This dissertation, which takes the form of a creative project as is sanctioned by the Doctor of Arts Curricular Program, is an investigation of artsong literature, composers and musico-poetic structure. The work is a textbook designed for an undergraduate course in song literature and is accompanied by a performance-based interpretation workbook. The author's approach to the artsong is a threefold one: the artsong is considered as a unique performance idiom and is examined for the characteristics common to all; distinctive features are examined which identify specific sub-genre classifications within the body of artsong; specific artsongs are investigated from a performance aspect in order to develop an appropriate methodology for the interpretation of an individual song. This work includes information about historical analysis, performance practice, translation, phonetic transcription and the characteristics of versification unique to each language covered.The unique contribution of this work, however, is the workbook of sixty-five artsongs.In the workbook, the student is guided through a systematic approach to the interpretive process. The student is asked to examine the poem for type, mode of address and imagery and is asked to consider elements of rhyme, meter and poetic structure. The student is guided through an investigation of the characters both present and implied in the poetry; the student is asked to consider the structural elements of the musical setting in order to better discern the composer's response to the poem. Additionally, the student is asked to place the speaker-the person whose voice he or she is bringing to life-in time and location as well as construct a profile of the speaker's character. At the beginning of the workbook the entire process is demonstrated for the student; as the student progresses through the workbook, he is expected to perform more and more of the tasks until he can independently create a performance-based interpretation.The work contains copious musical examples as well as a source guide to instructional materials (scores, translations, recordings) and a brief glossary. / School of Music

'End' as 'goal' and 'limit' is explored in signs, symbols, metaphors, metonymies, and myths in the works of G.M. Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, before the study examines the aesthetics of modernist poetry which - through psychoanalysis, economy, and language philosophy - presents itself as one facet of the 'modernist project'. Modernist poetry struggles with its material, the lacking motivation of signs, the unstable connection of signifier and signified. Already in Hopkins this creates tensions between mimetic endeavour and construction. Appropriation and distancing as compensation strategies prefigure modernism's tendencies of simultaneous expansion and reduction. They produce impasses, evident in attempts to signify the self: absence, dissolution, and submission to myth, recurring limits in modernist poetry. Yeats's poems avoid mimetic tensions by focussing on opaque signifieds of symbols, intertextuality rather than empiricism. Yet the excluded 'outside' in the shape of history questions works and their creator. Again, silence, dissolution, or superhistoricism become refuges, leading to dissolution of symbols into metaphors and metonymies or their sublimation in myth. Eliot's poems seemingly return to realism. Yet their focussing on everyday life disguises the internalisation of reality in psychological landscapes. Difficulties of drawing borderlines between subject and object(s) result: objects become threatening and characters mutilated in reifications, processes expressed in shifts from metaphor to metonymy. Pound's stabilising strategies reify language itself. His personae try to legitimise poems by incorporating histories of others, but produce overcharge and disintegration. Imagism refines modernism's reductive move, but creates monadic closure. Attempts at impersonality and superhistoricism lead to the dominance of the suppressed. Vorticism's construction/destruction dialectic does not tolerate 'works'. Only the ideogrammatic method achieves the shift to signifiers only which enables poems to 'include' reality and history at the cost of blindness towards themselves. Psychoanalysis displays analogies in its holistic concepts and simultaneous internal delineations, its distrust of signs and incomplete and lacking constructs deriving from them. Modernist poetry's struggle with tradition in order to legitimise its existence mirrors the individual's subjection to the 'law of the father'. Individuation is achieved by mutilation; the return to imaginary wholeness preceding it, although Utopian goal, remains impossible; it appears in poems as self-destruction. The economy of modernist poems shows their fight against expenditure, creation of artificial value through symbols, eventually a reductio ad absurdum in poems producing only themselves in reification. Work and subject become borderlines when reality shifts into the text altogether and the signified is eliminated. Language philosophy reproduces the positions of modernist poems towards reality, admitting the separation of language and objects: Nietzsche in disqualifying truth, Wittgenstein uncovering language's impotence. Again the excluded appears as the mystical which Heidegger re-integrates by setting up language as reality's creator and receptacle of Being. The nominalist upside-down turn of his linguistic universe is analogous to modernism's myth of itself. Adorno criticises the closed nature of works as statements and advocates a 'true' modernism in the fragmentation of the work and openness towards heterogeneity. Like Baudrillard, he stresses the riddle of art which permits its orbital position, neither detached from societal conditioning nor completely subjected to it, thus capable of unveiling the relativity of master-narratives. The 'true' modernist poem displays its tensions and 'sacrifices itself in order to remind its reader of the damages of existence.

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This thesis applies to Archaic Greek literature the medievalist's concept of "women's songs," that is, love-poems given to a female persona and composed in a popular register. In the Greek context a distinct type can be recognised in poems of women's affections (not necessarily love-poems as such) composed in an ingenuous register and created for performance, choral or solo, within a women's thiasos. The poems studied are those of Sappho, along with the few surviving partheneia of Alcman and Pindar. The feminine is constructed, rather mechanically by Pindar, more subtly by the other two, from a combination of tender feeling, personal and natural beauty, and an artful artlessness. / It is not possible to reconstruct a paradigmatic thiasos which lies behind the women's songs, but certain characteristic features merge, especially the pervasiveness of homoerotic attachments and the combination of a personal, affective, with a social, religious function. In general, women's groups in ancient Greece must have served as a counterbalance to the prevailing male order. However, while some of the women's thiasoi provide a vehicle for the release of female aggression, the function of the present group is essentially harmonious and integrative.

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Orientador: Ulisses Infante / Banca: Claudicélio Rodrigues da Silva / Banca: Lúcia Granja / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo propor uma leitura para a obra O amor natural (1992), de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a partir da relação entre os temas do erótico, da morte e do sagrado. No prefácio ao livro, intitulado O erotismo nos deixa gauche?, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna nos exorta que, com a publicação destes poemas, temos a possibilidade de uma maior compreensão da poesia drummondiana de um modo geral. Sendo assim, buscamos em uma leitura panorâmica no conjunto da obra do poeta identificar como o tema do amor se configura. Nesse percurso, deparamo-nos com as inquietudes dessa poesia, já apontadas por Candido (1965), e compreendemos que no livro em análise elas se prolongam. Diante da inseparabilidade percebida entre os temários amoroso e erótico, que aparecem em toda sua produção poética, e que ganha força em sua produção final, culminando no livro que ora analisamos, buscamos nas confluências entre Georges Bataille (1987) e Octavio Paz (1995) uma definição para o erotismo. Para Bataille (1987), "o erotismo é a aprovação da vida até a morte" e está diretamente ligado a uma transgressão, no domínio da violação. Em Paz, encontramos que é uma atividade exclusivamente humana: é sexualidade socializada e transfigurada pela imaginação e a vontade dos homens. Sendo assim, aproximamos em nossa leitura os temas do Erotismo, da Morte e do Sagrado e percebemos que eles se tangenciam dentro do processo de criação das imagens eróticas drummondianas. Ao traçar essas ligações,... / Abstract: The present dissertation aims at proposing a reading of the work O amor natural (1992), by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, based on the relationship between the themes of eroticism, death and the sacred. In the preface of the book entitled O erotismo nos deixa gauche? Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna exhorts us that, with the publication of these poems, we have, in general, the possibility of a greater understanding of Drummond's poetry. Thus, we seek, in a panoramic reading in the whole of the poet's work, identify how the love theme is composed. In this way, we come across the restlessness of this poetry, as already stated by Candido (1965), and we understand that, in the book under analysis, this restlessnessis extended. In the face of the inseparability noticed between the love and the eroticism themes, which appears throughout Drummond's poetic work, and that gains strength in his final production, culminating in the book that we now analyse, we also seek on the confluences between Georges Bataille (1987) and Octavio Paz (1995) a definition for eroticism. According to Battaile (1987), "eroticism is the approval of life unto death" and it is directly connected to a transgression, in the domain of violation. In Paz, we find out that it is an uniquely human activity: it is sexuality socialized and transfigured by human desire and imagination. Therefore, in our reading, we bring closer the themes of Eroticism, of Death and of Sacred and we perceive that they are tangential to the process of creation of erotic Drummondian images. By tracing these connections, we realise that, through a language that appears agressively healthy and exalted in order to sing the act of love, Drummond is inserted, by means of his erotic poems, in a tradition that crosses all times reaching an ascese / Mestre

This study is premised on the assumption that foregrounding is the dominant feature of poetry. Such an assumption informs this study to the extent that it examines the role of foregrounding in isiXhosa modem poetry. Foregrounding, as an unusual or deviant usage of language, manifests itself as: metaphorical language, foregrounded sound, syntactic foregrounding and the variation of rhythmico-metrical structure. These are called foregrounding techniques. However, this study deals only with the first three foregrounding techniques. Qangule's poetry furnishes this study with examples that are used to illustrate that foregrounding plays a significant role in isiXhosa modem poetry. The foregrounding techniques depict, illustrate, dramatize and suggest the meaning of a poem. They also have the ability to do that in a collaborative manner. Such a claim is evidenced by the comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the poem Ukubonga (To praise). / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

From the preface: Herrick was a prolific poet, and a remarkably consistent one. Hesperides encompasses a lifelong collection of poems on themes as diverse as serious reflections on life's brevity and the playful examination of the minutely imagined world of the fairies, yet his vision of life remains coherent. My purpose in this study is to try to see ·Herrick's secular work in its unity and as a whole, without claiming to consider every aspect of his secular poetry. (I have not attempted, for example, to consider his classical sources.) As my interest lies mainly in his values and vision, my emphasis is on theme and tone, and the way they indicate his conception of life. For this reason, I only occasionally consider Herrick's poetic techniques, such as his versification and language, and there are no detailed analyses of individual poems which examine them from every angle. In addition, I am almost entirely concerned here with Hesperides , the secular poetry, and not with Herrick's religious verse, which is collected under the title of His Noble Numbers. (Although Herrick calls his book Hesperides: or The Works both Humane and Divine, the arrangement within is clearly a division into Hesperides, the secular poetry, and His Noble Numbers, the religious verse.)

In June 1917 W.B. Yeats wrote to his father : Much of your thought resembles mine . . but mine is part of a religious system more or less logically worked out, a system which will I hope interest you as a form of poetry. I find the setting it all in order has helped my verse, has given me a new framework and new patterns. (Wade 1954, 627) The new framework and new patterns that he claimed to have found in his system generated a new, and for Yeats, radically different sort of poetry. Before 1919 (The Wild Swans at Coole), the poetry had as its subject various traditional themes: the pity of love; the romance and heroism of Irish mythology; the threat of age, change and death. The poetry up to this point is, formally speaking, highly skillful, but locked into its own admissions of failure to touch or incorporate reality in any but a romantically defeatist way. However, the order which Yeats refers to in his letter, and the system he generated as a propaedeutic to this new order, once assimilated into the habit and texture of the poetry, generated new topics of its own which made those of the earlier work seem subjective, self- indulgent and intellectually uninformed. Yeats's poetry now changed drastically in focus and form, from subjective to objective poetry. Whereas the earlier poetry had opposed reality with romantic heroism or selfdestructive despondency, the poetry subsequent to his change of practice, incorporates a new vision of reality as the intrinsic architechtonics of poetry itself. Now the measure of human and aesthetic completion is no longer an inexplicable and inscrutable sadness, but an intelligent and informed detachment, an energy of mind that Yeats called "gaiety". My thesis explores this energy of mind and what it meant for Yeats and his poetry. My contention is that the idea of gaiety provides a way for Yeats to grant meaning to his life, a way for him to create himself. As the poetry is completed thanks to the new system, so is the poet. In order to see this, it is necessary to read the poems as a series of collections, or stories, that resonate back and forth with meaning and qualification and understanding. Yeats's system is his myth, and he writes his poetry in terms of and informed by that myth, shaping and re-shaping the experience of the created and fictional self until it has meaning in a way that the real self does not. The thesis explores this process of creation firstly in theoretical terms, using Lotman's ideas of Story and Myth, and looking at Yeats's intellectual and poetic inheritance. It goes on to examine some of the great poems in an attempt to define gaiety, and how Yeats achieves it in the poetry, and then to look at the early, pre-system poems to see how they differ. Finally, it takes the last of Yeats's lyric collections, Last Poems, and shows how gaiety works in the most mature poetry when the poems are read as narrative events within a story.

Orientador: Isabella Tardin Cardoso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T09:23:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_MarianaMusadePaulae_M.pdf: 1948062 bytes, checksum: 33f6385152e545e7296c107cea7da676 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O presente trabalho apresenta uma tradução anotada do livro V da obra Metamorfoses do poeta latino Públio Ovídio Naso, acompanhada de um estudo introdutório que versa basicamente sobre esses aspectos selecionados para nossa análise: a coesão e coerência das narrativas presentes no livro; o caráter épico, bem como as implicações desse caráter para a sua construção poética; o papel que desempenha o espaço, isto é, de que modo o cenário em que se desenrolam as histórias influencia a construção dessas narrativas; e a presença constante da metadiegesis, entendida como a reflexão que faz o vate, e as personagens a quem ele cede a voz, sobre a própria arte do fazer poético / Abstract: The current work presents an annotated translation of Ovid¿s Metamorphoses, book V, followed by an introductory study that deals with the following selected aspects: the cohesion and coherence between the narratives that constitute this book; the epic character, as well as the implications of this feature to the poetic construction of the poem; the role space plays, i.e., how the setting in which the stories take place affects the construction of these narratives; and finally, the constant presence of metadiegesis, understood as the poet¿s reflection ¿ as well as the reflection of the characters to whom he gives his voice ¿ on the art of poetry making itself / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística