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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Main Author: Zhang, Jieqiang
Other Authors: John Richard Tangney
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62078
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English