During the twelfth century, a group of poets at the Norman court in Sicily composed traditional Arabic panegyrics in praise of the kingdoms Christian monarchs. Less than a century later, at the court of Frederick II, Sicilian poets wrote the first lyric love poetry in an Italian…
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This thesis identifies a series of strategies employed by contemporary Spanish-language poets in Latin America and Spain in order to navigate shifts in the economic and cultural landscape that occur in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid…
The fundamental purpose of this dissertation is a comparative study of the concepts of love and the Beloved in the ghazals (lyrics) of Sa'd[Special characters omitted.] <math> <f> <rm><a><ac>i</ac><ac>&d1;</ac></a></rm></f> </math> (d. 1292) and Hafez (d. 1389), world-renowned P…
This thesis analyzes David Jones’s In Parenthesis to demonstrate the failed notion of chivalry, courtesy, and knighthood in modernity during and after the war. Jones’s semi-autobiographical prose poem recounting his experiences of WWI was published in 1937, nineteen years after …
Long acknowledged as a committed poet of place, this thesis examines tones of outsiderness and alienation that characterize George Scarbrough’s poetry. Scarbrough draws on familiarity with his childhood in southeast Tennessee, and from an outsider’s outlook, a perspective verita…
Since its heyday in the early 1960s, diction has fallen out of the critical conversation. Today diction is talked about, if at all, as a matter of praxis and thus is relegated almost exclusively to workshops; and when this diction becomes poetic, it offers a clear way not to pro…
In City of God Augustine refers to the theatre as a “pestilence” on the morals of the Roman people. Further, he devotes a large portion of the third book of the Confessions to outlining his own sinful experiences with the theatre and a Platonic attack on the poetical arts. From …
S.H.A.M (the Syrian House of Architectural Memory) is an acronym to the word ash- Shām, or Sham which means the Levant, in general, and Damascus, in particular in the local spoken tongue.
Built upon work addressing the “poet-critic” in modernism (Kindley, 2017) and guided by work associated with the New Formalism, this thesis explores the development of critical exchanges in verse within modernist communities, theorizing how Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Marianne M…
Your Tenderness for Truth examines a spectrum of wounding personal violations in their entwinement with loving companionship and larger histories of colonial and imperial trespasses. With attention to what I term “intimate violations”—gendered transgressions against a person’s s…
In Literary Studies, from the late 1970’s onwards there was increasing interest in and focus on, the importance of context in the study of literary works. New Historicism and materialist criticism became much more important. In The United States Stephen Greenblatt and others dev…
Poetry is work of art in which poets express their thoughts, feelings and emotions through oral presentation or writing. According to Tsambo (1999: 2), “poetry is the expression of the life experiences; these life experiences are unfolded or expressed in a variety of themes.” Th…