Search for dissertations about: "poetic language"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words poetic language.

2. 1. Studies on Juvencus' Language and Style

   Author : Andreas Thor; Gerd Haverling; David Langslow; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Juvencus; biblical epic; poetic language; archaisms; Early Latin; Late Latin; prosaic language; biblical language; variation; Virgil; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the language and style used in the poem Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor by the fourth-century Christian poet Juvencus. The poem, a rendering of the biblical story of Jesus in dactylic poetry, initiated a literary genre, which is referred to as biblical epic. READ MORE

4. 2. Poetic Allusion : Some Aspects of the Role Played by Kokin Wakashuu as a Source of Poetic Allusion in Genji Monogatari

   Author : Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japanology; Japanologi;

   Abstract : This study concerns the role of Kokin Wakashuu poetry as a source of allusion (as HIKIUTA, "a poem alluded to") in the narrative, dialogue and letters of Genji Monogatari.The material has been divided into 188 contexts, with one poem alluded to in each context. There are 128 Kokin Wakashuu poems alluded to, some of them more than once. READ MORE

5. 3. An aesthetics of resistance : the open-ended practice of language writing

   Author : Åsa Arketeg; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Claes Entzenberg; Ming Qian Ma; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Humanities and religion; language writing; the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e journal; Bruce Andrews; Charles Bernstein; Lyn Hejinian; Ron Silliman; open-ended; language; writing; poetry; poetics; construction; theory; practice; separation; aesthetics; resistance; self-reflexion; avant-garde discourse; postmodernism; society; poststructuralism; critical theory; estetik;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relation between poetry and theory in the poetic practice of language writing. The topic is approached from the idea that language writing takes place in the tension of an open-ended state. READ MORE

6. 4. Trials of Device : Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language

   Author : Stefan Holander; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; poetic prosody; metrics; rhythmic theory; Literary ethics; metaphor; modernism; Wallace Stevens; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies Wallace Stevens? ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. READ MORE

7. 5. Towards a New Language : Christology in Early Modern Marathi, Konkani, and Hindustani

   Author : Pär Eliasson; Heinz Werner Wessler; Francis X. Clooney; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Hindu-Christian studies; comparative theology; interreligious; missiology; early modernity; translation studies; lexicography; Hindi; Hindustani; Konkani; Marathi; Jesuit; Capuchin; Thomas Stephens; Diogo Ribeiro; Ignazio Arcamone; Simão Gomes; François Marie de Tours; Joan Josua Ketelaar; Indology South Asian Studies; Indologi Sydasienkunskap;

   Abstract : This study examines the development of Christological discourses in Konkani, Marathi, and Hindustani in the 16th, 17th, and early 18th century. It explores a great deal of both Hindu and Christian sources, of which many are unedited and largely overlooked manuscripts. READ MORE