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This thesis examines the influence of Parthenius' doctrine of erotika pathemata on the Neoteric epyllion. His influence on Cinna has been readily acknowledged, but except for a few incidental and tentative references, little has been made of his role in determining important features of Neoteric poetry; in fact, many Leading scholars in the field fail even to mention him. A survey of the evolution of the epyllion in the Hellenistic world shows a radical transformation of the Callimachean type by Euphorion and Parthenius", in the late Alexandrian era. It is clearly the late Alexandrian epyllion that became popular with the Neoterics, as the relevant works of Catullus and, what can be conjectured about the nature of the lost Neatenc epyllia suggest. There is a marked bias towards tragic love-stories, sensational and bizarre, often metamorphic and with ample scope for emotional analysis and a subjective treatment. These features closely parallel the tenor of Parthenius', summary of 36 love-stories in the Erotika Pathemata, his only wholly extant work. While the collection was dedicated to Comelius Gallus well after most of the Neoteric epyllia were written, it is safe to assume that Parthenius preached his doctrine from the time of his arrival at Rome, as his widely acknowledged influence on Cinna's Zmyrna, perhaps the first Latin epyllion, seems to suggest. This thesis cannot pretend to defend Ross' extravagant claim that "without Parthenius' timely arrival there could have been no New Poetry"; but it can attempt to illuminate Parthenius' central role in establishing the nature of the Neoteric epyllion. This study has been undertaken, then, in the belief that Parthenius' influence on the Neoterics and on the creation of a new genre at Rome warrants closer scrutiny than has so far been attempted. Thus, it seeks to provide an alternate basis for the analysis of poems like 63 and 64, and heralds a possible shift from the emphasis on the autobiographical approach, which, though undoubtedly valid, has been belaboured in recent years to the point of excess. Abbreviated title: Erocika Pathemata and the Neoteric Epyllion. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Durban-Westville, 1996.

"March 2002". / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2005. / Bibliography: p. 324-344. / Introduction: framing the texts -- Subversive voices -- Formulating a theoretical position -- Performance: a complete process -- On second thoughts: rewriting contemporary culture -- Performing On second thoghts -- Dialogic voices: Amanda Stewart and # -- Performing # -- Voices of desire: Ania Walwicz and Soft -- Performing Soft -- Marginal voices: Hazel Smith and Poet without language -- Performing Poet without language -- Conclusions: interpreting subversive voices. / This study considers the text and performance of four Australian experimental poets, Chris Mann, Amanda Stewart, Ania Walwicz and Hazel Smith. My aim is to demonstrate how the genre of experimental poetry uses language and performance in such a way as to rewrite existing dominant discourses. The challenge as an analyst is to find ways into such reflexive texts that use intertextual resources of critical theory as their subject matter. The perspective employed here engages with the theories posited by the texts and allows for a theoretical position removed from the structure and theories informing them. -- The study is organised in two parts. First, I consider the subversiveness of the genre drawing on Raymond Williams' notion of the emergent, followed by a discussion of important predecessors in the field of experimentation. I then outline the particular method of enquiry and theoretical framework used here to analyse the meaning potential of such works. Systemic Functional Grammar and Multimodal Discourse theory are discussed and their particular application in this study. The second part of the thesis applies these theories to the experimental works. -- I begin explaining my theoretical position by considering the weakness of the commonly used theories of Kristeva's 'semiotic' to analyse such works. I found Systemic Functional Grammar, as developed by Michael Halliday and then Terry Threadgold, to be a useful tool for elucidating the meaning potential behind the fractured grammars in the texts. It also provided a way of conceptualising enunciative positions and the way intertextual resources might be rewritten. From within this linguistic framework I was able to discern subversive messages from the intertwined theories ranging across the texts from Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism and multiculturalism. -- The performance posed another challenge as the improvised spoken texts, uniquely performed by these artists, create a subversive listening position for the audience, which engages with both the words and sounds for their sonic and semantic qualities. I consider many ways of addressing the role and behaviour of the performer and listener as well as the performance as a creative process, emerging from the two. I engage the model put forward by Kress and Van Leeuwen for analysis of multimodal texts which provides a functional approach to meaning potential in the performance and its varying layers. Within this model, I found prosody most useful for its ability to notate intonation, key, disjuncture and stress, exposing the dialogic voices and the relationship between semantics and sound in the performances. This form of communication is equivalent to the indexical entailment of sound and music which forms the basis for communication between performers, and between performer and audience. The dialogic situation is enhanced by both prosody and indexical entailment providing possible meanings. I use some traditional musicological analysis but my aim is to move away from such formalistic descriptions to consider culturally inscribed sounds and their interpretation using a functional model. -- Throughout, the complexity of experimental performance is evident but the theoretical frame used here might be applied to other works of this nature as a means of further understanding the semiotic web in subversive texts. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / 344 p., music

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From Preface: This is not a history of the Boer War; nor is it an exclusively literary study of the poetry of that war. If the work that follows has to be defined generically at all, it may be called an exercise in cultural history. It attempts to assess the impact of a particular war on the literary culture, especially the poetry, of both the participants and the observers, whether in South Africa, in Britain and the rest of the English-speaking world, or in Europe. An assumption made throughout this study is that war poetry is not only verse written by men who are or have been under fire. Just as 'War poetry is not to be confused with political, polemical, or patriotic verse, although it can contain elements of all of these, so it is also the work of observers at home as much as that of soldiers at the front. It follows that I have not allowed myself the academic luxury of selecting, on the basis of literary merit only, a handful of outstanding war poems for rigorous analysis and discussion. "Doggerel can express the heart" wrote one of these late-Victorian soldierly versifiers, and I have roamed widely in the attempt to assemble the material which, I believe, records the full range of the impact that the Boer War made not only on Briton and Boer, but on the worId at large. A major thesis of this study is that the Boer War marked the clear emergence of the kind of war poetry which we have come to associate almost exclusively with the First World War. Poems in the style and spirit of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were written in profusion, but the work which serves as this study's masthead, Hardy's "Drummer Hodge," clearly has --like many of its contemporaries-- more in common with Owen's verse than with Tennyson's. The reasons for the appearance of such poetry are discussed in Chapter 1; the rest of the book provides the evidence of it.

This study attempts to offer a reading of Msimang's poetry from the perspective of deconstruction. In this course it is necessary to introduce and elaborate on certain deconstruction strategies. This is mainly effected in the second chapter, where consideration is given to diachronic and synchronic perspectives on deconstruction. However, not all the ramifications of the various radical insights offered by deconstructive approaches into the various fields are explored, only the significant texts by mainly French theorists and their American disciples are investigated. Secondly, this study seeks to show that the Zulu poems under consideration are highly amenable to a deconstruction reading. This thesis examines the various practices to absorb, transform, and integrate deconstruction and to make the theory applicable as a critical method within the African languages critical environment. In the third chapter, I am chiefly concerned with the claim that a text never has a single meaning, but is a crossroads of multiple ambiguous meanings. Explaining the historical context, the interdisciplinary scope, and the philosophical significance of Derrida' s project are explored in the fourth chapter. Language has no determinate centre nor any retrievable origin or truth. Belief in such is no more than nostalgia, says Derrida. What actually exists is a complex network of differences between signifiers, each in some sense carrying the traces of all others. With psychoanalysis in the fourth chapter, the focus is not on the differences between the deconstructive and psychoanalytic critics, but on their shared assumption that works ofliterature are in some sense indeterminate. These properties lead to the sixth chapter, which deals with intertextuality according to Derrida, Barthes and Bloom. The seventh and last chapter is the general conclusion in which main observations are summarized and important aspects highlighted. Finally, this thesis attempts to illustrate why the deconstructive procedure of analysing texts in such a way as to explicate their partial complicity with the theory, makes this deconstructive reading of Msimang' s poetry possible. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Orientador: Maria Betania Amoroso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T06:38:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Litron_FernandaFelix_M.pdf: 4421948 bytes, checksum: 0c55b10659620775bbe3ecc3b680cee3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho ocupa-se em examinar atentamente a atuação da crítica em seu papel de mediadora e qualificadora de um fenômeno cultural e poético conhecido como ¿poesia marginal¿ que, segundo a percepção de seus críticos, surge de maneira repentina durante a década de 70. De certa forma, tal poesia foi legitimada através da antologia intitulada 26 Poetas Hoje. Para realizar a análise, foram coletadas ¿ e são reproduzidas em anexo como parte integrante de nossa pesquisa ¿ as fontes primárias dessa discussão, isto é, os artigos, reportagens, resenhas e entrevistas publicadas durante a década de 70. Vale ressaltar a importância assumida pela imprensa nos conturbados anos da ditadura militar no Brasil. Muitas vezes a ela coube instigar ou manter acesas discussões e debates culturais em meio a um clima geral de sufocamento das manifestações, fossem elas políticas ou individuais. Nas décadas de 60 e 70, especificamente, tem-se uma modalidade jornalística bastante peculiar tratada como imprensa alternativa ou nanica. Assim, serão principalmente esses jornais e revistas que darão espaço para maiores debates e apresentações da poesia marginal e da cultura alternativa do período / Abstract: This dissertation aims to examine attentively the criticism performance in its mediation and qualification role of a poetic phenomenon known as ¿poesia marginal¿ (¿marginal poetry¿) which, according its critics¿ perception, ppeared in a sudden way during the 1970¿s. In certain way, this poetry has been legitimized through an anthology entitled 26 Poetas Hoje (26 Poets Today). For this analysis, they were collected ¿ and are presented here as a final result of our research ¿ the primary sources of this discussion, that is the articles, newspaper reports, summaries and interviews published during the 1970¿s, apart from our exam on such journalistic criticism. It¿s worth emphasizing that the journalistic gender stands out in a time of repression and censorship, once it assumes a questioning function about the Brazilian culture in a period politically disturbed. Then, specifically in the 1960¿s and 1970¿s, a peculiar journalistic "modality¿ emerges treated as alternative press or ¿nanica¿ (¿tiny press¿). Therefore, it is mainly this journalist modality that will give space for larger discussions and presentations of the marginal poetry and alternative culture of its period / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Eric Mitchell Sabinson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T13:33:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Franca_Vinicius_M.pdf: 830422 bytes, checksum: 184da193dee6256dc981c95090399492 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O objetivo desta dissertação foi estudar a obra do poeta Philip Levine (1928- ). A partir de uma caracterização da poesia de Levine, que é tido como um dos mais importantes poetas em atividade nos E.U.A., foi estabelecida uma antologia traduzida e comentada de seus poemas. Para tanto, em um primeiro momento, buscou-se apontar os rumos que a poesia norte-americana tomou a partir de 1945. Em seguida, com o auxílio da leitura da crítica especializada, foi elaborada uma discussão do lugar que a obra de Levine ocupa na poesia norte-americana do pós-guerra, com o intuito de caracterizar e estabelecer um corpus representativo de sua produção poética, a partir de seus três primeiros livros que foram publicados entre 1963 e 1974 / Abstract: The goal of this thesis was to study the work of poet Philip Levine (1928- ). From a characterization of Levine?s poetry, who is regarded as one of the most important poets in activity in the U.S., a translated and annotated anthology of his poems was established. The direction that American poetry has taken since 1945 is described. After presenting a reading of the relevant criticism, we discuss Levine's place in postwar American poetry in order to characterize and establish a representative corpus of his poetry from his first three books, which were published between 1963 and 1974 / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mentre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T08:52:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Casemiro_FabioMartinelli_M.pdf: 32259893 bytes, checksum: efa4dafb45e8a98cb760038477a2d867 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: A obra lírica de Teófilo Dias (1854 - 1889) é hoje composta de quatro livros: Lira dos Verdes Anos, Cantos Tropicais, Fanfarras e A Comédia dos Deuses. Sua poesia é considerada pela crítica, por vezes baudelairiana, por vezes parnasiana, ora simbolista. Este trabalho rompe com as "escolas literárias" e demais reduções teóricas e visa compreendê-la a partir das discussões estéticas e políticas próprias de sua historicidade. Em seu canto lírico, elaborado a partir da ressonância de várias tendências nacionais e estrangeiras, o culto ao belo-horrível e a mobilização política não se mostram isolados, mas como peças que harmonicamente se fundem no vitral da imagem. / Abstract: The works of Teófilo Dias (1854 - 1889) are composed by four books: Lira dos Verdes Anos, Cantos Tropicais, Fanfarras and A Comédia dos Deuses. His poetry is considered by the critics as baudelairian, or parnassian, or symbolist. This investigation breaks with these conceptions of "literary schools" and others theorical reductions, and intends to understand them in the aesthetics and political discussions within its historicity. In his poetry, which is elaborated by the resonance of multiples tendencies (nationals and foreigns), the aesthetic of the horror's beauty and the political mobilization were not composed isolatedly: it were harmonically merged to the sculpture of the image. / Mestrado / Literatura Geral e Comparada / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Eduardo Roberto Junqueira Guimarães / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T10:52:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_AdilsonVenturada_D.pdf: 684068 bytes, checksum: 5142c40b49f9e2d22bc5f4eba2201bda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo discutir o modo como a poesia é tratada nas Ciências da Linguagem, observando a obra de um conjunto de cientistas da linguagem do século XX, tomados em virtude do fato de que fazem parte dos autores que de algum modo tocaram nesta relação. Para esse estudo, vamos, em cada autor, apresentar uma síntese de seu pensamento, trazendo conceitos centrais, procurando o lugar em que aparece a poesia, levando em conta a distinção feita por Austin entre a linguagem ordinária, que é o uso comum, e a linguagem não-ordinária, que é o uso da linguagem em situações especiais. Além dessa discussão teórica, nos situaremos na perspectiva da Semântica do Acontecimento para analisar a palavra poesia em obras específicas de cada autor. Desse modo nos valeremos de dois procedimentos, a reescritura e a articulação, que estabelecem o Domínio Semântico de Determinação (DSD) que, segundo Guimarães (2004), apresenta o sentido das palavras, isso levando em consideração que o sentido das palavras se dá na sua relação enunciativa com outras dos textos em que funcionam. Assim, através dessas análises que iremos produzir, poderemos ter um quadro significativo do modo como a poesia é tratada nas Ciências da Linguagem / Abstract: This work aims discuss how poetry is treated in the Language Sciences, noting the work of language group of scientists of the twentieth century, taken by virtue of the fact that part of the authors who somehow played in this relationship. For this work, we will, in each author, to show a synthesis of his thinking, bringing central concepts, to looking for the place it appears in the poetry, considering Austin's distinction between ordinary language, which is the common use, and non-ordinary language, which is the use of language in special situations. Beyond that theoretical discussion, we will establish in the context of the Semantic Event to analyze the word poetry in specific works of each author. This way we will enforce two procedures, the rewriting and the articulation, establishing the Semantic Domain of Determination (DSD) that, second Guimarães (2004), presents the meaning of words, so considering that the meaning of words is given in relation to other expository texts in which they operate. So, through these analyzes that we will produce, we can have a significant part of the way poetry is treated in the Language Sciences / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística