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The Crawford And Ella Peffer / Redpath Chautauqua Collection, William David Barry
The Crawford And Ella Peffer / Redpath Chautauqua Collection, William David Barry
Maine History
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Beloved, Anthony Shay
Beloved, Anthony Shay
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The "beloved" forms a central literary concept, highly developed during the medieval Islamic period and still popular in our own times, in the urbanized societies of the Middle East and Central Asia. Encountered throughout the literatures of Persian, Ottoman, and Chaghatay (Uzbek) Turkish, Urdu, and Arabic, among others, this concept manifests itself through highly charged, homoeroticized images and metaphors. The beloved is characterized through such highly eroticized and theatrical tropes of wanton allurement as disheveled locks, torn garments, intoxication symbolized by a wine cup in hand, and appearing at the bedside of the feverish lover. (See, for example, the poems …
Style Guide For Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Style Guide For Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
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Purdue Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Purdue Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
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"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson
"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson
Jill E. Anderson
In this dissertation, I argue that early nineteenth-century American poets’ and readers’ interpretations of Romanticism shaped their understanding of the role poetry and its producers could play in a developing national culture. By examining the public careers and private sentiments of four male poets — William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jones Very — I analyze how each reconciled poetic vocation with the moral and economic obligations associated with the attainment of manhood. I locate these poets and their critics within specific historical discourses of aesthetic reception and production, focusing on the tensions and overlaps between …