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41	The Poet as Hero : A Study of the Clash Between the Hero and the First World War in British Trench Poetry, and Its Use in the Swedish School System Within the Subject of English. / Poeten som hjälte : En studie av konflikten mellan hjälten och det första världskriget i Brittisk skyttegravspoesi, och dess användning i det svenska skolsystemet inom ämnet Engelska. Olsson, Carl January 2018 (has links) This thesis studies the clash between the hero and the First World War in the works of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It explores the impact on their poetry and attitude towards the concept of the hero as it applied to them as people and poets. The study shows that over prolonged contact with the horrors of the First World War, it is evident in both literary sources and their poetry that both Sassoon and Owen changed their attitudes negatively towards both the idea of heroes and heroism, as well as the War as a just and glorious cause. However, the myth of the hero was still a core belief of their society, and in order to not be branded cowards and discarded along with their warnings, they had to become heroes in the eyes of their society, to openly attack the concept and the war it fueled. This thesis then studies how and why First World War poetry and literature should be utilized within the subject of English in the Swedish School System, as a means to provide a multicultural and critical education. The Great War The First World War First World War Poetry The hero in the First World War Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen Rupert Brooke Trench Poetry Poetry Heroes Heroism The hero in poetry The hero as weapon New Historicism Critical Literature Pedagogy. Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
42	Self-definition through poetry in the work of Gloria Fuertes and Pilar Paz Pasamar in the period 1950-1970 Ten Hacken, Hilde January 2007 (has links) Based on a comparative method of enquiry, this thesis analyses the process of self-definition expressed in the work of Gloria Fuertes (Madrid, 1917-1998) and Pilar Paz Pasamar (Jerez de la Frontera, 1933) as individual alternatives to the collective ethos and literary practices promoted within the patriarchal society of Franco’s Spain. Recognizing the poets’ cultural and socio-political context as determining factors in their experiences as women and poets, and therefore in their outlook and poetics, this context and how it is reflected in their poetry provides the starting point (Chapter 1). Both poets acknowledge that writing poetry can provide them with a metaphorical space of freedom that enables them to develop their identity and explore their preoccupations. Therefore, their thoughts about poetry provide an important theme that occurs in the poetry of both (Chapter 2). Closely related to this is the link they establish between poetic inspiration and the divine, which in the case of Pilar Paz Pasamar leads to the attempt to use the special qualities of poetic language to refer to a universal truth that she is aware of and which transcends the capabilities of language, while Gloria Fuertes regards poetry as a divine gift that can provide solace and is ultimately able to improve the world (Chapter 3). The fourth chapter focuses on specific elements of the two poets’ work that reveal the distinctive mechanisms of self-construction they develop. The section on Fuertes considers humour as a survival strategy that enables the poet to reach out to her readership and emphasize her focus on the here and now, while the discussion on Paz’s work looks at how the use of sea imagery allows her to convey abstract experiences based on introspection. Thus, it is argued that their poetry reflects the different strategies the two women develop – based on integration in the case of Fuertes and a more separate position in the case of Paz – to define themselves in relation to their world.
43	"Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War Tierney, John 09 June 2014 (has links) No description available. Asian Studies Asian Literature Literature History Korean War literature Korean War fiction Korean War poetry Truman and Korea the forgotten war bigotry and racism in Korean War Chiri mountain and ecocriticism Chiri mountain and hauntology
44	Trauer in der deutschen Nachkriegslyrik. Zur Emotionsgestaltung bei Günter Eich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz und Nelly Sachs / Sadness in German Post-war Poetry. The Expression of Emotions in the Poetic Works of Günter Eich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, and Nelly Sachs Fenner, Anna Magdalena 12 January 2015 (has links) Die Arbeit untersucht die Gestaltung von Trauer in den zwischen 1945 und etwa 1960 veröffentlichten Gedichten von Günter Eich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz und Nelly Sachs. Dazu wird ein differenziertes, systematisch erarbeitetes Analyseinstrumentarium vorgestellt und angewandt, das den vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Emotionsgestaltung in lyrischen Texten Rechnung trägt. Das methodische Vorgehen der Untersuchung ist insofern exemplarisch, als es hier zwar auf die Analyse von Trauerdarstellungen beschränkt wird, sich aber prinzipiell auch für die Untersuchung der literarischen Gestaltung anderer Emotionen anbietet. Gleichzeitig verspricht die eingehende Perspektive auf das Werk einzelner Autoren die Identifizierung auch solcher Mittel der Emotionsgestaltung, die eine weniger differenzierte, in die Breite gehende Analyse nicht hinreichend erfassen kann. Die Texte von Eich, Kaschnitz und Sachs werden zunächst in Einzelkapiteln detailliert untersucht. Den bereits bestehenden Forschungsarbeiten wird damit eine differenzierte und umfassende emotionsbezogene Perspektive auf formale und inhaltliche Aspekte des jeweiligen Werkes hinzugefügt. Am Schluss wird der Blick auf die deutsche Nachkriegslyrik insgesamt gerichtet und danach gefragt, inwiefern aus der Untersuchung des lyrischen Werkes der drei hier untersuchten Dichter weiterreichende allgemeine Einsichten im Hinblick auf die Gestaltung von Trauer in der deutschsprachigen Nachkriegslyrik gewonnen werden können. 400 800 Emotion Trauer Nachkriegslyrik Literatur nach 1945 Günter Eich Marie Luise Kaschnitz Nelly Sachs Emotionsgestaltung Textanalyse emotion sadness poetry German post-war poetry German literature after 1945 Günter Eich Marie Luise Kaschnitz Nelly Sachs expression of emotions text analysis Philologien (PPN621711713)
45	“The Step of Iron Feet”: Formal Movements in American World War II Poetry / Formal Movements in American World War II Poetry Edford, Rachel Lynn, 1979- 09 1900 (has links) x, 237 p. / We have too frequently approached American World War II poetry with assumptions about modern poetry based on readings of the influential British Great War poets, failing to distinguish between WWI and WWII and between the British and American contexts. During the Second World War, the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki obliterated the line many WWI poems reinforced between the soldier's battlefront and the civilian's homefront, authorizing for the first time both civilian and soldier perspectives. Conditions on the American homefront--widespread isolationist and anti-Semitic attitudes, America's late entry into the war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese internment, and the African American "Double V Campaign" to fight fascism overseas and racism at home--were just some of the volatile conditions poets in the US grappled with during WWII. In their poems, war shapes and threatens the identities of civilians and soldiers, women and men, African Americans and Jews, and verse form itself becomes a weapon against war's assault on identity. Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Richard Wilbur mobilize and challenge the authority of traditional poetic forms to defend the self against social, political, and physical assaults. The objective, free-verse testimony form of Reznikoff's long poem Holocaust (1975) registers his mistrust of lyric subjectivity and of the musical effects of traditional poetry. In Rukeyser's free-verse and traditional-verse forms, personal experiences and public history collide to create a unifying poetry during wartime. Brooks, like Rukeyser, posits poetry's ability to protect soldiers and civilians from war's threat to their identities. In Brooks's poems, however, only traditionally formal poems can withstand the war's destruction. Wilbur also employs conventional forms to control war's disorder. The individual speakers in his poems avoid becoming nameless war casualties by grounding themselves in military and literary history. Through a series of historically informed close readings, this dissertation illuminates a neglected period in the history of American poetry and argues that mid-century formalism challenges--not retreats from--twentieth-century atrocities. / Committee in charge: Karen Jackson Ford, Chairperson; John Gage, Member; Paul Peppis, Member; Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Outside Member American literature African American poetry Holocaust poetry Poetic form War poetry War literature Holocaust literature Language, literature and linguistics Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 Wilbur, Richard, 1921-
46	Wartime text and context: Cyril Connolly's Horizon Boykin, Dennis Joseph January 2007 (has links) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines the literary journal Horizon, its editor Cyril Connolly, and a selection of its editorial articles, poems, short stories and essays in the context of the Second World War, from 1939-45. Analyses of these works, their representation of wartime experience, and their artistic merit, serve as evidence of a shared and sustained literary engagement with the war. Collectively, they demonstrate Horizon’s role as one of the primary outlets for British literature and cultural discourse during the conflict. Previous assessments of the magazine as an apolitical organ with purely aesthetic concerns have led to enduring critical neglect and misappraisal. This thesis shows that, contrary to the commonly held view, Horizon consistently offered space for political debate, innovative criticism, and war-relevant content. It argues that Horizon’s wartime writing is indicative of the many varied types of literary response to a war that was all but incomprehensible for those who experienced it. These poems, stories and essays offer a distinctive and illuminating insight into the war and are proof that a viable literary culture thrived during the war years. This thesis also argues that Horizon, as a periodical, should be considered as a creative entity in and of itself, and is worthy of being studied in this light. The magazine’s constituent parts, interesting enough when considered separately, are shaped, informed, and granted new shades of meaning by their position alongside other works in Horizon. Chapters in the thesis cover editorials and editing, poetry, short stories, political essays, and critical essays respectively. Analyses of individual works are situated in the context of larger concerns in order to demonstrate the coherence of debate and discourse that characterised Horizon’s wartime run. In arguing that Horizon is a singular creative entity worthy of consideration in its own right, this thesis locates itself within the emerging field of periodical studies. Further, by arguing that the magazine demonstrates the value of Second World War literature, it articulates with other recent attempts to reassess the scope and quality of that literature. More specifically, this thesis offers the first focused and in-depth analysis of Horizon’s formative years. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. War in literature. World War 1939 1945 Art And The War Horizon (London, England)
47	Wartime text and context: Cyril Connolly's Horizon Boykin, Dennis Joseph January 2007 (has links) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines the literary journal Horizon, its editor Cyril Connolly, and a selection of its editorial articles, poems, short stories and essays in the context of the Second World War, from 1939-45. Analyses of these works, their representation of wartime experience, and their artistic merit, serve as evidence of a shared and sustained literary engagement with the war. Collectively, they demonstrate Horizon’s role as one of the primary outlets for British literature and cultural discourse during the conflict. Previous assessments of the magazine as an apolitical organ with purely aesthetic concerns have led to enduring critical neglect and misappraisal. This thesis shows that, contrary to the commonly held view, Horizon consistently offered space for political debate, innovative criticism, and war-relevant content. It argues that Horizon’s wartime writing is indicative of the many varied types of literary response to a war that was all but incomprehensible for those who experienced it. These poems, stories and essays offer a distinctive and illuminating insight into the war and are proof that a viable literary culture thrived during the war years. This thesis also argues that Horizon, as a periodical, should be considered as a creative entity in and of itself, and is worthy of being studied in this light. The magazine’s constituent parts, interesting enough when considered separately, are shaped, informed, and granted new shades of meaning by their position alongside other works in Horizon. Chapters in the thesis cover editorials and editing, poetry, short stories, political essays, and critical essays respectively. Analyses of individual works are situated in the context of larger concerns in order to demonstrate the coherence of debate and discourse that characterised Horizon’s wartime run. In arguing that Horizon is a singular creative entity worthy of consideration in its own right, this thesis locates itself within the emerging field of periodical studies. Further, by arguing that the magazine demonstrates the value of Second World War literature, it articulates with other recent attempts to reassess the scope and quality of that literature. More specifically, this thesis offers the first focused and in-depth analysis of Horizon’s formative years. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. War in literature. World War 1939 1945 Art And The War Horizon (London, England)
48	"Ich dichte in die wüste Zeit" - Ich-Konstruktionen in der Lyrik der deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller_innen Israels / "I am writing into deserted times" - Constructions of the I in the German poetry of the Israeli writers Netti Boleslav and Jenny Aloni Poppe, Judith 27 August 2015 (has links) Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht eine in der bisherigen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung unbeachtete Literatur – die deutschsprachige Literatur Israels. Exemplarisch wird dafür die Lyrik zweier Autor_innen, Jenny Aloni und Netti Boleslav, in den Blick genommen. Jenny Aloni und Netti Boleslav emigrierten Ende der 1930er Jahre aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland bzw. Prag nach Israel, fanden dort eine neue Heimat und verfassten bis zu ihrem Tod in den 1980er bzw. 1990er Jahren in deutscher Sprache Lyrik und Prosa. Leben und Werk der Autor_innen werden in der Arbeit auf der Basis von Dokumenten wie Tagebüchern, Briefen und unveröffentlichten Manuskripten rekonstruiert, die hier zum Teil erstmals aus dem Nachlass gezogen und in die literarische Öffentlichkeit eingebracht werden. Die hermeneutische Untersuchung der Gedichte in ihrem poetischen Eigenwert wird durch die Einbeziehung poststrukturalistisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Methoden ergänzt. Die Studie rückt die Ich-Konstruktionen in den Fokus – sowohl die der empirische Autor_innen als auch die der literarischen Ichs – und verfolgt damit die Fäden an unterschiedliche Zeiten und Orte zurück, in und an denen die Literatur ihre Spuren hinterlassen hat. Auf der Basis der Analysen wird die untersuchte Literatur, basierend auf Konzepten von Deleuze/Guattari und Kühne, schließlich als „Kleine Zwischenliteratur“ bezeichnet. Die Literatur Alonis und Boleslavs erscheint in Spannungsfeldern zwischen deutschem und israelischem Literaturbetrieb, mäandert zwischen Einheiten wie Böhmen, dem nationalsozialistischen und postnationalsozialistischen Deutschland, dem Staat Israel, der CSSR aber auch zwischen „jüdischer“ und „israelischer“ Literatur, deutscher Popkultur, Naturlyrik und zionistischer Geschichtsschreibung. Die Literaturgeschichte hat diese einmalige Positionierung der deutschsprachigen Literatur bisher nahezu unbeachtet gelassen. Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit wird dieser blinde Fleck geschlossen. Um dieser Literatur ihr Zuhause zu geben, so die abschließende Forderung der Arbeit, sind transdisziplinär und transnational Überlegungen anzustellen, wie die Literaturwissenschaft den Schnittmengen zwischen diesen zwei Literaturgeschichten institutionell und konzeptionell gerecht werden kann. 100 Deutschsprachige Literatur Israels Deutschsprachige Lyrik Israels Lyrik Israel Netti Boleslav Jenny Aloni Benno Fruchtmann Mirjam Michaelis Werner Bukofzer Sechstagekrieg Literatur Sechstagekrieg Lyrik Holocaust Shoah Eine kleine Literatur Lyrik nach der Shoah Literatur nach der Shoah Jerusalem Lyrik Jerusalem Literatur Alte Heimat Lyrik Israelische Lyrik Leerstellen deutsche Literaturgeschichte Max Brod Krieg 1948 Israel Literatur Krieg 1948 Israel Lyrik deutsche Literatur Israel Jeckes Israel Literatur Jekkes Israel Literatur Zwischenliteratur Theodizee Literatur Israeli literature German language Israeli poetry German poetry Israel Netti Boleslav Jenny Aloni Benno Fruchtmann Mirjam Michaelis Werner Bukofzer Six Day War literature Six Day War poetry Holocaust Shoah poetry after the Shoah literature after the Shoah Jerusalem poetry Jerusalem literature Israeli poetry blind spots German history of literature Max Brod war 1948 Israel literature war 1948 Israel poetry Jekkes literature Israel Jekkes poetry Israel Theodizee literature Philosophie (PPN619942320)
49	Peter Guthrie Tait : new insights into aspects of his life and work : and associated topics in the history of mathematics Lewis, Elizabeth Faith January 2015 (has links) In this thesis I present new insights into aspects of Peter Guthrie Tait's life and work, derived principally from largely-unexplored primary source material: Tait's scrapbook, the Tait–Maxwell school-book and Tait's pocket notebook. By way of associated historical insights, I also come to discuss the innovative and far-reaching mathematics of the elusive Frenchman, C.-V. Mourey. P. G. Tait (1831–1901) F.R.S.E., Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast (1854–1860) and of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1860–1901), was one of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Europe in the nineteenth century. His expertise encompassed the breadth of physical science and mathematics. However, since the nineteenth century he has been unfortunately overlooked—overshadowed, perhaps, by the brilliance of his personal friends, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) and William Thomson (1824–1907), later Lord Kelvin. Here I present the results of extensive research into the Tait family history. I explore the spiritual aspect of Tait's life in connection with The Unseen Universe (1875) which Tait co-authored with Balfour Stewart (1828–1887). I also reveal Tait's surprising involvement in statistics and give an account of his introduction to complex numbers, as a schoolboy at the Edinburgh Academy. A highlight of the thesis is a re-evaluation of C.-V. Mourey's 1828 work, La Vraie Théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires, which I consider from the perspective of algebraic reform. The thesis also contains: (i) a transcription of an unpublished paper by Hamilton on the fundamental theorem of algebra which was inspired by Mourey and (ii) new biographical information on Mourey. 510.92

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