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1. A Century of Literary Criticism: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Monthly Review.

Author

Arnold, Whitney and Arnold, Corey

Subjects
*LITERARY criticism, *CRITICAL discourse analysis, *POETRY (Literary form), *GOTHIC architecture
Abstract

For almost 100 years, the Monthly Review documented literary history in Britain through its efforts to review every published text. Appearing monthly from 1749 to 1844, the periodical sheds light not only on texts published during this time, many of which are now "lost" to scholarly analysis, but also on the original critical discourse surrounding these texts. Analysis of the Monthly Review presents an opportunity to discern influential trends in publishing and literary criticism, yet close examination of the periodical proves formidable due to its size. In this paper, we use statistical topic modeling to "read" the over 140,000 pages of the Monthly Review, revealing prominent themes and discourses in the corpus. In particular, we highlight the periodical's presentation of genre differences and its privileging of specific discourses and frameworks of critical evaluation, all of which served to shape contemporary readers' perceptions of the rapidly expanding literary sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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2. Mother Tongues—the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars.

Author

Brueck, Laura

Subjects
*FEMINISTS, *POETRY (Literary form), *NATIVE language
Abstract

This essay considers the methodological intervention of understanding a 'mother tongue' (matribhasha) as a gendered vernacular. It seeks to illustrate the subversive potential of the vernacular as a gendered lens though which we can understand the Dalit feminist critiques of caste hierarchies and Dalit and non-Dalit patriarchies, and the places they intersect. The essay considers the works of Anita Bharti and Meena Kandasamy, contemporary Dalit women authors who write in Hindi and English, respectively. Thus, this paper extends the definition of the vernacular beyond the confines of linguistic and regional specificity, allowing for a feminist reclamation of the term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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3. Reframing Poetry: The Romantic Essay and the Prospects of Verse.

Author

Hess, JillianM.

Subjects
*ESSAYS, *ROMANTICISM in literature, *POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism, *PROSE literature, *LITERARY form, *MATERIAL culture in literature
Abstract

What happens to poetry when it is reframed within a work of prose? This paper analyzes William Hazlitt's prose style, with particular attention to moments in which he reframes poetry by extracting it from the patterns of rhyme and meter and placing it within the rhythms of his essays. In doing so, Hazlitt stylistically challenged the boundaries of genre; simultaneously, the content of his essays defined prose as a hybrid form, built through a process of mining other texts for quotations. This paper also makes an argument for the crucial role material culture played in Hazlitt's writing style. It demonstrates how Hazlitt's participation in friendship albums and commonplace books informed what he called a “familiar style” of writing. Ultimately, this paper sheds light on understudied manuscripts and analyzes their role in shaping the Romantic-essay form. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2013
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4. Rethinking Soseki's theory.

Author

Kōjin, Karatani

Subjects
*JAPANESE literature, *HAIKU, *LITERARY criticism, *JAPANESE poetry, *POETRY (Literary form), *PHILOLOGY
Abstract

This paper builds on the discussion of Bungakuron in Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1993). It focuses on Soseki's collaboration with Masaoka Shiki to revive haiku and the links that Soseki found between the haiku-related genre of shaseibun (literary sketches) and the grotesque, loosely plotted realism of Laurence Sterne. Like Bakhtin, Soseki recognizes something in early novelistic forms that would later be disciplined out. Furthermore, this paper argues that in the preface to Bungakuron Soseki provides both an encomium to his dead friend Masaoka and a prescient announcement of the 'end of literature', perceived 100 years early from his vantage point as a non-Western subject witnessing the 'end of empire' in London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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5. Acknowledgment and Avoidance in Coleridge and Hölderlin.

Author

Deakin, Wayne

Subjects
*SKEPTICISM, *POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism
Abstract

In this paper I propose a reading of Coleridge and Hölderlin using Stanley Cavell’s philosophical theory of acknowledgment and avoidance as an interpretive rubric. I argue that recognition (acknowledgment) of the skeptical limits of reason and the imagination allow Hölderlin, through his poetical theory, philosophy and practice, to overcome the epistemological limits of the romantic imagination; this factor is instanced in his poetry. On the other hand, Coleridge's work remains trapped within skeptical limits because of his “avoidance” of this ontological recognition, which is due to his continued desire for an intellectual intuition. I further my argument by using the hermeneutics of Heidegger as a secondary tool in reading both poets and in helping to illuminate their relative poetic and philosophical positions. Both poets ultimately recognize the limits of our imaginative autonomy; however, they articulate these limits in very different ways – ways that are useful keys in unlocking the work of Coleridge and Hölderlin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2015
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6. In the midst of transition: Salaryman senryū poems and the perception of workplace change.

Author

Spinks, Wendy A.

Subjects
*JAPANESE poetry, *SENRYU, *BEHAVIORALISM (Political science), *POETRY competitions, *WORK environment & psychology, *EMPLOYEES in literature, *ORGANIZATIONAL behavior, *POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism, *TWENTIETH century
Abstract

This paper analyzes a set of 9,035 salaryman senryū poems over an eighteen-year period (1990-2007) in order to track salaryman reactions to workplace transition from an organizational behavioralist perspective. Major findings include: (i) the number of submissions and votes for the major poetry competition, Salaryman Senryū, have been falling since 1994, suggesting a decline in shared salaryman mentality; (ii) there has been a shift in the relative importance of broad themes, so that the workplace as a category of senryū poems is of less centrality in 2007 than it was in 1990; (iii) within the workplace category, (negative) interpersonal relations, especially with supervisors, still dominate; and (iv) workstyle is also a strong subtheme, with workers showing more interest in work processes than actual work conditions. The analysis also shows that the years 1996 and 1997 are a watershed where poems shift from a more jocular to strident tone. The overall implication of the study is a potential breach of the social contract between Japanese employers and regular employees, which will require the assiduous application of supportive employment practices (SEP) in order to ensure a high level of employee performance and engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011
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7. The Integration of Western Modernism in Postcolonial Arabic Literature: a study of Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayati's Third World poetics.

Author

Gohar, SaddikM

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism, *ISLAMIC civilization, *WESTERN civilization, *LITERATURE, MIDDLE Eastern civilization, ISLAMIC countries
Abstract

Undermining the narrow critical approaches which neglect the potential intersection between modernism and postcolonialism, this paper explores the attempt by contemporary Arab poets to engage Western modernist heritage in order to articulate domestic narratives integral to the geopolitics of the Arab region in the postcolonial era. In an attempt to redefine tradition and deviate from fossilised inherited legacies and tyrannical regimes, postcolonial Arab writers, led by the Iraqi poet, Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayati, pursue solace and redemption in Western modernism, developing Western forms into a poetics of resistance and protest. Through textual apprenticeship, assimilated from Western literature and culture, they combine modernism and postcolonialism into a nexus incorporating Western techniques while emphasising variants and displacements between their nationalist perspective and that of their Western forebears. Convinced of the role played by the West in the shaping of modern Arabic cultural traditions, Al-Bayati reconstructs colonial modernism as a narrative of liberation, engaging in dialogues with Western pioneering writers and masterpieces. Transforming Western modernist strategies into a revolutionary construct, Al-Bayati aims to challenge internal oppression and external hegemony. Through tran-cultural entanglement and textual appropriation of Western narratives he provides diversity and insight into postcolonial Arabic poetry, intensifying the awareness of other traditions and reconstructing his own heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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8. THE LONG SCHOOLROOM: PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS IN W. B. YEATS'S POEM 'AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN'.

Author

Nutbrown, Graham

Subjects
*LITERARY criticism, *POETRY (Literary form), *IDEALISM
Abstract

In the mid-1920s the poet W. B. Yeats was pleased to discover contemporary philosophers, Giovanni Gentile and A. N. Whitehead, whose metaphysical and educational philosophies seemed to coincide with his own commitments. Whitehead shares with Gentile a sense of reality as activity and an understanding of knowledge as constructed from abstractions that are open to evaluation and imaginative reconfiguration. Yeats was a Senator of the Irish Free State and took an interest in schooling. Soon after visiting a Montessori-inspired girls' school in Waterford, he began his poem 'Among School Children". (The text of the poem is printed at the end of this paper.) I argue that an awareness of the philosophical ideas Yeats had recently encountered should encourage restless rather than fixed interpretations of the poem and that this sense of restlessness and imaginative reconfiguration reflects the approach to education the three writers, at that time, shared: that at best our modes of apprehension provide only glimpses of reality and therefore each child's understanding and learning must be kept moving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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9. Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in The Seafarer.

Author

Warren, Michael J.

Subjects
*OLD English poetry, *ORNITHOLOGY, *BIRDS in literature, *ECOLOGY & literature, *OLD English manuscripts, *POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism
Abstract

In this paper I apply current ecologically centred methodologies in the humanities to explore the familiar image of the bird-soul in The Seafarer in close relation to the real seabirds that are one of the most striking aspects of the maritime environment of the poem. Far from appearing as mere background incidentals, the poet's treatment of the seabirds we first encounter resonates with contemporary ornithological knowledge, and suggests that they feature specifically as species that best convey the ascetic trials and endeavours of the sea-going speaker who observes, listens to and names seabirds. The curious essence of seabirds as creatures that are always at home on the seas, and yet journeying to a home elsewhere, establishes them as what I term "native foreigners", a paradox that highlights the seafarer's conflicting yearnings and reflects the difficult earthly/celestial dynamic in the poem's perceptions of the soul's journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2017
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10. 'I lov'de thee best': London as Male Beloved in Isabella Whitney's 'The Manner of her Wyll'.

Author

Gleed, Paul

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism, *LONDON (England) in literature, *IRONY in literature, *MASCULINITY in literature
Abstract

This paper reflects on the role of London as male Beloved in Whitney's 'Last Wyll and Testament'. Such a characterization of the city, the paper argues, has two consequences. First, it complicates and provides an important challenge to the ubiquitous personification of London as female in early modern England. Second, this dynamic between female speaker and male Beloved encourages a reconsideration of Whitney's agency in the poem - often celebrated as forceful - as more consciously ironic (although, ultimately, all the more compelling and effective because of it). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] </p></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Published</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors">2012</dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3"><span class="tags-custom">Full Text</span></dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors"><a class="pdf-blue-icon" target="_blank" href="https://doi.org/10.1179/174963212X13296107765873">View/download PDF</a></dd> </dl> </article><article data-document-id="asx__55116402" data-document-counter="11" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" class="blacklight-review document document-position-11"> <header class="documentHeader row"> <h3 class="index_title document-title-heading col-sm-9 col-lg-10"> <span class="document-counter"> 11. </span> <a data-context-href="/articles/asx__55116402/track?counter=11&document_id=asx__55116402&search_id=25554410" href="/articles/asx__55116402">'Ozymandias,' or De Casibus Lord Byron: Literary Celebrity on the Rocks.</a> </h3> <div class="index-document-functions col-sm-3 col-lg-2"> <form class="bookmark-toggle" data-doc-id="asx__55116402" data-present="In Bookmarks" data-absent="Bookmark" data-inprogress="Saving..." action="/bookmarks/asx__55116402" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="XOPuHwytgdst8n2ugRBJvs9pnuO1aSj0+WtWF3MOEF+DcfmeFYETxG0+seQW3wKAnEsYPV/eqQ4kJ8iw6zQVZQ==" /> <input type="hidden" name="catalog_type" id="catalog_type" value="articles" /> <input type="submit" name="commit" value="Bookmark" id="bookmark_toggle_asx__55116402" class="bookmark-add btn btn-outline-secondary" data-disable-with="Bookmark" /> </form> </div> </header> <dl class="document-metadata dl-invert row"> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Author</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors mb-0"> <p class="truncate-text"> Mozer, HadleyJ.</p></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Subjects</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors">*<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22LITERARY+criticism%22">LITERARY criticism</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22POETRY+%28Literary+form%29%22">POETRY (Literary form)</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22ENGLISH+sonnets%22">ENGLISH sonnets</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22POETS+in+literature%22">POETS in literature</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22ROMANTICISM+in+literature%22">ROMANTICISM in literature</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%2219TH+century+English+poetry%22">19TH century English poetry</searchLink></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_languages col-md-3">Abstract</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_languages"><p class="truncate-text"> Though rarely discussed in such terms, 'Ozymandias' represents a monumental moment in the so-called Shelley-Byron 'debate' or 'conversation.' Noting the failure of source studies to account convincingly for the origins of the facial features of Ozymandias, this paper argues that the pharaoh's 'frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command' are suspiciously Byronic, evoking the physiognomy of the Byronic hero and of Byron himself as portrayed in the widely circulated portrait of 1814-15 by George Henry Harlow. In other words, this paper argues that Ozymandias is a portrait - or rather a word-bust - of that early-nineteenth-century literary colossus known as 'Byron.' By depicting that colossus decapitated and in ruins, Shelley, who felt dwarfed by the genius and celebrity of Byron, prophesies the day when the sun would finally set on the literary empire of the poet whom he despaired of rivaling. Long a routine stop on the grand tour of British Romantic literature, 'Ozymandias' now asks to be revisited as a de casibus poem - i.e. a poem 'on the falls' of the mighty - that does not merely warn despots about the vanity of their pride and ambition but that also lectures Lord Byron on the vanity of his literary celebrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] </p></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Published</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors">2010</dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3"><span class="tags-custom">Full Text</span></dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors"><a class="pdf-blue-icon" target="_blank" href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2010.514494">View/download PDF</a></dd> </dl> </article><article data-document-id="asx__79242497" data-document-counter="12" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" class="blacklight-review document document-position-12"> <header class="documentHeader row"> <h3 class="index_title document-title-heading col-sm-9 col-lg-10"> <span class="document-counter"> 12. </span> <a data-context-href="/articles/asx__79242497/track?counter=12&document_id=asx__79242497&search_id=25554410" href="/articles/asx__79242497">Transplantations.</a> </h3> <div class="index-document-functions col-sm-3 col-lg-2"> <form class="bookmark-toggle" data-doc-id="asx__79242497" data-present="In Bookmarks" data-absent="Bookmark" data-inprogress="Saving..." action="/bookmarks/asx__79242497" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="eC5mHXqadlCUP+pgg/NJzdV8Hm4zPraA673frTxsWGFNgX+6DOrSwuf0joMym0g23kfP5rho6+p+h7t6w3KK3g==" /> <input type="hidden" name="catalog_type" id="catalog_type" value="articles" /> <input type="submit" name="commit" value="Bookmark" id="bookmark_toggle_asx__79242497" class="bookmark-add btn btn-outline-secondary" data-disable-with="Bookmark" /> </form> </div> </header> <dl class="document-metadata dl-invert row"> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Author</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors mb-0"> <p class="truncate-text"> Bergam, Marija</p></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Subjects</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors">*<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22LITERARY+criticism%22">LITERARY criticism</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22POETRY+%28Literary+form%29%22">POETRY (Literary form)</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22PLANTS+in+literature%22">PLANTS in literature</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22PLACE+%28Philosophy%29+in+literature%22">PLACE (Philosophy) in literature</searchLink>, *<searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22CARIBBEAN+poetry%22">CARIBBEAN poetry</searchLink></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_languages col-md-3">Abstract</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_languages"><p class="truncate-text"> The aim of this paper is to disclose the nexus of dislocation and ecology in the work of two Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Lorna Goodison. It shows how they deal with the founding experiences of the wider Caribbean community, such as diaspora and the process of creolisation, by drawing on the vegetation imagery. The concept of transplantation is central to this reading, as it refers to the history of forced removal, while also celebrating the biological and cultural hybridity of the region. Arguably, the shared preoccupation with island vegetation can be associated with the importance of naming for the Caribbean writers – hence the constant references to language in their representations of local plants. If geographic dislocation caused linguistic dislocation, it is only through the repossession of language that the poet is able to enact a return to her/his homeland. In Walcott and Goodison, however, this aim is pursued through further dislocation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] </p></dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3">Published</dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors">2012</dd> <dt class="blacklight-eds_authors col-md-3"><span class="tags-custom">Full Text</span></dt> <dd class="col-md-9 blacklight-eds_authors"><a class="pdf-blue-icon" target="_blank" href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.703815">View/download PDF</a></dd> </dl> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="modal fade" id="loginModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog"> <button type="button" id="loginclose" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true">×</span> </button> <div class="modal-dialog" role="document"> <h5>Discovery Service for Jio Institute Digital Library</h5> <br /> <p>For full access to our library's resources, please sign in.</p> </div> <div class="login-modal-button-wrapper"> <button class="login-modal-sign-in"> <a rel="nofollow" data-method="post" href="/users/auth/saml">Sign In</a> </button> </div> </div> </section> </div> </main> <footer class="navbar navbar-inverse site-footer" style="position: static;"> <div class="container footer-container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3 py-4 align-self-center site-footer-links-column"> <div class="footer-logo center-block"> <a href="https://library.jioinstitute.edu.in"> <img class="logo-img" src="/assets/Jio-DLLogo-b5a8a0808ea64b7ff5d156e304a4a034eee76224caf66c04cead90a411971fad.png" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-8 py-3 pb-5 pb-md-3 site-footer-links-column align-self-center"> <div class="row text-center footer-links-row"> <div class="col-4 col-sm-2"> <div class="navlink"><a href="https://library.jioinstitute.edu.in/contact">Contact</a></div> </div> <div class="col-4 col-sm-3"> <div class="navlink"><a href="https://library.jioinstitute.edu.in/access/covid-19-advisory">Covid-19 Advisory</a></div> </div> <div class="col-4 col-sm-2"> <div class="navlink"><a href="https://library.jioinstitute.edu.in/access/policies">Policies</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row text-center secondary-footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-2 px-0"> <div class="footer-logo"> <a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/"> <img class="logo-img" src="/assets/JioLogoWhite-3a250c43ad67a5117225db9885c1ac0b116f92a0df0839e850e68dfbbce66ae7.png" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-4 py-1 py-md-3"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/about">About Us</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-4 py-1 py-md-3"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/academics">Academics</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-4 py-1 py-md-3"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/research-overview">Research</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-4 py-1 py-md-3 pl-0 pr-0"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/campus-life"> Campus Life</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-4 py-1 py-md-3"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/contacts"> Contact</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-4 py-1 py-md-3"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink float-right"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/terms-conditions">T&C</a></div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col py-1 py-md-3 pl-0"> <div class="navlink footer-navlink float-right"><a href="https://jioinstitute.edu.in/privacy-policy"> Privacy Policy</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --> <script async src=https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-R4B0KJQ5EY></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-R4B0KJQ5EY'); </script> </footer> <div id="blacklight-modal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg" role="document"> <div class="modal-content"> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>