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    • Bride of Amazement : a Buddhist perspective on Mary Oliver's poetry 

      Ullyatt, Gisela (North-West University, 2013)
      The thesis undertakes a Buddhist reading of Mary Oliver’s oeuvre. It seeks to fill a palpable lacuna in extant criticism of her work, which tends to adopt Romantic, Feminist, Ecocritical, and Christian viewpoints. Thus ...
    • Coleridge : the Gothic as a means to instruction 

      Vermeulen, J. (North-West University, 2018)
      This study has as its subject how Samuel Taylor Coleridge utilises the Gothic as a means of instruction in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Christabel”. That is, it aims to identify a coherent instructional purpose ...
    • The desire for the ineffable : on the myth of music as absolute : research article (2009/544) 

      Froneman, Willemien (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte, Potchefstroom, 2009)
      This article proposes to establish and critique connections between religious and musico-aesthetic conceptions of in-effability by exploring the link between neoplatonic thought and romantic aesthetics. The central thesis ...
    • Perpetual nature: continuities between romantic and rodernist nature poetry 

      Hambly, A. (North-West University (South Africa), 2020)
      The premise of this dissertation is that there are Romantic continuities present in the Modernist nature poetry and -imagery of T.S. Eliot and E.E. Cummings, which is especially apparent when compared to the nature poetry ...
    • W.B. Yeats's aesthetic philosophy in his earlier works 

      Du Toit, Marika Bella (2015)
      This dissertation investigates the development of W.B. Yeats’s aesthetic philosophy during his earlier career (1883 to 1907), particularly as it is presented in his prose writing and certain dramatic works of the period. ...