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The Other Side Of Our Game, Kim Solga
The Other Side Of Our Game, Kim Solga
Department of English Publications
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Introduction:The Impossible Modern Age, Kim Solga
Introduction:The Impossible Modern Age, Kim Solga
Department of English Publications
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W.B. Yeats: A Poet In A Destitute Time, Kristiana N. Karathanassis
W.B. Yeats: A Poet In A Destitute Time, Kristiana N. Karathanassis
2017 Undergraduate Awards
In the elegy titled “Bread and Wine,” Friedrich Hölderlin asks, “and what are poets for in a destitute time?” Drawing on the theories of Martin Heidegger, who addresses this very question in his essay “What are Poets For?”, I argue that the modernist poetry of William Butler Yeats offers an answer, as well as a demonstration. Through an analysis of “The Second Coming” (1919), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926), and “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (1939) in the order of their publication, I reveal that as Yeats’ poetic career developed and transformed, so too did his understanding of, and relationship to, his …
“I Am No Woman, I”: The Myth Of Ganymede In Shakespeare’S Venus And Adonis And Marlowe’S Hero And Leander, Kristiana Karathanassis
“I Am No Woman, I”: The Myth Of Ganymede In Shakespeare’S Venus And Adonis And Marlowe’S Hero And Leander, Kristiana Karathanassis
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Epyllion poems, or little epics, functioned in Renaissance society as provocative, comedic, and deeply intertextual explorations of Elizabethan sexuality and gender. Venus and Adonis (1593) by William Shakespeare and Hero and Leander (1598) by Christopher Marlowe are widely recognized as seminal poems of this erotic genre. Through their engagement and experimentation with the titular characters and narratives from Ovidian classical mythology, both poems seem to present subversive explorations of heterosexual love and desire in the Renaissance. In apparent transgressions and reversals of Petrarchan love conventions, Adonis, the beautiful male youth, is feminine and sexless, while Venus—the love goddess herself—is aggressive …