Search for dissertations about: "Poems"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the word Poems.

  2. 11. Stroke Darkly the Strings : On Paul Celan and Music

    Author : Axel Englund; Anders Olsson; Jacob Derkert; Martin Zenck; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paul Celan; music; poetry; intermediality; metaphor; modernism; Jörg Birkenkötter; Harrison Birtwistle; György Kurtág; Erhard Karkoschka; Tilo Medek; Aribert Reimann; Wolfgang Rihm; Peter Ruzicka; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to disclose the oeuvre of the German-Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan as a site of problematic yet productive encounters between poetry and music. It addresses, on the one hand, music as a thematic and structural element in Celan’s poetry and, on the other hand, contemporary musical works interacting with this poetry. READ MORE

  4. 12. Belfast Textiles : On Ciaran Carson’s Poetics

    Author : Jenny Malmqvist; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Jan Anward; Ann-Sofie Persson; Charles Armstrong; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Irish poetry; Ciaran Carson; poetics; intertextuality; translation; Irländsk poesi; Ciaran Carson; poetik; intertextualitet; översättning;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of the formation and development of Ciaran Carson’s poetics from his debut in the 1970s up to and including his fourth principal collection of poems, First Language, published in 1993. Examining Carson’s recourse to different kinds of rewriting, made manifest as intertextuality and translation, it aims to account for the thematic formulation and formal realization of this poetics. READ MORE

  5. 13. Martial, Book IX : A commentary. Vol. 1, Vol. 2

    Author : Christer Henriksén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical philology - general; Martial; epigram; Domitian; Silver Latin; panegyric; Statius; Ovid; Greek Anthology; Klassiska språk - allmänt; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of a commentary on Book 9 of the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis (ca. 40-104 AD). READ MORE

  6. 14. Empowering Strategies at Home in the Works of Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove

    Author : Maria Proitsaki; Steven Hartman; Alan Shima; Anders Olsson; Clara Juncker; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; American Literature; African American; Poetry; Black feminism; Women; Girls; Strategy; Empowerment; Home; Domestic; Knowledge; Nikki Giovanni; Rita Dove;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the presence of Black women characters in domestic contexts in the early poetry of African American poets Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove and examines the strategies these women employ, individually and in close relationships, in order to empower themselves and sustain those around them. It provides a joint exploration of the work of two major contemporary poets from a literary and interdisciplinary perspective, mapping instances of the poetic expression of Black feminist politics. READ MORE

  7. 15. De Inconexis Continuum - A Study of the Late Antique Latin Wedding Centos

    Author : Sara Ehrling; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cento; cento poetry; Cento Nuptialis; Epithalamium Fridi; wedding poetry; epithalamia; late antique Latin poetry; Ausonius; Luxorius; Open works;

    Abstract : The kind of literature that is called cento is studied in this thesis with a special focus on two late antique Latin wedding poems, Cento Nuptialis written by Ausonius in the late 4th century A.D., and Epithalamium Fridi probably written in Carthage some hundred years later. READ MORE