Law, Lok Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-vi). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / INTRODUCTION --- p.2 / Chapter Section One: --- The Discussion on Donne's Conceits and Donne's Passion in His Poetry --- p.3 / Chapter Section Two: --- Development of Cognitive Poetics --- p.6 / Chapter Section Three: --- Significance of Cognitive Poetics --- p.10 / Chapter Section Four: --- Significance of this Research Project --- p.13 / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY AND BLENDING THEORY --- p.15 / Chapter Section One: --- Theoretical Background of Metaphor --- p.15 / Chapter Part One: --- Metaphor as Deviation --- p.16 / Chapter Part Two: --- Metaphor as Ornament --- p.17 / Chapter Part Three: --- Metaphor as a Way of Understanding --- p.19 / Chapter Part Four: --- Metaphor and Conceit --- p.21 / Chapter Section Two: --- Conceptual Metaphor Theory --- p.21 / Chapter Part One: --- Conceptual Metaphor Theory --- p.21 / Chapter Part Two: --- Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Emotions --- p.25 / Chapter Section Three: --- Blending Theory --- p.26 / Chapter Part One: --- From Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Blending Theory --- p.26 / Chapter Part Two: --- Gregor as a Twitter User --- p.28 / Chapter Part Three: --- Blending and Conceit --- p.33 / Conclusion --- p.34 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- FUNCTIONS OF DONNE'S CONCEITS --- p.35 / Chapter Section One: --- Conceit in Perspectives --- p.36 / Chapter Part One: --- Definition and Classification of a Conceit --- p.36 / Chapter Part Two: --- The Mechanism of Combining Two Heterogeneous Images --- p.38 / Chapter Part Three: --- Functions of a Conceit in the Argumentation of a Poem --- p.41 / Chapter Part Four: --- Comparison Between the Rhetorical Approach and the Cognitive Approach --- p.43 / Chapter Section Two: --- Functions of Donne's Conceits --- p.47 / Chapter Part One: --- Analysis of 'Lovers' Infiniteness' --- p.47 / Chapter Part Two: --- Condensed Conceits --- p.57 / Chapter Part Three: --- Expanded Conceits --- p.64 / Conclusion --- p.67 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- THE PASSION IN DONNE'S CONCEITS --- p.68 / Chapter Section One: --- The Emotional Aspect of Donne's Poems and the Cognitive Perspective --- p.69 / Chapter Section Two: --- Conceptual Theory of Emotion in Detail --- p.75 / Chapter Part One: --- Kovecses's Emotion Concepts and Cognitive Model of Emotions --- p.75 / Chapter Part Two: --- "Intensity, Passivity and Force in Romantic Love" --- p.77 / Chapter Part Three: --- Application of Kovecses's theory to Donne's poems --- p.79 / Chapter Section Three: --- Donne's Expressions of Emotions --- p.81 / Chapter Part One: --- Passion and Intensity of Love when Love is Fierce --- p.81 / Chapter Part Two: --- Frustration and Attempts to Control One's Emotions --- p.85 / Chapter Part Three: --- Secured and Satisfied Love --- p.89 / Chapter Part Four: --- Conceits that Fall Outside the Stages of Emotions --- p.94 / Conclusion --- p.97 / CONCLUSION --- p.99 / Other Issues in Donne's Poetry Concerning Emotions --- p.100

A finales del siglo XVI, el género épico irrumpe con fuerza en Europa, con una serie de autores italianos (Tasso, Boyardo, etc.) que se convierten en referentes. En España, el género fue recogido por autores como Alonso de Ercilla, Pedro de Oña o el mismo Lope de Vega. Con La Dragontea, Lope de Vega intenta cultivar la épica culta, y alejarse así de la imagen de autor popular. El poema narra los hechos sucedidos durante la última expedición del corsario Francis Drake a América, con su derrota y muerte. En este estudio, analizaremos el poema en su contexto literario e histórico, situándolo entre la producción épica española y la de Lope, así como su temàtica nacionalista y colonial. El resultado es una aproximación a un poema que, más que ningún otro, pone de manifiesto el evidente interés de Lope en el género culto. / At the end of sixteenth century, the epic genre invades Europa, with a row of Italian authors (Tasso, Boyardo, etc.) who become point of referente. In Spain, the genre was taken in by authors like Alonso de Ercilla, Pedro de Oña or even Lope de Vega. With La Dragontea, Lope de Vega tries to practice the cultured genre, leaving his image as a popular author. The poem explains the facts during the last expediction of corsaire Francis Drake to America, with his final defeat and dead. In this study, we will analize the poem in its literary and historical context, setting it into the Spanish epic production and Lope’s works, and also analize its nationalist and colonial theme. The result is an aproximation to a poem that, more than any other, highlights Lope’s evident interest on the cultured genre.

Texte remanié de: Tesi di laurea--Torino--Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, 1997. / La page de titre porte : "con il patrocinio del comune di Dronero" Contient en annexe des textes en latin. Bibliogr. p. 169-178.

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This thesis traces the development of Augustine's paradigm of the two cities (the City of God and the earthly city) in the cultural poetics of the English Renaissance. Although scholars have studied the impact of Augustine's model on theology, historical consciousness, and political theories in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, little attention has been paid to the genealogy of the more specifically "literary" aspects of the idea of the two cities. My line of inquiry is the relationship between Augustine's model of the two cities and the idea of drama. More specifically, this project explores the ways in which the idea o f the two cities spoke to various communities—of readers, of worshippers, and ultimately, of playgoers. Augustine's view of drama is divided; on the one hand, he speaks at length about the evil influence of Roman spectacles, but on the other hand, he acknowledges that the world itself is a theatre for God's cosmic drama. However, this employment of drama is limited in Augustine's writing, because his greater commitment is to the idea of Scripture. This interplay between drama and Scripture, I suggest, is an integral part of the two-cities model that is related to his theology of history. The tension between the idea of drama and the idea o f the book is evident in English Reformation appropriations of Augustine's model, such as those of John Bale and John Foxe, who changed the terminology to "the two churches." The second section of my thesis shows how these Reformers contained their own "dramatic" adaptations of the two cities within an even narrower theatre than Augustine's—a theatre constituted and contained by the Word. Shifting the focus to secular drama, the final section concerns Shakespeare's use of some facets of the two-cities model in his Jacobean plays, and examines the effects of removing this construct from its religious context. The result, I argue, is a theatre that celebrates its own aesthetic power and flaunts its sheer physicality, resisting the presumed stability of the written word.

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Tesis para optar al grado de Doctora en Literatura, mención Literatura Chilena e Hispanoamericana / No autorizada su publicación a texto completo, según petición de su autor. / En términos generales, esta investigación propone, en primera instancia, interpretar y revelar analíticamente los aspectos culturales, literarios y sociales que rodearon la publicación de la primera edición del Quijote publicada en Chile, además de entregar los datos materiales y prácticos de ésta; y, en segunda instancia, se pretende analizar la recepción e interpretación del Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes en Chile entre los años 1863 y 1947. Se hará especial hincapié en el análisis de los textos críticos que tienen a la obra cervantina como el motivo principal de análisis. Sin embargo, no se dejará de mencionar algunos textos, escritos, poemas y publicaciones varias que abordan tanto al escritor, Cervantes, y al personaje, don Quijote.

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ix, 268 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / "Words in the World" details the ways that the place of rhetoric and literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changes in response to the transition from natural philosophy to Cartesian mechanism. In so doing, it also offers a constructive challenge to today's environmental literary criticism, challenging environmental literary critics' preoccupation with themes of nature and, by extension, with representational language. Reading authors from Thomas More to Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson through changes in physics, cartography, botany, and zoology, "Words in the World" argues that literature occupies an increasingly separate place from the real world. "Place" in this context refers to spatiotemporal dimensions, taxonomic affiliations, and the relationships between literature and the physical world. George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (1589), for instance, limits the way that rhetoric is part of the world to the ways that it can be numbered (meter, rhyme scheme, and so forth); metaphor and other tropes, however, are duplicitous. In contrast, for an earlier era of natural philosophers, tropes were the grammar of the universe. "Words in the World" culminates with Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621/1651), in which the product of literature's split from the physical world is literary melancholy. Turning to today's environmental literary criticism, the dissertation thus historicizes ecocriticism's nostalgic melancholy for the extratextual physical world. Indeed, Early Modern authors' inquiries into the place of literature and the relationships between that place and the physical world in terms of literary forms and structures, suggests the importance of ecoformalism to Early Modern scholarship. In particular, this dissertation argues that Early Modern authors treat literary structures as types of performative language. This dissertation revises the standard histories of Early Modern developments in rhetoric and of the literary text, and it provides new insight into the materiality of literary form. / Committee in charge: Lisa Freinkel, Chairperson, English; William Rossi, Member, English; George Rowe, Member, English; Ted Toadvine, Outside Member, Philosophy