Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Stockholm, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Stockholm, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and indexes.

Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains iii, 86 pages. Bibliography: p.82-86.

'1603. The Wonderfull Yeare: Literary Responses to the Accession of James I' argues that when James VI of Scotland was proclaimed James I of England on 24 March 1603, the printed verse pamphlets that greeted his accession presented him as a figure of hope and promise for the Englishmen now subject to his rule. However, they also demonstrate hitherto unrecognized concerns that James might also be a figure of threat to the very national strength, Protestant progress, and moral, cultural, and political renaissance for which he was being touted as harbinger and champion. The poems therefore transform an insecure and undetermined figure into a symbol that represents (and enables) promise and hope. PART ONE explores how the poetry seeks to address the uncertainty and fragility, both social and political, that arose from popular fears about the accession; and to dissuade dissenters (and make secure and unassailable the throne, and thereby the state of England), through celebration of the new monarch. Perceived legal, political, and dynastic concerns were exacerbated by concrete difficulties when James was proclaimed King of England, and so he was more than fifty miles from the English border (only reaching London for the first time in early May); his absence was further prolonged by plague; this plague also deferred the immediate sanction of public festivities that should have accompanied his July coronation. An English Jacobean icon was configured in literature to accommodate and address these threats and hazards, neutralizing fears surrounding the idea of the accession with confidence in the idea of the king it brings. In the texts that respond to James's accession we observe his appropriation as a figure of hope and promise. PART 2 looks to more personal hopes and fears, albeit within the national context. It considers how the poets engage with the King's own established iconography and intentions, publicly available to view within his own writing - and especially poetry. The image that is already established there has the potential either to obstruct or to enable national and personal causes and ambitions (whether political, religious, or cultural). The poetry therefore develops strategies to negotiate with and so appropriate the King's own self-fashioning.

Five Kingdoms. (Under the direction of Don Stap.) Five Kingdoms is a collection of 55 poems in three sections. The title refers to the five kingdoms of life, encompassing every living thing. Section I explores political themes and addresses subjects that reach across a broad expanse of time--from the oldest bones of a child and the oldest map of the world to the bombing of Fallujah in the current Iraq war. Connections between physical and metaphysical worlds are examined. The focus narrows from the world to the city in section II. The theme of shelter is important to these poems, as is the act of being a flâneur. The search for shelter, physical and spiritual, is explored. The third section of Five Kingdoms narrows further to the individual. Political themes recur, as do ekphrastic elements, in the examination of individual lives and the search for physical and metaphysical shelter. The title poem "Five Kingdoms," was written on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. This non-narrative poem is composed of a series of questions for the reader regarding personal and national security. It is a political poem that uses a language of fear and superstition to question what we are willing to sacrifice to be safe and what "safety" means. The poem ends with a call to action: "Before you break in two, categorize/the five kingdoms, count all the living things." The poems in this manuscript are a kind of counting that pays attention to the things of the world through praise and elegy. The poems in Five Kingdoms are indebted to my reading of many poets, in particular Michael Burkard, Carolyn Forché, Brenda Hillman, Tony Hoagland, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Denise Levertov, Jane Mead, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, and Mark Strand.

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This thesis is a critical examination of the poetry of S. M. Bums-Ncamashe. In his poetry Bums-Ncamashe handles poems of different categories; namely praise poetry, elegiac poetry, didactic poetry and protest poetry. He also employs a number of devices that determine amongst others, the form and imagery of his poetry. They are also used to add clarity to the meaning of his poetry. All this is discussed in the chapters numerated below: Chapter one outlines the basic guidelines to be followed in this study. It presents the aim of the study, scope of the work and method of research. A definition of the concept poetry is also provided in this chapter. The biography of Bums-Ncamashe and the influence of his background on his poetry are also part of this first chapter. Chapter two discusses the characteristics of Bums-N camashe' s praise poetry and the functions this poetry fulfils. Chapter three is a discussion ofBums-Ncamashe's elegiac, didactic and protest poetry. Chapter four discusses the devices that determine the form ofBums-Ncamashe's poetry. These include repetition, contrast, compounding, ideophones, and interjectives. Chapter five concentrates on imagery and other aspects of Bums-Ncamashe's poetry. Imagery is discussed from the viewpoint of simile, metaphor, personification and symbolism. Also included in this chapter is euphemism, hyperbole, idiomatic expressions, humour, satire and adaptation. Chapter six is a concluding chapter in which some findings and recommendations from the entire study are reflected upon. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Cette thèse porte sur la renaissance de l’élégie latine à l’ère humaniste, au début du XVe siècle, à Sienne. Giovanni Marrasio compose alors le premier recueil d’élégies en langue latine de la Renaissance, l’Angelinetum, d’inspiration amoureuse, auxquels s’ajoutent de nombreux poèmes variés, ses carmina varia. Avant lui, ce genre n’avait pas retrouvé d’expression depuis plusieurs siècles. L’œuvre du poète, très variée dans ses thèmes et dans ses sujets, trouve son unité dans l’utilisation exclusive du distique élégiaque. Cela conduit à s’interroger sur la conception de l’élégie latine que Marrasio illustre : s’il se réapproprie de nombreux thèmes et de nombreuses topiques caractéristiques des élégies antiques, il intègre dans sa poésie plusieurs héritages littéraires d’époques ultérieures. Tous ces emprunts sont savamment fondus dans une poésie originale au gré d’une imitation habilement pensée. Les modalités de cette imitation sont analysées dans toute leur variété : la réminiscence littéraire s’exprime ainsi par l’allusion, la citation et la traduction. L’analyse de l’imitation marrasienne permet également d’évaluer les nouveaux apports du poète au genre élégiaque, notamment par l’intégration de thèmes pétrarquistes et par le rapprochement de l’élégie et de l’épigramme. Marrasio participe, en tant que lettré, à certains débats littéraires de son temps, tels l’inspiration ou la valeur de la poésie, qui trouvent dans ses poèmes, des illustrations inédites, repérables grâce à une pratique métapoétique de l’écriture. Marrasio se révèle à la fois un passeur et un novateur dans la renaissance du genre élégiaque. / This thesis deals with the renaissance of the Latin elegy in the humanist era, at the beginning of the 15th century, in Siena, when Giovanni Marrasio composed the first collection of elegies in Renaissance Latin, Angelinetum, with love as its inspiration, in addition to numerous diverse poems, his carmina varia. This style of expression had not been in use for several centuries prior to this. The exclusive use of the elegiac distich lends unity to the wide range of themes and subjects in the poet's work. This leads one to ponder the conception of the Latin elegy as illustrated by Marrasio : if he reappropriates many themes and topics characteristic of ancient elegies, he integrates several literary legacies from various earlier periods in his poetry. All these borrowings are skillfully combined into original poetry by means of clever purposeful imitation. The methods of this imitation are analysed in full: literary influence is thus expressed by allusion, quotation and translation. The analysis of Marrasian imitation also allows the poet's new contributions to the elegiac genre to be evaluated, in particular his use of Petrarchist themes and combination of the elegy and the epigram. As a man of letters, Marrasio took part, in certain literary debates of his time, on topics such as inspiration or the value of poetry, which find novel expression in his poems, identifiable thanks to a metapoetic writing style. Marrasio turns out to be both an imitator and an innovator in the renaissance of the elegiac genre.

L’élégie connaît une vogue manifeste à l’aube de notre modernité, au sein de ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler le préromantisme et le romantisme. Mais cet engouement ne va pas sans susciter de profondes interrogations sur la dimension générique de l’élégie. En effet, depuis son acclimatation en français, l’élégie ne peut plus être définie par le seul critère formel, devenu douteux. En outre, dès l’âge classique, deux dangers minent le genre : sa variété thématique qui gêne sa définition et une évolution sclérosante qui le fige en clichés. Émerge donc le souci de rédimer un certain babélisme de l’élégie et d’en refonder le pouvoir expressif par le recours à la notion plus souple d’ « élégiaque ». La modernité de l’élégie s’adosse à cet héritage problématique et réclame une perspective d’étude résolument historique : la vitalité de l’élégie au seuil du XIXe siècle s’autorise d’une nouvelle saisie du genre, qui promeut l’élégiaque au rang de critère premier, ramenant peu à peu l’étiquette d’élégie à la portion congrue. L’œuvre de Millevoye permet de dater ce point de bascule, qui ouvre la voie à l’élégie romantique, attachée à la notion naissante de « lyrisme » et magnifiée par Lamartine sous les auspices de la méditation. Mais en refondant l’élégie sur l’expressivité élégiaque, la modernité romantique l’a soumise aux aléas des sollicitations du sujet par l’histoire, qui le déstabilisent. D’où un déplacement de l’écriture élégiaque durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, dans le repliement intimiste, le dédoublement parodique et humoristique, ou encore la polyphonie, manifestations diverses d’une remise en cause de la source subjective de la plainte élégiaque. Quand revient à la surface du champ littéraire l’élégie revendiquée comme telle, à l’occasion du traumatisme de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, c’est pour cristalliser en un genre labile les doutes, les deuils et les sourires d’un lyrisme incertain de son propre chant comme de l’existence du sujet qui le hante plus qu’il ne le chante. / The elegy was fashionable at the dawn of modernity, during the periods which are known as Pre-Romanticism and Romanticism. But this infatuation with elegy was not without raising deep questioning on its generic dimension. Indeed since the French had appropriated the genre, the elegy can no longer be just defined by a formal criterion which has become disputable. Furthermore, as early as the classical period, two dangers have been subverting the genre: its wide range of themes which is an obstacle to our grasping its quintessence and an evolution at a standstill condemning it to stereotyped perceptions. And from this came the worry to amend the confusion existing around the elegy as well as the urge to revivify its expressive power around the more flexible notion of "elegiac". The modernity of the elegy relies on this problematic heritage and requires a study in historical perspective: the vitality of the elegy at the beginning of the XIXth century allowed itself to provide a new interpretation of its genre that promoted the elegiac as a decisive criterion. Millevoye’s works enables us to date this turning point which paved the way to the romantic elegy linked to the rising notion of "lyricism" and glorified by Lamartine under the auspices of meditation. But while revivifying the elegy on elegiac expressiveness, romantic modernity compelled with the subject having to respond to historical vagaries that were eventually unsettling. Hence a shifting away from elegiac writing during the second half of the XIXth century into intimist withdrawal, parodic splitting or polyphony, all of them being various utterances of a questioning of the elegiac complaint’s subjective source. When the elegy as such resurfaced the literary scene owing to the trauma of the Second World War, it featured a shifting genre to crystallize the doubts, mournings and smiles of a lyricism as uncertain of its own song as the very existence of a subject that haunted its lines more than he inhabited them.

Aquest estudi versa, en l’àmbit de la poesia lírica i, especialment, elegíaca, sobre el rol del poeta i de la seva obra com a portadors de glòria i d’immortalitat, amb especial deteniment en el context d’execució de la poètica elegíaca històrico-commemorativa i els seus vincles amb la realitat dels cultes i de les pràctiques civico-polítiques contemporànies. / The subject of this work is directly related to the goals of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. It tries to achieve an interdisciplinary approach to Greek Elegy focusing the laudatory and heroic aspects. It consists in a study on the role of the poet and his poetry as vehicle for glory and immortality to the new heroes of the late archaic and classical polis.