Lyric poetry as secular prayer

Lyric poetry as secular prayer

Many writers think of writing poetry as being akin to praying for various reasons. This dissertation investigates what it means to write poetry as a kind of prayer and extrapolates these implications for the act of reading poetry. It attempts to construct a theory of how lyric poetry can function as...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter:	Zhang, Jieqiang
Andre forfattere:	John Richard Tangney
Format:	Thesis
Sprog:	English
Udgivet:	2015
Fag:	DRNTU::Humanities::Religions DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
Online adgang:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62078

Lignende værker

Poetry as postmodern
af: Zhang, Jieqiang
Udgivet: (2010)

Poetry as postmodern
af: Zhang, Jieqiang
Udgivet: (2012)

Cyril Wong’s poetry: examining the confessional.
af: Goh, Jiamin.
Udgivet: (2011)

Reading and writing genders : explorations of androgyny in early modernist poetry.
af: Khew, Tessa Yu Ping.
Udgivet: (2012)

Empiricist devotions : science, religion, and poetry in early eighteenth-century England (Review)
af: Runia, Robin
Udgivet: (2020)

Sound, sense, and story : narrativity and poeticity in the contemporary lyric poem
af: Wee, Samuel Ting Han
Udgivet: (2018)

The aesthetic of the Irish lyric : W.B. Yeats and Derek Mahon
af: Chia, Joanne Weiting
Udgivet: (2015)

C. S. Lewis : the problem of pain in a secular age
af: Lee, Agnes
Udgivet: (2015)

When schools compete : a study on the influence of Jehovah's witnesses religion on secular higher education decisions
af: Pang, Rui Ting
Udgivet: (2013)

Female Muslims in Singapore : negotiating Islamic modesty in a secular state.
af: Siti Nurfadhilah Binte Hashim.
Udgivet: (2013)

The music of life in Galway Kinnell's poetry
af: Leong, Jia En
Udgivet: (2021)

Exploring colonial anxiety in the poetry and prose of Yi Sang
af: Soh, Gail
Udgivet: (2015)

温庭筠艳情诗词研究 = Study on Wen Tingyun’s erotic poetry and Ci-poetry
af: 洪媛 Hong, Yuan
Udgivet: (2015)

Comparative study of Tamil new poetry in Singapore, Malaysia and India (1965-1990)
af: Thyagarajan Mayandy Thevar.
Udgivet: (2008)

唐五代闺怨诗词研究 = A study on Tang and five dynasties boudoir poetry and ci-poetry
af: 李慧仪 Lee, Judith Huiyi
Udgivet: (2014)

Looking back : Shakespeare's indebtedness to Chaucer and the representations of Chivalry in King Richard II, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Knight's Tale
af: Han, Cheryl Suling
Udgivet: (2013)

Female independence as a state of becoming: a feminist existentialist and socioeconomic perspective in celia brayfield's pearls
af: Gan, Genevieve Kai Lynn
Udgivet: (2017)

怀旧与记忆：陈志锐的诗学记忆 = Nostalgia and memory : reading of Tan Chee Lay’s lyric poetics
af: 胡慧音 Oh Hui Yin
Udgivet: (2018)

“You say you want to be transformed” : Jeanette Winterson and reader empowerment in The Powerbook and Art & Lies
af: Zhang, Youying
Udgivet: (2013)

The faux in Dickens’ gentlemen : great disappointments and twists in the underbelly of London
af: Zhang, Samuel Junyang
Udgivet: (2009)

Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction
af: Long, Chao
Udgivet: (2019)

Writing the tomboy
af: Joseph, Cassandra Jean
Udgivet: (2015)

Neglected patterns in a highland beauty, the aesthetic conditions of
af: Lok, Joshua Cheng Huai
Udgivet: (2015)

Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions
af: Yee, Victoria Wei Wen
Udgivet: (2015)

The changing novel form : Virginia Woolf and John Banville
af: Lim, Yiru
Udgivet: (2015)

Application of Judith Butler’s “gender performativity” in Asian cultures
af: Ding, Gary Yongping
Udgivet: (2015)

The new Chinese women
af: Seah, Pei Jun
Udgivet: (2015)

Sita and Surpanakha : blurring the distinction between good and evil women in Valmiki’s Ramayana
af: Chandrika Mohan
Udgivet: (2015)

The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood
af: Lau, Qian Yu
Udgivet: (2015)

The ends of occidentalist desire in Conrad's 'Malay' novels : 'every name in history is I
af: Wagner, Tamara Silvia
Udgivet: (2015)

Decolonising the angels in the ecosystem : Orlando as Virginia Woolf’s ecofeminist vision of Utopia
af: Wong, Wen Pu
Udgivet: (2015)

Aletheia
af: Lim, Jacqueline Xin Yi
Udgivet: (2015)

The responsibility of art to the ethical in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai
af: Loh, Amanda Phieh Hsin
Udgivet: (2015)

Roald Dahl : a discourse in the relationship between gender and power portrayal
af: Kok, Seline Xin Hui
Udgivet: (2015)

Mothering of nature : an ecofeminist analysis of capitalism and motherhood in Barbara kingsolver’s flight behaviour and prodigal summer
af: Izza Ismail
Udgivet: (2015)

Fathoming faggotry : a study of Larry Kramer’s faggots alongside Kate Millett’s sexual politics
af: Teo, Gerard Emmanuel
Udgivet: (2015)

Transgressing otherness : embracing the abject in beauty and the beast
af: Chiu, Shi Hui
Udgivet: (2015)

A journey towards the unknown : navigating the self in the works of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Richardson’s Pamela and Burney’s Evelina
af: Pinto, Gillian Clare
Udgivet: (2015)

Exploring pragmatic romance in Eileen Chang’s fiction
af: Lim, Eunice Ying Ci
Udgivet: (2015)

You are what you eat : oral aggression and agency in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in wonderland and Catherynne Valente’s the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making
af: Anthony, Tanya
Udgivet: (2015)