No description available.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1983. / Vita. Bibliography: leaves [325]-342.

No description available.

This thesis explores John Donne's vision of the Apocalypse as revealed by his religious poetry and prose. Donne believed himself to be alive in the last age of the world; however, he rejected historicist interpretations of the Apocalypse. Instead, he located the conflict with sin and death within the individual soul. Donne was concerned to create an image of the sinful soul restored to unity with the divine through its own exertions and by God's grace, free from social and political constraints. The Apocalypse presented Donne with a paradigm of unity which he appropriated in order to represent the interconnexion of God and humankind, as well as to situate himself within a present unfolding of ultimate conformity. Knowledge of the role of the Apocalypse in Donne's self-presentation, provides an awareness of the extent to which Donne understood himself to be an active participant in the fulfilment of the Providential design.

This study examines two important influences that shape John Donne's "Holy Sonnets": The Ignatian meditative tradition and the devotional tradition of the psalm genre. It argues that their confluence in his sonnets gives rise to unique rhetorical structures and strategies that reflect the doctrinal uncertainties of his age.

No description available.

This thesis has been a study of the conceit as employed in the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne. It has suggested that the difficulty encountered in attempted classification of Donne's love-poetry may be partially resolved by a recognition of various voices or personae in the poems, several of which may be present within an individual poem. It has demonstrated the way in which Donne's employment of the conceit enabled him to express this variety of voices or personae simultaneously as they exchange positions of dominance and submissiveness within a poem.The thesis has illustrated its study of the conceit through the explication of four specific poems: "The Ecstasy," "A Valediction: forbidding mourning," "The Canonization," and "Love's Alchemy."

Il presente lavoro, dal titolo Ambigue presenze: donne e affari politici in Atene fra VI e V secolo, consta di nove capitoli, preceduti da un’introduzione e seguiti dalle conclusioni e si configura come un’analisi di figure femminili di rango, vissute ad Atene fra VI e V secolo a.C. . L’elaborato presenta una selezione di donne di famiglie illustri o legate, da vincoli di diverso tipo, a uomini celebri della politica ateniese del suddetto periodo e si prefigge lo scopo di indagare l’incidenza che alcune di queste figure femminili ebbero nella vita politica ateniese del loro tempo. La personalità e la funzione di queste donne, nel contesto in cui sono vissute, sono state ricostruite attraverso le tracce della loro esistenza e le scarse notizie sulle loro origini familiari, rintracciabili nella documentazione storiografica ed epigrafica, nella commedia, nelle opere di carattere didattico-filosofico e nei lessici più tardi. Questo lavoro ha permesso di concludere che nell’Atene classica sono esistite donne con rilevanza politica, anche se si è trattato per lo più di figure di supporto, cioè che hanno contribuito alle attività pubbliche attraverso i legami matrimoniali che sono stati, attraverso di loro, creati. Accanto a queste, sono state però individuate almeno due figure, Elpinice e Aspasia, che agirono direttamente sulla scena politica e i cui comportamenti anticonvenzionali, procurarono loro una pessima fama tra i contemporanei, ma contribuirono a renderle un interessante oggetto di studio per i moderni. / The present dissertation, entitled Ambigue presenze: donne e affari politici in Atene fra VI e V secolo consists in nine chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. It shows a selection of women coming from famous families or anyhow joined to well known men in the Athenian policy of those times. This essay aims to analyse female figures of high social standing, who lived in Athens between the VI and the V century B.C. and has the purpose to investigate their incidence in the Athenian political life in their times. These women’s personality and function, in the contest which they lived in, were rebuilt thanks to evidences of their existence and to the few information about their family origins, that we got from historiographic and epigraphic documentation, comedies, didactical-philosophical works and latter lexica. This work led to the conclusion that in classical Athens there was women with an importance in the policy, even if they often was supportive figures, who partecipated to public life only through nuptial ties they created. Besides them, there was two other figures, Aspasia and Elpinice, who directly operated in political life and whose unconventional conduct provided them with a bad reputation among contemporaries but make them an interesting subject for modern scholars’ studies.

Issued also as Thesis--Columbia University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also as Thesis--Columbia University. / Includes bibliographical references.