Sökning: "pure poetry"
Visar resultat 6 - 9 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden pure poetry.
6. Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome
Sammanfattning : This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. LÄS MER
7. Reading John Climacus: Rhetorical Argumentation, Literary Convention and the Tradition of Monastic Formation
Sammanfattning : This thesis offers an investigation of the literary form and the literary composition of The Ladder by John Climacus, as well as a study of how the author uses the tradition to form his reader. Besides a brief introduction with a survey of the previous research, the study comprises four chapters. LÄS MER
8. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity
Sammanfattning : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. LÄS MER
9. Att anlita översättning : Chaucer, Dryden, Arnold, Pound
Sammanfattning : This thesis – Translation employed – Chaucer, Dryden, Arnold, Pound – investigates the motives and circumstances of translations of four authors/translators: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dryden, Matthew Arnold and Ezra Pound. All four employ translation for purposes that exceed linguistically faithful transmission of a source text. LÄS MER