early poetry and prose of William Morris." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2015. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/6ea6f115-0e6b-4585-bb90-cf32a6a1f220.
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William Morris was a highly significant political and cultural figure of the nineteenth century. He was a great artist-craftsman and was hugely influential in the rise of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, a movement which saw the revival of traditional crafts as a reaction to the utilitarianism of industrial mass production. Already an accomplished artist and writer, Morris became, in the 1880s, a significant figure in the development of the socialist movement. Often described as the first English Marxist, Morris ‘became’ a socialist when he joined the Democratic Federation in 1883. Morris was also deeply concerned about the destruction of the natural world caused by the increasing number of factories and he detested the stark contrast between the poverty of the factory workers and the wealth of the factory owners. He viewed the two, that is, social equality and care of the environment, as inextricably linked. Arguably, his political ideology would be best described today as eco-socialism. This thesis will demonstrate that, even as a young man, before he became politically active Morris was already thinking deeply about contemporary social and environmental problems, most of which were caused by what he viewed as the scourges of his era, capitalism and its concomitant industrialisation. This will be achieved by an examination of the cultural, social and literary influences on Morris from his childhood up to 1876. This analysis will focus on some of his literary inspirations that have not been explored to date. The aim of this thesis will be achieved , in addition, by a critical reading of Morris’s early poetry and prose from his contributions to the OCM in 1856 to the publication of Sigurd the Volsung in 1876.
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Lavis, Grahame J. "Pastoral modes in the poetry and prose fiction of W.G. Sebald." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12489/.
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In this thesis I extend the discussion of the works of W.G. Sebald beyond the more commonly discussed themes of melancholy, trauma, loss and memory. To this end I examine his long prose poem After Nature and his four books of prose fiction Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz to expose underlying pastoral modes and structural forms in these texts. In After Nature I make the case for this poem to be read as an anti-pastoral text which runs true to the elegiac form but exhibits a subtext of pastoral and anti-pastoral tension. The first published work of prose fiction, Vertigo, I argue demonstrates the pastoral structural device, integral to pastoral form, of the double-plot and in so doing, extend William Empson’s original thesis. In The Emigrants, I examine the parallels between Heimat and Pastoral by exposing the characters’ difficult relationships with displacement both physically and psychologically and argue for an anti-Heimat mode expressed largely in anti-pastoral imagery. The Rings of Saturn demonstrates the impossibility of utopia by constantly deferring a potential pastoral both spatially and temporally during the narrator’s “pilgrimage” across the Suffolk countryside. And finally in Austerlitz, we have a coalescence of pastoral modes structured as a discourse of retreat and return which, I argue, qualifies this work as a truly pastoral novel. In the final chapter I discuss the four short pieces of prose fiction in Campo Santo, which, although too brief to exhibit a pastoral form, demonstrate pastoral tropes commensurate with those discussed in the previous works.
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Malone, Jonathan. "Medicine, religion and the passions in early modern poetry and prose." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707825.
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This thesis investigates the use of medical terminology in the expression of religious selfhood in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Concentrating on the period between 1590 and 1640, I examine how the diffusion of medical learning and its key vocabularies into wider cultural contexts offered writers new ways in which to interpret the body’s functions in relation to religious doctrine. Focusing on the physiology of the humoral system and the physical and religious ‘passions’, I explore how an increased use of medical terminology can support or problematize the individual’s relationship with their own body and the religious doctrine to which they adhere. Through extensive use of primary medical and religious texts, I show that knowledge of medical terminology is employed with greater specificity than has previously been considered, evidencing a lively correspondence of ideas for writers working towards a systematic understanding of the religious significance of the body.
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O'Brien, James. "Bob Dylan's fugitive writings: selected poetry, prose, and playscript 1963-64." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12545.
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Please note: Editorial Studies works are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for this item. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link, and fill out the appropriate web form.The focus of this dissertation is Bob Dylan's other-than-song writings, particularly his fugitive writings- these being the poetry, prose, and playscript materials that have gone unpublished, or have been only fleetingly published, throughout his more than fifty-year career. Presented in it are two substantial instances and a number of supplementary examples that help to illuminate them. The selections comprise forty-seven sides of poetry and prose, and eighteen sides of playscript. Evidence suggests that most of these were typed and handwritten during the early to mid-1960s. Of the two instances, the largest selection of poetry and prose is found within a holding referred to as Margolis and Moss. A significant portion of it deals with a subject otherwise unaddressed directly in Dylan's authorially released efforts: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The poetry and prose also focuses upon Dylan's university days, and upon themes of injustice, politics, and love. Within it, there are numerous connections to his lyrics and other-than-song writings, to his biography, and to history. While the examination is primarily contextual, considerations of register and overtone also allow for the exploration of literary and other kinds of sources. Margolis and Moss additionally includes the most extensive representation of Dylan's work on a playscript presently identified among his other-than-song material. Similarly connected to his larger body of writings and to his biography, it is also possible to consider within the script the potential influence of playwrights such as Eugene O'Neill, Jack Gelber, and others. The second focused-upon selection, referred to as Siggins, provides links to Dylan's documented interest in Irish balladry, to the lines of his lyrics of the early 1960s, and also to examples of his later work. Additional other-than-song and fugitive writings by Dylan are included in a separate section of the dissertation, helping to further contextualize what precedes them and to extend the scope of the examination beyond that of Margolis and Moss and Siggins. Supplementary apparatus clarify several problematic unauthorized transcriptions that precede this effort. An index is provided to assist future research into this largely unattended-to aspect of Dylan's career.
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Cassel, Adrienne M. "Field Guide to the Heart." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307320455.
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Duggett, Thomas J. E. "Wordsworth's Gothic politics : a study of the poetry and prose, 1794-1814." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/361.
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Guy, Isabelle. ""This subtle knot". The Metaphysical Conseit in John Donne's Prose and Poetry." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/25039/25039.pdf.
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Gill, Laura Fox. "Peripheral vision : the Miltonic in Victorian painting, poetry, and prose, 1825-1901." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/72673/.
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This thesis explores the influence of John Milton on the edges of Victorian culture, addressing temporal, geographical, bodily, and sexual thresholds in Victorian poetry, painting, and prose. Where previous studies of Milton's Victorian influence have focused on the poetic legacy of Paradise Lost, this project identifies traces of Miltonic concepts across aesthetic borders, analysing an interdisciplinary cultural sample in order to state anew Milton's significance in the period between British Romanticism and early twentieth-century critical debates about the value of Paradise Lost. The project is divided into four chapters. The first explores apocalyptic images and texts from the 1820s-Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and the paintings of John Martin-in relation to Miltonic aetiology and eschatology. These texts offer a complex re-thinking of the relation between personal loss and universal catastrophe, which draws on and positions itself against prophecy and apocalypse in Paradise Lost. In the second chapter I address conceptual connections that cross boundaries of medium and nationality, identifying the presence of a Miltonic notion of powerful passivity in the writing and marginalia of Herman Melville and the paintings and anecdotal appendages of J. M. W. Turner. In the third chapter I consider Milton's importance for A. C. Swinburne's poetic presentation of peripheral sexualities, identifying in Milton's poetry a pervasive metaphysics of bodily 'melting' or 'cleaving' which is essential to Swinburne's poetic project. The final chapter analyses the presence of the Miltonic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, whose repeated readings of Milton contributed to both establishing his poetic vocabulary, and prompting a career-long engagement with Miltonic ideas. The thesis refocuses attention on peripheral elements of the work of these writers and artists to re-articulate Milton's importance for the Victorians, whilst bringing together models of influence which show the Victorian Milton to be at once liminal and galvanising.
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San, Martín Varela Pablo. "Myth and enlightenment : necessity, history, and agency in Shelley's poetry and prose." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25846.
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This thesis traces the changing conceptions and uses of myth in the poetry and prose of Percy Shelley. Its main argument is framed from a critical-theoretical perspective inspired by Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. From this methodological standpoint, the study of myth can be related to other aspects of Shelley’s work, like his understanding of history and the problem of necessity and agency. The body of the dissertation is divided into three main parts, each of which is constituted by a series of shorter chapters. The first part deals with the mutually constituting negation of myth by enlightenment, where simultaneously several different but related conceptions of myth are produced and the preliminary principles of enlightenment advanced. Shelley’s earlier conceptions and uses of myth are identified (personification, euhemerism, and allegory), and compared to those of his probable sources as well as of useful analogues, among whom David Hume, William Godwin, the Baron d’Holbach, and John Frank Newton are given special attention. These conceptions of myth are also situated in their intellectual contexts in the fields of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century mythography and theological debate. At the same time, the philosophical underpinnings of Shelley’s earlier writings (naturalism, scientism, and necessitarianism) are brought to light, and interpreted as having been strategically advanced in his critique of myth and religion. The main subject of the second part is the partial reification of enlightenment as a narrative of natural history. The interaction of theological debate and natural history of religion is explored in the light of literary form and pragmatic situation. Shelley’s political and social writings are described as a natural history of civil society based on political economy, and are situated within the historiographical tradition developed in the Scottish Enlightenment by authors like William Robertson, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Millar. These narratives contained embedded within themselves an early concept of sociological necessity, and developed in opposition not only to sacred history but also to the classical narratives of individual political agency. I argue that this historiographical framework became problematic for Shelley in the wake of the Manchester massacre, since it was at odds with his pacifist values and utopian expectations. The final part treats of the reincorporation of some elements originally suppressed in the critique of myth. Shelley’s later mythical dramas are read as an alternative representation of history to that of natural history, where a new conception of collective political agency was developed. Simultaneously, a new concept of truth as praxis is identified as emerging in some of Shelley’s political writings, whereby the truth value of myth and poetry could be reassessed as that of a guide for political action. Finally, I argue that Shelley’s debate with Thomas Love Peacock concerning the social function of poetry catalysed the process by which the attributes of myth were transferred to poetry, and the latter was set against science and other expressions of the calculating faculty.
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Guy, Isabelle. ""This subtle knot" : the metaphysical conceit in John Donne's prose and poetry." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29502.
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Pierce, Lori. "Repeated Readings in Poetry Versus Prose: Fluency and Enjoyment for Second-graders." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1352040851.
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Pierce, Lori A. Mrs. "Repeated Readings in Poetry Versus Prose: Fluency and Enjoyment for Second-graders." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1353027277.
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He, Dajiang. "Su Shi : pluralistic view of values and "making poetry out of prose" /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487948158628033.
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Sullam, S. "In the direction of prose: Virginia Woolf and the question of poetry." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/169426.
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“In the direction of prose: Virginia Woolf and the question of poetry”. Aim of the dissertation is to investigate the role of poetry and its forms in Virginia Woolf’s prose (novels and essays). The main argument is that Woolf’s novels are not – as they are usually considered – an example of lyrical prose, but rather, that they “cannibalize” poetry in a new kind of prose. The investigation is carried out on the one side on a literary-historical level, dealing mainly with Woolf’s critical essays centered on the prose-poetry relationship; on the other side on a literary-linguistic level, postulating a link between Woolf’s exploitation of style indirect libre and poetry. The last chapter is dedicated to the fictionalization of poetry, poetry reading and poets characters. Chapters: Introduction; 1- Virginia Woolf and poetry: framing the problem; 2- “A Fine Old Potentate”: Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Essays; 3- The Indirections of Poetry: style indirect libre and Virginia Woolf’s “lyrics of prose”; 4- Fictionalizing Poetry; Conclusions; Appendix of examples containing for; Figures; Bibliography.
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Cooper, Michael T. "WELCOME TO THE PLANET: FORT LIVING ROOM O ROTTING SUN." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/192.
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O Rotting Sun is a pair of long narrative poems that leap, spanning over an epic-length manuscript—175 pages of prose block, lyrical verse, and projective verse. Its chief poetic-operational modes are: inclusion, fragmentation, textual destructions, intentional omissions, intentional misspelling, large narrative leaps; all of which engage a poetics of doubt and multiplicity. O Rotting Sun is a jarring and jangly poem of resistance, intended if possible, for being read aloud and argued with: a provocation of intense meditation, reflection, and when successful, disintegration of anger & agonism—followed by a reintegration of the reader back into a community of change and hope. These poems are an invitation to that hero’s journey which is sometimes painful, sometimes beautiful, sometimes both. I wish to welcome my heroic, wonderful, deep reader into this new world of O Rotting Sun.
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Manning, Kimberly. "Authentic feminine rhetoric: A study of Leslie Silko's Laguna Indian prose and poetry." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1100.
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Nichols, Casey M. "Stellar Autopsy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395100975.
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Whyte, Christopher. "William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70) : a survey of his poetry and prose." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1991. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3982/.
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This thesis is a survey of the work in poetry and prose of William Livingston or Uilleam Mac Dhunl`eibhe, the Islay bard (1808-70). The version of his English surname without final `e' has been preferred because it is used in the definitive, 1882 edition of his poems and throughout the text (but not in the title) of the section of his own clan in the Vindication. The first chapter, `Biography and Background', gathers the available information on the poet's life, and attempts to set him in the context of the cultural, social and economic situation of Islay during the century preceding his birth. The second chapter, `The Intellectual Background', investigates Livingston's reading and his knowledge and use of historical and antiquarian texts. His familiarity with the traditionary version of the origins of the Scottish monarchy, elaborated by patriotic historians before the Union, is especially interesting. Chapter Three, `Polemicist and Historian', looks in detail at a work Livingston edited for publication, MacNichol's remarks on Dr Johnson's account of his journey through Gaelic Scotland, before turning to the poet's longest prose work, the Vindication of the Celtic Character. His shorter pamphlets and the incomplete History of Scotland are also examined. The fourth and fifth chapters explore Livingston's attitude to James Macpherson and to the Gaelic version of his Ossian, and attempt to decide to what extent and in what way he was influenced by the earlier poet. Explicit references to Macpherson in the poetry and prose are surveyed before the triangular relationship between Livingston the poet, Macpherson's work, and ballad material of various degrees of genuineness is discussed. The next two chapters offer close readings of the two major battle poems, `Na Lochalannaich an Ile' and `Bl`ar Shunadail', while Chapters Eight and Nine look at the shorter battle poems, ranging from Mons Graupius, in the first century of the Christian era, to the battle at Gruinard Bay on Islay, which took place just before the union of the crowns, and the battles of Alma and Balaclava in the Crimean War. Chapter Ten is devoted to Livingston's poetry of the Clearances. Its two main focuses are `Cuimhneachan Bhraid-Alba' and `Fios thun a' Bh`aird', and the thesis ends with a close reading of this, perhaps his most famous poem.
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Smith, Sarah Siobhan. "Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes 1922-1943 : poetry, prose and plays : a re-evaluation." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2000. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8689/.
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Schulze, Cornelia. "The "Battle of the sexes" in D. H. Lawrence's prose, poetry and paintings /." Heidelberg : C. Winter, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38899540h.
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Dennison, John. "Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry : a study of his prose poetics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3026.
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Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the inimical reality of life in the public domain. Drawing on manuscript as well as print sources, this thesis charts the development of this central theme, demonstrating the extent to which it threads throughout the whole of Heaney's thought, from his earliest conceptual formation to his late cultural poetics. Heaney's preoccupation with this idea largely originates in his undergraduate studies where he encounters Leavis and Arnold's accounts of poetry's adequacy: its ameliorative cultural and spiritual function. He also inherits, from Romantic and modernist influences, two differing accounts of poetry's relationship to reality. That conflicted inheritance engenders a crisis within Heaney's own early theorisation of poetry's adequacy to the violence of public life. An important period of clarification ensues, out of which emerge the dualisms of his later thought, and his emphasis on poetry's capacity to encompass, and yet remain separate from, ‘history'. Accompanied by habitual appropriation of Christian doctrine and language, these conceptual structures increasingly assume a redemptive pattern. By the mid-1990s, Heaney's humanist commitment to a ‘totally adequate' poetry has assumed a thoroughly Arnoldian character. The logical strain of his conceptual constructions—particularly the emphasis on poetry's autonomy from history—becomes acutely apparent, revealing just how appropriate the ambivalent ideal ‘adequacy' is. The subsequent expansion of Heaney's poetics into a general affirmation of the arts illuminates the fiduciary character of his trust in poetry while exposing the limits of that trust: Heaney's belief in poetry's adequacy constitutes a humanist substitute for—indeed, an ‘afterimage' of—Christian belief. This, finally, is the deep significance of the idea of adequacy to Heaney's thought: it allows us to identify precisely the Arnoldian origin, the late humanist character, and the limits of his troubled trust in poetry.
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Atha, Tammy Jolene. "Songs of Amy & Other Poems." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511979906462235.
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Smith, Yvonne J. "Brightness under our shoes the redress of the poetic imagination in the poetry and prose of David Malouf 1960-1982 /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5139.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.Title from title screen (viewed July 13, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes appendices. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
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Souza, Valdir Aparecido de [UNESP]. "Rondônia, uma memória em disputa." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103127.
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Esta pesquisa analisa a construção da memória por meio das representações contidas nos textos da narrativa histórica e da literatura poética do Estado de Rondônia. Para tal empreitada foram selecionadas as obras mais expressivas dos autores situados entre o período de vigência do antigo Território Federal do Guaporé (1943-56), depois Território Federal de Rondônia (1956-81) até a consolidação do atual Estado de Rondônia. A análise está focada no discurso destes autores e revela suas filiações e os seus pareceres. Tal memória fica aqui compreendida enquanto uma construção produzida por uma elite letrada, constituindo assim aspectos de representação enquanto projetos, de diferentes matizes, e que disputam entre si a hegemonia do discurso. Nesse sentido, as imagens das populações tradicionais aparecem delineadas a partir de conceitos estereotipados e marcados por um viés ideológico: a noção de vazio demográfico, as populações indígenas igualadas à natureza e o bandeirante como herói civilizador. Assim, as reflexões apresentadas neste trabalho, tiveram como base a eleição de um conjunto de narrativas em prosa e poesia, como também as imagens representativas dos símbolos de poder. Finalmente esta trajetória procura atravessar o interior dos enunciados, dialogando internamente com suas contradições e apontando para suas continuidades e recorrências.
This research analyses the construction of the State of Rondônia memory by means of the representations portrayed in the some texts of historical narrative and poetry of local writers. To reach that aim, the most representative works were selected from authors who wrote between the periods: 1943-56 (Guaporé Federal Territory), 1956-81 (Rondônia Federal Territory) up to the consolidation of the Rondônia State, after 1981. The analysis focuses these authors’ speeches and reveals their political affiliation and places from where they spoke their feelings - such memory is understood as product of highly educated elite which builds up projects of representation aspects, of different kinds, which fight each other the speech control. In this sense, the local images of the traditional populations appear designed from stereotyped misconceptions and ideologically biased: the notion of demographic emptiness, the rainforest populations leveled to nature and the “bandeirante” as a civilizing hero. Thus, the reflections presented in this work, had had as base the election of a set of narratives in prose and poetry, as well as the representative images of the symbols of being able. Finally, this trajectory seeks to go through the inside of enunciation, dialoguing internally with its contradictions and pointing with respect to its continuities and recurrences.
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Scanlan, Patricia Hope. "English surrealism in the 1930s, with special reference to the little magazines and small presses of the period." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368111.
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Bailey, Elaine. ""A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28949.
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'A Singular Person': Portraits of Subjectivity in the Poetry and Prose of Matilda Betham represents the first book-length study of Matilda Betham's literary output. A poet, biographer, and portrait artist, Betham is best remembered for her friendships with S. T. Coleridge, the Lambs, and Robert Southey. Referring to manuscript and printed material, this thesis uses feminist and New Historical critical methods to examine Betham's contribution to British Romanticism. It offers a biography of Betham and a historically contextualised analysis of her own construction of women's role in civic affairs. Betham's political affiliations, as well as the generic range of her poetic and scholarly representations of history, suggest her engagement with contemporary discussions surrounding subjectivity and self-representation. Her Biographical Dictionary participates in a construction of female identity that redefines the feminine while acknowledging the influence of preceding historians. The location and recovery of her autobiographical writings inform this examination of Betham's biographical research. The thesis argues that Betham's political views surrounding broad social representation also emerge in her exploration of the relationship between the lyrical voice and enfranchised selfhood. Betham combines her scholarly and poetic depictions of the individual enacting social change in The Lay of Marie , a historically informed metrical romance that compares to compositions by poets, both male and female, who similarly consider the demands of subjective interpretation of publicly available modes of historical discourse.
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Johnston, Jennifer C. "The poetry and prose of Archibald and James K. Baxter : Like father, like son?" Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7057.
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The literature of James K. Baxter features many thematic and stylistic parallels with that of his father, Archibald. The material used in this thesis, most of which is previously unpublished, will illustrate how this is apparent from the outset of James's literary career. Substantial use is also made of a personal interview conducted with James's brother, Terence.
Archie's unpublished work contains many expressions of his beliefs and principles, and attention to these is essential in order to achieve a better understanding, not only of his own literature, but also to appreciate how these beliefs came to be realised in James's verse from a very early period.
Archie's poetry, traditionally ignored by critical opinion, will be discussed in some detail, particularly in relation to theme and style. Much of his verse is Romantic, while the remainder is often an expression of pacifist or socialist beliefs. A significant amount of James's early verse reiterates these beliefs also, as the World War II period had a dramatic effect on him and coincided with the beginning of his literary career.
Archie's unpublished, factually based novel is important to this discussion as it is evidence that a tradition of ancestral mythology was well established by previous Baxter generations. Therefore James, rather than beginning this mythology himself, as has been thought, actually had a substantial body of myth and legend at his disposal should he choose to use it His posthumously published novel, Horse, is not only indebted to this legacy, but also illustrates his conscious desire to make himself a part of that same mythology. The extent and obvious nature of many literary parallels and similarities in work of Archie and James highlight the fact that, although much of Archie's material remains unpublished, it is a useful source for developing a greater understanding of James's literature.
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Dickey, David Nathaniel. "Correcting angels : the place of woman in the poetry and prose of John Milton." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288318.
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Harvey, H. M. "A study of the poetry and prose works of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381705.
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Al, Shammari Adhraa. "'History engraved on his shoulder' : a comparative study of the influence of British First World War poetry on post-1980 Iraqi war poetry." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5475.
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This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war poetry on the chosen body of Iraqi poetry. Through the comparison of sample poems the study presents, firstly, the direct influence of the British poetry of the Great War and its translation which formed the seeds of a more radical movement in Iraqi poetry during the 1980’s Iran/Iraq War and the period that followed it. The study also presents a comparison of the works of British and Iraqi civilian poets during and after the war time and their contribution in setting the ground for the younger generation to create more subversive poetic forms with special reference to women as influential characters and inspirations in their works. The moment of the 1980’s war marks the break with the clear direct influence of British war poetry and starts another phase of the comparison of a universal bond of similar reactions, conscious and unconscious expression reflecting the lives of the combatant group of men first and then of poets sharing a devastating war reality. The study reveals a remarkable, more radical change of poetic forms in Iraqi poetry between the time of the first seeds planted by the influence of translations from European poetry until the time of the Iran/Iraq war and the Gulf War in 1991 and the rise of the new nihilistic generation of the 1990s subverting war, politics and cultural life through their innovation in prose poem writing and its significance as an alternative space for their political and social subversion.
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Smith, Yvonne Joy. "Brightness Under Our Shoes: the Redress of the Poetic Imagination in the Poetry and Prose of David Malouf, 1960-1982." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5139.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)This study investigates the poetic foundation of David Malouf’s poetry and prose published from 1960 to 1982. Its purpose is to extend reading strategies so that the nature of his poetic and its formative influence are more fully appreciated. Its thesis is that Malouf explores and tests with increasing confidence and daring a poetic imagination that he believes must meet the demands of the times. Malouf’s work is placed in relation to Wallace Stevens’ belief that the poetic imagination should “push back against the pressure of reality”, a view discussed by Seamus Heaney in “The Redress of Poetry”. The surprise of the poetic as “unpredicted aesthetic value” (García-Berrio, 1989) is significant to his purposes and techniques, as it creates idea-images and feeling-values (Jung, 1921) that bring together apparently opposite ways of knowing the world. In seeking to represent the meeting of inner and outer perceptions, Malouf’s work shows the influence not only of Stevens but also Rilke and contemporary American poetry of “deep image”. The Australian context of Malouf’s work is considered in relation to Judith Wright’s essay “The Writer and the Crisis” and the poetry of Malouf’s contemporaries. Details of the manuscript development of his first four novels show Malouf’s steps towards a clearer representation of his holistic, post-romantic vision. His correspondence with the poet Judith Rodriguez provides useful insights into his purposes. Theories and research about brain functions, the nature of intelligence and learning provide an important international context in the 1960s and 1970s, given Malouf’s interest in how meaning forms from perception and experience. Jean Piaget’s view of intelligence and David Kolb’s theory of experiential learning (1984) offer frameworks for reading Malouf that have not yet been considered. The thesis offers a model of poetic learning that highlights the interplay of dialectically opposed ways of forming meaning and points to the importance for Malouf of holding diverse states of mind together through the poetic imaginary.