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131	A Lesson in Rhetoric: Finding God Through Language in “Batter my heart” Giullian, Marc Daniel 01 December 2014 (has links) (PDF) A reexamination of John Donne's Holy Sonnet “Batter my heart,” especially one looking at the sonnet's relationship to Early Modern rhetoric, is long overdue. In this paper, I hope to show that a focus on Donne's relationship to Early Modern rhetoric yields several useful new insights. I argue specifically that Donne was probably exposed to Non-Ramist rhetorical methods and theory at many points in his education, from his childhood to his college years to his years at the Inns of Court. Furthermore, Non-Ramist rhetoric has moral implications, suggesting that aspects of an author's feelings, character, and desires can be analyzed by looking at the writer's rhetorical choices in relation to a specific audience in a specific situation. After discussing Donne's rhetorical education, I will look at how the rhetorical decisions of the poetic speaker in Donne's “Batter my heart” reveal his opinions of God and develop his attitudes toward God over the course of the poem. Indeed, the poetic speaker uses rhetoric that exerts power back on him, causing him to change: whereas at the beginning of the poem the poetic speaker thinks he controls his relationship with God, at the end he sees himself as God's humble subject. Ultimately, the poetic speaker's feelings of utter separation from God at the end of the poem actually yield a sense that he has found God and has gained a sense of awe surrounding the Divine. John Donne rhetoric violence doubt "Batter my heart" Holy Sonnets Desiderius Erasmus Peter Ramus Donne's education rhetorical education catachresis prayer English Language and Literature
132	Form and Meaning in Benjamin Britten's Sonnet Cycles Stroeher, Vicki Pierce 08 1900 (has links) This study examines the relationship between sonnet form and musical form in Benjamin Britten's sonnet cycles with a view toward identifying the musico-poetic form how the musical form interprets the poetry. Several issues come to the fore: 1) articulation of the large-scale divisions of the poetic form in the music; 2) potential of the musical setting to make connections between lines of the text ; 3) potential of the musical setting to follow or imitate the thought processes of the poem; and 4) placement of the departure and return. Benjamin Britten musical analysis sonnet cycles musico-poetic form
133	(En)countering Death: Defenses against Mortality in Five Late Medieval/Early Modern Texts Horn, Matthew Clive 19 April 2010 (has links) No description available. English literature Book of the Duchess Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation Pericles Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Chaucer Shakespeare Thomas More Donne Bunyan defenses against mortality
134	Dialogues with the Past: Musical Settings of John Donne's Poetry Cowell, Emma Mildred 15 June 2012 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature European History Literature Music Performing Arts Religious History Spirituality John Donne Pelham Humfrey Benjamin Britten English song metaphysical poetry
135	Tradition. Passio. Poesis. Retreat: Comments around “The Gallery” Lipson, Daniel B 01 January 2013 (has links) Although Andrew Marvell wrote and published relatively little, his poetry collects from the full range of “schools” and idiosyncratic styles present in the seventeenth century: echoes of Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, Herrick, Lovelace, and Jonson, among others, permeate throughout his work. Although much of his imagery seems novel, if not strange, it is clear that Marvell has a deep engagement with several important long-running traditions. His work is conversation with Ovid, Horace, and Theocritus as much as it responds directly to the poets whose lives overlapped with his own. In his engagement with such varied sources, Marvell demonstrates an astounding degree of poetic flexibility. He is a master of imitating voice and style. Literature Renaissance Andrew Marvell Erich Auerbach Passio Poesis Retreat English Love Love Poetry Talion Economy Loss Accounting Loss-Aversion Anne Carson John Donne Lyric Katherine Philips Pastoral The Garden The Gallery Definition of Love Marvell Donne Sonnet Psychomachia Christianity European Languages and Societies Literature in English, British Isles Other Classics Other English Language and Literature
136	Tradition. Passio. Poesis. Retreat: Comments around “The Gallery” Lipson, Daniel B 01 January 2013 (has links) Although Andrew Marvell wrote and published relatively little, his poetry collects from the full range of “schools” and idiosyncratic styles present in the seventeenth century: echoes of Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, Herrick, Lovelace, and Jonson, among others, permeate throughout his work. Although much of his imagery seems novel, if not strange, it is clear that Marvell has a deep engagement with several important long-running traditions. His work is conversation with Ovid, Horace, and Theocritus as much as it responds directly to the poets whose lives overlapped with his own. In his engagement with such varied sources, Marvell demonstrates an astounding degree of poetic flexibility. He is a master of imitating voice and style. Literature Renaissance Andrew Marvell Erich Auerbach Passio Poesis Retreat English Love Love Poetry Talion Economy Loss Accounting Loss-Aversion Anne Carson John Donne Lyric Katherine Philips Pastoral The Garden The Gallery Definition of Love Marvell Donne Sonnet Psychomachia Christianity European Languages and Societies Literature in English, British Isles Other Classics Other English Language and Literature
137	"Rise to thought" : Augustinian ethics in Donne, Shakespeare, and Milton Harris, Mitchell Munroe, 1977- 21 September 2012 (has links) This dissertation considers the development of an ethics stemming from the Augustinian revival of early modern England, and the subsequent effect of this ethics on the literary culture of the period. The Preface claims that religious and textual communities operate according to a “cultural mobility” that eludes conventional neo-historicist approaches to literary culture, and Paul Ricoeur’s aphorism, “the symbol gives rise to thought,” serves as a model for thinking through this mobility. Augustinian ethics is a cultural phenomenon in the period, because people are thinking about Augustine, giving new life to his works through their own expressions of thought. After exploring the ways in which the Augustinian revival was brought about during the early modern period in the Introduction, one such expression of thought, John Donne’s relationship with early modern print culture, is examined in Chapter One. Following the theoretical outline of Augustine’s Christianization of Ciceronian rhetoric in his De Doctrina Christiana, it is suggested that though Donne’s aversion to the print publication of his poetry may have begun as a result of his “gentlemanly disdain” of the press, it ultimately found its sustenance in the form of an Augustinian ethic. Chapter Two examines the possibility of a metaphorical acquisition of Augustinian hermeneutics in the metadrama of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This hermeneutics ultimately calls into question the epistemological framework of Theseus’s skeptical aesthetics, suggesting that a more inclusive aesthetics based on charity can elevate the stage to its proper dignity. The last chapter turns from the communal implications of Augustinian ethics to its subjective implications by examining Augustine’s inner light theology and the role it plays in John Milton’s late poetry. Instead of falling in line with criticism that sees the simultaneous publication of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes as a dialectical meditation on the virtues of pacifism and the evils of religious violence, this reading suggests that the late poetry asserts the ethical rights of those who attend to the inner light, whether they be peaceful or violent. / text Donne, John,--1572-1631--Ethics Donne, John,--1572-1631--Philosophy Milton, John,--1608-1674--Ethics Milton, John,--1608-1674--Religion Milton, John,--1608-1674--Philosophy Literature and morals--History
138	John Donne : de la satire à l'humour / John Donne : from satire to humor Benard, Clementine 01 October 2018 (has links) Cette étude s'attache à démontrer comment les écrits satiriques du poète élisabéthain John Donne (1572-1631) lui permettent de développer une esthétique propre, qui ne se cantonne pas qu'au corpus satirique strict mais trouve également une résonance dans le reste de son œuvre. Traditionnellement considérée comme une tendance marginale dans sa poésie, la satire chez Donne s'exprime à travers d'autres textes, laissant ainsi transparaître un « esprit satirique ». Le jeu et la prise de distance du poète vis-à-vis des conventions littéraires, sociales et religieuses de son époque nous permettent de mettre au jour une poétique dominée par le doute et la mélancolie. Cette humeur noire, selon la théorie médicale des humeurs, nous conduit vers l'humour et le comique : fort peu examinés chez Donne, ces concepts transparaissent pourtant à la lecture des textes les moins explorés par la critique, dévoilant ainsi une esthétique qui donne sa cohérence au corpus. John Donne n'est pas que le chef de file de la poésie métaphysique : son statut de satiriste lui confère également celui d'humoriste. / This study aims to show how the satiric writings of Elizabethan poet John Donne (1572-1631) display a specific aesthetics, which is also to be found in all his work and not only in his satiric texts. Although it has traditionally been considered as a fringe element in Donne's poetry, satire appears in other writings, thus disclosing a ''satiric spirit''. By playing and distancing himself from the literay, social and religious standards of his time, the poet's work reveals an aesthetics ruled by doubt and melancholy. According to the system of medicine called ''humorism'', melancholy is a black fluid that brings us to humour and comedy : even though they have been rarely examined in Donne studies, these concepts do stand out after a close reading of the least sought-after poems. It thus unites and makes the whole of Donne's poetry coherent. Not only is he the best representative of the metaphysical poets, he is also a satirist as well as a humorist. Poésie anglaise 16ème siècle Poésie anglaise 17ème siècle Renaissance anglaise John Donne (1572-1631) Humour Comique Mélancolie Maniérisme Satire Manuscrits Censure Controverses religieuses English poetry 16th cebtury English poetry 17th century English Renaissance John Donne (1572-1631) Humour Comedy Melancholy Mannerism Satire Manuscripts Censorship Religious controversies 821
139	Early modern literary afterlives Chaghafi, Elisabeth Leila January 2012 (has links) My thesis explores the posthumous literary life in the early modern period by examining responses to ‘dead poets’ shortly after their deaths. Analysing responses to a series of literary figures, I chart a pre-history of literary biography. Overall, I argue for the gradual emergence of a linkage between an individual’s literary output and the personal life that predates the eighteenth century. Chapter 1 frames the critical investigation by contrasting examples of Lives written for authors living before and after my chosen period of specialisation. Both these Lives reflect changed attitudes towards the writing of poets’ lives as a result of wider discourses that the following chapters examine in more detail. Chapter 2 focuses on the events following the death of Robert Greene, an author often described as the first ‘professional’ English writer. The chapter suggests that Greene’s notoriety is for the most part a posthumous construct resulting from printed responses to his death. Chapter 3 is concerned with the problem of reconciling a poet’s life-narrative with the vita activa model and examines potential causes for the ‘gap’ between Sir Philip Sidney’s public life and his works, which continues to pose a challenge for biographers. Chapter 4 examines the evolution of Izaak Walton’s Life of Donne. The ‘life history’ of Walton’s Lives, particularly the Life of Donne, reflects an accidental discovery of a biographical technique that anticipates literary biography. My method is mainly based on bibliographical research, comparing editions and making distinctions between them which have not been made before, while paying particular attention to paratextual materials, such as dedications, prefaces and title pages. By investigating assumptions about individual authors, and also authorship in general, I hope to shed some light on a promising new area of early modern scholarship and direct greater scrutiny towards the assumptions brought into literary biography. 821
140	Jack is Dead Reeder, Connie 16 May 2008 (has links) No description available. Death Greed Family Last Will & Testament Grief Suicidal Feelings Channeling Spirit Religion Nature Philosophy War Internal Revenue Service Songs Songwriter Deity Tarot Poets Poetry Donne Extasie Music Business Broadway Plane Crash

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