Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

The exploration of Christian myths as literary resources in the work of Spanish poets writing between 1920 and 1944 has to date been attempted by scholars focusing on the works of individual poets, notably Luis Cernuda and Lorca. In this doctoral thesis, I aim to cover one of the few gaps in the criticism of this period by pointing to the use of Christian myths by a range of poets working with a similar intention, and within a common heritage. The Christian myths that I shall examine here, are approached in two different ways: firstly structurally, analysing them as Biblical references and fragments of myths –using Strauss’ nomenclature ‘Gross Constituent Units’—which appear decontextualised in many of the works, with a non-religious intention, that is, as a metaphor for something else. Secondly, thematically, by suggesting that there are four mythic topics common to many of the poets writing at those times, which are: creation by means of the word; the loss of Paradise; suffering; and the announcement of a new world to come. Through these myths, the poets reflect an evolution in their lives and Poetics. A phenomenological perspective is adopted in order to explain the role of the myths in the poems and to trace common grounds through the myth among the poets and as continuators of a Western poetic tradition since Romanticism (Prieto de Paula, 2002:59).The story line that these four topics constitute is very similar to the Romantic plot that M. H. Abrams had defined for the British Romantics and that Philip Silver and Derek Harris had already applied to the poetry of Luis Cernuda. This mirroring of the myth in the British and German Romantics has led the thesis towards a contextualisation of the work of the poets of 1927 in the modern Western literary tradition. They are seen in this specific context of practice as inheritors of a line which goes from European Romanticism, through the Modernism, Symbolism, Pure Poetry, and Avant-garde to the group of 1927, and therefore they are expressing typically modern topics by means of religious images and myths. As well as those conventionally studied as belonging to the “Generación del veintisiete”, the thesis discusses Ernestina de Champourcin, Elisabeth Mulder, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ana María Martínez Sagi and Rosa Chacel, and proposes a new way of seeing the group of poets writing between the 20s and the Civil war and after this in the exile as a new expression of the same Modernity.

Ng Pui Lam. / Thesis submitted in: November 2005. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-96). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Secular-Divine Seduction in Donne's Seductive Poems --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Sexual Elements in Donne's Religious Poems --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- "Death: “The Worst Enemy""" --- p.61 / Conclusion --- p.91 / Bibliography --- p.94

The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 promoted regular and effective religious instruction for the parish laity. This was facilitated by the development of preaching and instructional texts – works known as pastoralia – which proliferated throughout Europe. This dissertation explores the phenomenon of vernacular pastoralia written in rhymed verse, works intended for oral performance to a lay audience. My focus is on the work of four writers of sacramental instruction in Anglo-Norman and Middle English. The earliest text considered is the Anglo-Norman Corset, written circa 1240-50 by Robert the Chaplain. The other three authors were more or less contemporary, all writing in the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth centuries. I examine three penitential poems by the Franciscan friar, Nicholas Bozon: Pus ke homme deit morir, Tretys de la Passion and Le char d’Orgueil, and then Handlyng Synne by the Gilbertine, Robert Mannyng. I finally consider the religious poems of William of Shoreham, a vicar in rural Kent, concentrating on De septem sacramentis and On the Trinity, Creation, the Existence of Evil, Devils, Adam and Eve. While all these writers confronted the challenges of providing religious instruction for the laity, their efforts also reflected a concern with social issues and an awareness of the literary nature of their verse enterprises. The texts frequently employed poetic or fictive devices found in popular literary genres and, whilst these illuminated and entertained listeners, they sometimes rendered the teaching obscure. The meeting of sacramental exposition, social discourse and literary invention resulted in complex textual interplay and tension, as well as in memorable formulations of faith. This dissertation considers the content of verse pastoralia in their historical context and aims to assess how the texts may have been received and understood by parishioners in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.

The Poetry of Religion and the Prose of Life: From Evangelicalism to Immanence in British Women's Writing, 1835-1925&" traces a tradition of religious women poets and women's poetic communities engaged in generic and theological exploration that I argue was intimately intertwined with their social activism. This project brings together recent debates about gender and secularization in sociology, social history, and anthropology of religion, contending that Victorian and early-twentieth-century women poets from a variety of religious affiliations offer an alternative path into modernity that embraces the public value of both poetry and religious discourse, thus questioning straightforward narratives of British secularization and poetic privatization during the nineteenth century. These writers, including contributors to The Christian Lady's Magazine, Grace Aguilar, Dora Greenwell, Alice Meynell, Eva Gore-Booth, and Evelyn Underhill, turned to social engagement and immanence, a theory of divinity within the world rather than above and apart from it, to bridge a widening gap between religious doctrine and poetic theory. Appropriating the growing interest in immanent theology within British Christianity allowed women to write about the small, the domestic, the human, and the everyday while exploring the divine presence in them, thus elevating and publicly revealing experiences traditionally allocated to women's private lives. Just as the women in this study questioned the distinction between the divine and the everyday, they also blurred the generic boundaries of poetry and theological prose. As lyric poetry was increasingly identified with private experience, they used literary experimentation across the genres of poetry and theological prose to engage public debates on a surprisingly large number of issues from factory reform, to mental disability, to urban poverty, to women's suffrage, to pacifism. This project includes four chapters, each of which examines a female poet or a poetic community of women connected through the publishing world. The first two chapters focus on tensions among commitments to poetry, religion, and social reform within Anglicanism. Trapped between the desire to encounter a transcendent God and the desire to celebrate earthly ephemera and improve earthly conditions, these poets demonstrate the tension from which a poetics of immanence arose. My third and fourth chapters follow the extension of immanence in late-nineteenth-century Catholic verse and early-twentieth-century mystical verse. These writers used a growing theological emphasis on immanence to justify poetry that relied on female experience, to suggest that the divine was at home in the constantly evolving natural and social worlds, and to illustrate God's equal proximity to the mundane and the marginalized, inspiring challenges to social and institutional hierarchies.

Thesis--Catholic University of America, 1933. / At head of title: The Catholic university of America. Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-186) and index.

Pagrindinė darbo problema, inspiravusi temos pasirinkimą - poetės, vertėjos ir dramaturgės Aldonos Elenos Puišytės biografija ir kūryba, kuri nebuvo plačiau aptarta ir analizuota literatūrologų. Analizuojant autorės gyvenimo faktus buvo bandoma nustatyti, kokie asmeniniai ir istoriniai įvykiai turėjo įtakos jos pasaulėjautos formavimuisi ir kaip tai atsispindi poetės kūryboje. Remiantis jos išleistomis poezijos knygomis, esė, interviu su poete ir pasitelkus lietuvių literatūros kritikų straipsnius bei recenzijas, buvo pabandyta atskleisti jos kūrybos savitumą, išskirti bei apžvelgti poezijos žanrus ir dominuojančias temas. Siekiant išsiaiškinti A.E. Puišytės kūrybos savitumą ir išskirtinumą, pasidomėta religinės poezijos samprata lietuvių literatūroje ir nustatyta, jog poetės lyrika turi daug bruožų, leidžiančių ją priskirti prie religinės poezijos kūrėjų. Darbe išanalizuotas autorės santykis su laikmečio situacija ir filosofine mintimi. Siekiant išsiaiškinti poetės vietą lietuvių literatūros kontekste, buvo naudojamasi literatūros kritikų pasisakymais . Šis monografinio pobūdžio darbas, galėtų būti naudingas studijuojant vaikų, religinę poeziją bei lietuvių poemą, o poetės biografijos aspektai įdomūs ne tik literatūrologams, bet ir kitų mokslo sričių specialistams. / The main problem of thesis, which was got one’s inspiration - the biography and oeuvre of a poetess, interpreter and dramatist Aldona Elena Puisyte, which hasn’t been discussed and analyzed enlarge. Analyzing facts of the author’s public life I was trying to settle the personal and historical events which made influence to the author’s world-view and took place in the oeuvre. According to the author’s poetry books, the essay, the interview with the poetess and invoking Lithuanian reviewers’ appreciations I was trying to establish the author’s singularity, to overlook and mark poetry forms and dominant themes. Pursuing to find out the author’s singularity and oneness I attended to conceptions of religious poetry in Lithuanian literature, and established that the author’s lyrics has got lots of religious poetry elements. The author’s relations with the spirit of the age and philosophy have been analyzed in the thesis. Pursuing to discover the author’s place in the context of today’s Lithuanian literature I was using Lithuanian reviewers’ appreciations and outgivings. This monograph thesis could be useful studying an infant and religious poetry, Lithuanian poem and the author’s biography dimensions are compulsive not only for literary experts, but for other too.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2006. / Supervisor: Grace Kehler. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-329).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2002. / Advisor: Sylvia Bowerbank. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 337-353). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2002. / Advisor: Sylvia Bowerbank. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 337-353). Also available via World Wide Web.