Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The purpose of the dissertation is to appraise the qualities of Louis MacNeice's poetry, to discover its relationship to his critical theories, and to determine its development since his first important work in the nineteen-thirties. That there has been a development has not always been recognized; there have been no full length studies of MacNeice's work, and the short discussions of his poetry have been primarily concerned with his place in the Auden Group. Poetry, MacNeice came to believe, is essentially a communication of some truth, rising out of the poet's own experience but bearing an essential relationship to more universal truths, grounded in a belief held by the poet but shared by other men, and striving through the ritual of its expression to extend its grasp of truth beyond the limits of empirical reality to the Unknown. The poet's duty is to find an organic relationship with the life of the community that he may speak to the common man. The changing themes in MacNeice's poetry are the result of his attempt to apply these theories [TRUNCATED]

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It is an initial assumption of this paper that the reading of a poem is an experience which the reader undergoes, or in which he participates. The reader is part of the process of the poem. Hence the discussion of "A": 1-12 is focussed on a consideration of what happens in the reading of the poem. The point of view taken is that the poem itself is an exercise in how to read. In the pursuit of this discussion, the poem is observed as an object, as anoordered device; as Zukofsky's model of the universe he perceives. Communication theory is used as an initial model for an analysis of the way in which meaning is conveyed to the reader. The subsequent discussion involves a study of Zukofsky's use of analogies and technics, as well as an analysis of the ways in which he uses language. As a cumulative result, a sense of the subjective experience of the poem is derived through the metaphor of cyclicality. The discussion of movements within the poem become cycles of movement between the reader and the poem, and between the writing and the poem. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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Cette dissertation comprend la traduction de quatre articles allemands au sujet de Louis-Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814). Les traductions sont precedees d'un "Avantpropos biographique" et suivies d'un ''Commentaire de la traductrice". / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Une lecture des ceuvres de Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset dans le contexte de la critique littcrairc de son epoque / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Philosophie--Paris 10, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 759-794. Index.

Texte remanié de: Thèse--Histoire médiévale--Paris--École des Chartes, 2000. Titre de soutenance : Louis II de La Trémoille ou La découverte de l'Italie, 1480-1525. Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire médiévale--Paris 4, 2001. Titre de soutenance : Louis II de La Trémoille ou Le dernier Moyen âge, 1460-1525. / En appendice, choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 549-576. Index.

Version remaniée d'une thèse de doctorat. / Numérotation dans la coll. principale : 697. Bibliogr. p. 293-313. Index.