Search for dissertations about: "Poems"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the word Poems.
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6. Entangled Figures : Five Poems from Temy i variacii by Boris Pasternak
Abstract : This study is centred around different aspects of Boris Pasternak's early poetry that jeopardize semantic coherency and interpretation of his poems. Special attention is paid to metaphors, metonymies, lexical multiplicity (that is a multiplicity of relevant meanings codified in a dictionary) and obscure syntactic connections and how these aspects are combined in his poems. READ MORE
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7. The Politics of Tradition : Examining the History of the Old English Poems The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer
Abstract : Old English literary studies is a fascinating field of research which spans many various approaches including philology and linguistics as well as literary and cultural theories. The field is characterised by a certain conservatism, what in this thesis is referred to as tradition. READ MORE
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8. Scripta Imagine : Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae
Abstract : Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. READ MORE
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9. Form and philosophy in Sándor Weöres' poetry
Abstract : This dissertation, by presenting comprehensive analyses of six poems by the Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres, investigates the poetical forms and the poetical philosophies in these texts. The poems represent specific philosophic spheres of Weöres' poetry. READ MORE
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10. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina
Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE