Browsing by Author "Ullyatt, Gisela"
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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 ... -
"Dwelling in the fear of the scales forever": Religious diction in pro-anorectic websites from a discourse-analytic perspective
Ullyatt, Gisela (University of Johannesburg, 2010)Anorexia Internet sites (also known as "Pro-Ana" sites) employ various linguistic devices in the propagation of their message. This article sets out to investigate such devices as they are used in or by these sites. The ... -
“The only chance to love this world”: Buddhist mindfulness in Mary Oliver's poetry
Ullyatt, Gisela (Routledge; Taylor & Francis; Unisa Press, 2011)The article examines selected poems by Mary Oliver from a Buddhist reader's perspective, with a particular focus on Buddhist mindfulness (smrti in Sanskrit and sati in Pali). Her personal style and use of various poetic ...