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Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest), Marion Gibbs Jul 2009

Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest), Marion Gibbs

TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

Friedrich Neumann described Thomasin's Der Welsche Gast as a linguistic phenomenon without comparison within the corpus of German literature of the Hohenstaufen period. In the didactic literature of the time, Der Welsche Gast does indeed occupy a unique position. . . . [It] betrays the heavy hand of the clerical moralist who moves from providing the younger members of his audience with a primer for proper social etiquette in his early verses to a meticulous analysis of what he clearly viewed as the appropriate ethical code for the nobility of his time, often presented against the backdrop of a thundering …


Intimacy, Elizabeth Knapp Jun 2008

Intimacy, Elizabeth Knapp

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In one of his finest poems, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," William Carlos Williams writes: "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / but men die miserably everyday / for lack / of what is found there." Earlier, his contemporary, W.H. Auden, had made his famous claim that "poetry makes nothing happen." While the views of the two great modernists appear to be at odds with each other, they are in fact two sides of the same argument, the yin and yang at the center of all true art. For what these poets saw as critical to both …


To-Do List, Andrew Soliday Jan 2008

To-Do List, Andrew Soliday

The Laureate

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Consumption, Carolyn Racine Jan 2008

Consumption, Carolyn Racine

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How I'Ll Know If You Are Home, Rebecca Mansberger Jan 2008

How I'Ll Know If You Are Home, Rebecca Mansberger

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The Ocean Is Sitting Alone In A Chair In The Corner Of A Nearly Empty Room, Jodi Hovey Jan 2008

The Ocean Is Sitting Alone In A Chair In The Corner Of A Nearly Empty Room, Jodi Hovey

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Camille, Caroline Lampinen Jan 2008

Camille, Caroline Lampinen

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Drink To The Moon, Shoshana Mcintosh Jan 2008

Drink To The Moon, Shoshana Mcintosh

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Hyena, Kathleen Tarleton Jan 2008

Hyena, Kathleen Tarleton

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"It Looks Like The Ground Is On Fire", Kimberly Schoetzow Jan 2008

"It Looks Like The Ground Is On Fire", Kimberly Schoetzow

The Laureate

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Harvest's Dusk, Kimberly Knopf Jan 2008

Harvest's Dusk, Kimberly Knopf

The Laureate

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Crescendo, Jenna Cashera Jan 2008

Crescendo, Jenna Cashera

The Laureate

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Recalling A Mood To Be Aghast., Nathan Lipps Jan 2008

Recalling A Mood To Be Aghast., Nathan Lipps

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Carrion, Simon Thalmann Jan 2008

Carrion, Simon Thalmann

The Laureate

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Grandpa's Collections, Keith Carver Jan 2008

Grandpa's Collections, Keith Carver

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In Sight Of The White Cathedral., Nathan Lipps Jan 2008

In Sight Of The White Cathedral., Nathan Lipps

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To The Squirrel On Rose, Jessica Rethman Jan 2008

To The Squirrel On Rose, Jessica Rethman

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French Vanilla, Ren Kim Jan 2008

French Vanilla, Ren Kim

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Echo, Jennifer Dempsey Jan 2008

Echo, Jennifer Dempsey

The Laureate

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A Silence In Perfect Cursive, Carissa Dismuke Jan 2008

A Silence In Perfect Cursive, Carissa Dismuke

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Archipelago, Rebecah Pulsifer Jan 2008

Archipelago, Rebecah Pulsifer

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Untitled, Amber Adams Jan 2008

Untitled, Amber Adams

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In My Bedroom/Winter Has Been Far Too Long, Andrew Soliday Jan 2008

In My Bedroom/Winter Has Been Far Too Long, Andrew Soliday

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The Pains In My Stomach, Theresa Thomas Jan 2008

The Pains In My Stomach, Theresa Thomas

The Laureate

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Rain Town, Melanie Crow Aug 2006

Rain Town, Melanie Crow

Dissertations

My project, a collection of poetry, examines both loss and transformation. Personal loss informs the poems, but the work also addresses how the speaker is accorded insight into the world because of loss and is transformed. The work takes into account mythology, science, and the act of writing in order to understand what it means to live in mutability. Many of the poems demonstrate an acute awareness of the body. Robert Lowell and Jorie Graham are both writers who have informed my poems in this way; both explore a dual consciousness of loss and renewal and both represent moments of …


Worry, Kristen Tracy Aug 2005

Worry, Kristen Tracy

Dissertations

The poems that make up Worry investigate themes of feminine struggle, identity, and survival. They move at a fast pace, and many of the metaphors are drawn from the animal kingdom.


Starlight Drive, William R. Reynolds Jr. Jun 2005

Starlight Drive, William R. Reynolds Jr.

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Starlight Drive is a book-length manuscript of poems that reflects my abiding interest in how poetry can use the fiction writer's tools, such as characterization and setting, without sacrificing the beauty of the lyric. Like Rodney Jones, I write about my north Alabama childhood filtered through the lens of my adult life here in the Midwest. My field of perception does not begin in a cotton field like Jones', but on a cul-de-sac in a middle-class neighborhood of Huntsville, where my father was an engineer for NASA. The poems in my manuscript show my protagonist moving through a landscape peopled …


Mothers Of Us All: When Does Political Message Take Precedence Over Art In Some Modern And Contemporary Women’S Poetry, Shanda Hansma Blue Easterday Aug 2004

Mothers Of Us All: When Does Political Message Take Precedence Over Art In Some Modern And Contemporary Women’S Poetry, Shanda Hansma Blue Easterday

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This dissertation contains an essay with the above title, as well as two sections of poems. The first section of poems is entitled Maria Sibylla Merian, Artist and Naturalist , and is a collection of poems about, and in the voice of, Merian. Many of these are what are known as personna poems. The second section of poems is entitled The Beekeeper's Wife , and uses autobiography as a framework for communicating the humor in human relationships, and for illustrating the surrealism in the human race's relationships with the natural world.

My research for my essay entailed the study of …


Dear Beyond, Kirsten Hemmy Aug 2004

Dear Beyond, Kirsten Hemmy

Dissertations

My project. Dear Beyond, a collection of poetry, examines the connection between landscape—both internal and external, or private and public—and environment. My poetry reflects my own unique background and my struggles with emplacement, or the placing of oneself in any particular landscape. It aims to challenge dominant paradigms of voice, expression, and even inquiry; it questions traditional, systematic forms of inquiry such as the Cartesian idea of an essential separation between object and subject. Culture and landscape, I have discovered, manifest themselves everywhere, in variegated forms: in spaciousness or intimacy, in internal and external contexts, in tactile experiences, in focused …


Stylus, Megan Drozan Jan 2003

Stylus, Megan Drozan

The Laureate

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