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2. Taking account of Webster.
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Bartlett, I.H.
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BOOKS - Abstract
Reviews the second series of `The Papers of Daniel Webster' entitled `Legal Papers.' The editor-in-chief is Charles M. Wiltse. `Legal Papers' is edited by Alfred Konefsky and Andrew J. King and comprises three volumes.
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- 1991
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3. Taking account of Webster.
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Bartlett, I.H.
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BOOKS - Abstract
Reviews the third series of `The Papers of Daniel Webster,' entitled `Diplomatic Papers, 1841-52.' The editor-in-chief is Charles M. Wiltse. Series three is edited by Kenneth E. Shewmaker, Kenneth R. Stevens, Anita McGurn, and Alan R. Berolzheimer.
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- 1991
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4. Reviews of books.
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Ward, Harry M.
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GENERALS , *ARCHIVES - Abstract
Reviews Volume IV through Volume VI of `The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,' edited by Richard K. Showman, Robert E. McCarthy, Dennis M. Conrad, Elizabeth C. Stevens, E. Wayne Carp, Susan M. Bowler, Nathaniel N. Shipton, Mary MacKechnie Showman, Laurie L. Weinstein, and Roger N. Parks.
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- 1992
5. Taking account of Webster.
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Bartlett, I.H.
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BOOKS - Abstract
Reviews the `General Index' to `The Papers of Daniel Webster.' The editor-in-chief is Charles M. Wiltse. The `General Index' is edited by Alan R. Berolzheimer.
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- 1991
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6. Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (Book).
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Levere, Trevor H.
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ORGANIC chemistry , *SAP (Plant) , *BLOOD , *DISTILLATION , *CHEMISTRY - Abstract
Until the early nineteenth century, organic chemistry was the chemistry of substances occurring naturally in animal and vegetable matter, such as blood, digestive juices, and sap. Those substances were prepared by solvent extraction or, more destructively, by distillation. This form of chemistry was related to natural history, physiology, and the operations of living systems, and covered the gamut from pharmacy to the" vegetable staticks" of Stephen Hales. The case was essentially different for the mineral chemistry that lay at the heart of the chemical revolution effected by French Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his supporters at the end of the eighteenth century.
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- 2004
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7. Inverted minor literature: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben's poem "Rotwälsch" and the naturalization of the German language.
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Wolf, Benedikt
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GERMAN poets , *GERMAN poetry , *ROGUES & vagabonds , *GERMAN language , *LANGUAGE policy - Abstract
In 1829, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who was later to write "Das Lied der Deutschen," published one of the first scholarly articles on what was known as the Gaunersprache (rogues' language), Rotwelsch. His article included a poem in Rotwelsch he had written himself. Against the backdrop of Hoffmann's nationalist persuasion and participation in the nationalist project of Germanistik, this paper discusses the question of why he turned to writing in a language he portrays in the same article as hybrid and criminal. Informed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of minor literature, this analysis of the poem itself and of its publication context concludes that Hoffmann participates in an older tradition of inverted minor literature in Rotwelsch, that is, a literature that a majority constructs within a minor language. Thus, Hoffmann's poem appears as an attempt at naturalizing Germanness by ascribing the artificial and deterritorializing aspects of any language to the Other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. The Map at the Limits of His Paper: A Cartographic Reading of The Prelude, Book 6: "Cambridge and the Alps".
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CARLSON, JULIA SANDSTROM
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LITERARY criticism , *POETRY (Literary form) , *CARTOGRAPHY ,EUROPE description & travel ,ALPS description & travel - Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Prelude," by William Wordsworth, focusing on the section "Cambridge and the Alps" in Book 6 of the poem. It examines the role of the poem in determining biographical information about Wordsworth from the summer of 1790, when he and friend Robert Jones traveled in Europe and the Alps. The author discusses the poem in light of cartography and a letter written from Wordsworth to his sister during the European tour.
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- 2010
9. These old writing paper blues: The blues stanza and literary poetry.
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Ford, Karen J.
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AFRICAN American poetry , *BLUES music in literature - Abstract
A critique is presented of African American poems such as "For Malcolm, A Year After" by Etheridge Knight, "Ballad of the Landlord" by Langston Hughes, and "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" by Gwendolyn Brooks. The influence of blues music on poetry, the poems' stanzas, and the social conditions of African American poets are discussed.
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- 1997
10. Victim of Eros: The Poetics of Sex in Theocritus' First Idyll.
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Bouchard, Elsa
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POETICS , *CHASTITY - Abstract
This article proposes a new interpretation of the "sufferings of Daphnis" as they are sung by the shepherd Thyrsis in Theocritus' first Idyll. While the common view is that Daphnis' wasting was caused by a stubborn commitment to fidelity or to chastity, this paper argues that it is rather a symptom of his sexual impairment. The argument rests on two main elements: the connections between Daphnis and other figures acting as Aphrodite's consorts, and the presence of lexical clues pointing to the sexual character of the cowherd's illness. Finally, I argue that Theocritus' enigmatic account of Daphnis' fate in the first Idyll is consistent with the pervading metapoetic discourse of the poem: impotence serves to highlight Daphnis' fecundity as the founder of bucolic song. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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11. Horace's Ode 1.12: Subterranean Lyrics.
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Giusti, Elena
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POLITICAL stability - Abstract
Horace's Ode 1.12 is commonly thought to be alluding to the wedding between Augustus' nephew C. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus' daughter Julia in 25 b.c.e. but there are equally good poetic reasons for reading the poem instead as alluding to the young Marcellus' demise in the last quarter of 23 b.c.e. and to see it in direct dialogue with the epicedia for Marcellus composed by Virgil and Propertius. The present paper reviews the evidence for either dating and proposes that the poem actively resists and at the same time engenders historicist interpretations by virtue of lyric's ability to create its own historical temporalities. As a poem touching upon the thorny issue of the acceptability of imperial succession in a period when Augustus' life was in danger, Ode 1.12 can be read as actively engaged in a hermeneutic "conspiratorial" game with its readers, prompting them to question or imagine allusions to contemporary events at a time of utmost political instability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE BODY: ADRIENNE RICH'S VISION.
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Gelpi, Albert
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FEMINISM in literature - Abstract
The article critiques the poetry of American poet Adrienne Rich. It addresses changes in the tone and temper of Rich's feminism, the poet's mode of seeing and saying, and strategies for rescuing language from the oppressors' structures of meaning. Poems include "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children," "Yom Kippur 1984," and "Transcendental Etude."
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- 1998
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13. The dream of a common language: Vietnam poetry as reformation of language and feeling in the...
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Greenwald, Elissa
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WAR poetry , *VIETNAM War, 1961-1975, in literature , *FEMINISTS , *PACIFISTS - Abstract
A critique is presented of poems such as "Planetarium," "The Demon Lover," and "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children" by Adrienne Rich, which allude to the Vietnam War and Rich's understanding of feminism. Rich's involvement in the civil rights and anti-war movements in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s is discussed, as well as her belief in pacifism.
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- 1993
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14. Why do Refugees have to Leave their Sweet Home "Unless home is the Mouth of a Shark"? An Analysis of Warsan Shire's Poem Home.
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Gunes, Ali
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REFUGEES , *SOCIAL unrest , *INDIGENOUS peoples - Abstract
This paper analyses in Warsan Shire's poem Home why refugees have to leave their home. In so doing, it first explores the root causes behind particularly the displacement of Somalians, which becomes an inspiration for the poem and also argues that these causes may actually be similar ones which could be seen one way or another behind any act of the displacement anywhere across the world. Secondly, the paper responds to the criticisms which accuse refugees of leaving at once their home when they face any difficulties in life. In this sense, the poem becomes the voice of "refugees" and tells the world that "refugees" will not take all the risks in very dangerous and difficult journeys without any reasonable causes. As the paper discusses, what is also equally important is that "refugees," though exposed to very hard conditions of living during the journey and in the host country, are also labelled as "Other," which immediately brings about a negative condition, in which they are humiliated, discriminated and categorised as "us" and "them, making it difficult for refugees to integrate and eventually belong to the indigenous society. Finally, the paper debates that it is not the guilt of refugees who leave their home but the ones who create intolerable causes for their displacement from their home. The paper suggests that we are all responsible - United Nations, politicians, world leaders, writers, intellectuals, and academics and so on all over the world - not only for revealing the root causes behind the displacement of people from their home but also for annihilating them all together for a humanely world and living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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15. Book Review: Functional Somatic Syndromes. Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. Edited by Peter Manu. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998; 304 pp., $44.95 (paper).
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Morrison, James
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- 2002
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16. Robert Lowell's Onionskin Aesthetic.
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KOSC, GRZEGORZ
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POETRY collections , *POETRY writing - Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Onion Skin" by Robert Lowell' which was first published in "Notebook 1967-68" in which the material qualities of the paper Lowell was using to draft it, his sensory experience of the typed text and the multiple versions of the poem became a subject of his poetic inquiry.
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- 2018
17. Christopher Okigbo's Poetics and the Politics of Canonization.
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Abba, Abba A.
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HEROES , *PATRIOTISM ,NIGERIAN politics & government, 1960-1975 - Abstract
Christopher Okigbo conveyed in his poetry the sense of patriotism and personal anguish at the monstrosity of a benighted nation. Some critics have argued that Okigbo was not only obsessive in his depictions of metaphors that incarnated the recurring trope of death, but also embodied a death wish culminating in his death in the Nigeria-Biafra war. They further argue that he embodied a suicidal impulse that motivated his general conduct and death in that battle. Unfortunately, only a handful of scholars have sought to contest this view and to illuminate Okigbo's self-immolation in the name of a higher duty. To be sure, suicide and martyrdom may go beyond the question of dying to the problem of laying one's death dramatically at someone else's door. Following Kant's theory of the ethical act, this paper undertakes a critical intervention that reappraises some of Okigbo's poetry as well as documented accounts of his life in order to identify him appropriately: is he a genuine martyr or a mere suicide who presides ritually over his own dismemberment, or both? Examining lines of his poetry that have been misread as embodying his 'haunting' death-wish, on the one hand, and evidence of his self-giving impulse, on the other, the paper seeks to articulate how Okigbo as a tragic poet transcends his destiny by submitting to it--victor and victim at once. In its conclusion, the paper reconciles Okigbo's will to heroic action with the symbolic meaning that is locked in his poetry in order to justify his ascension to the rank of martyr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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18. Stationary Epithalamia in Hexameters? The Evidence from Sappho, Theocritus, and Catullus.
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Faraone, Christopher A.
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EPITHALAMIA - Abstract
Three ancient poets—Sappho, Theocritus, and Catullus—provide neglected evidence for Greek wedding poems composed in hexameters. Theocritus, Idyll 18 and Catullus in Carmen 62 are usually thought to reflect Greek wedding songs originally sung in lyric or choral meters; but why did Sappho, herself a lyric poet extraordinaire, compose some of her wedding poems in hexameters, a meter that she hardly uses elsewhere? This paper suggests that the Greeks traditionally performed at least one kind of wedding poem in dactylic hexameters. This in turn leaves open the possibility that when Theocritus and Catullus use hexameters in their wedding poems, they, too, are imitating the content and the form of this neglected genre. This is a circular argument of sorts, but one familiar to scholars seeking to make sense of the earliest fragments of ancient Greek poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. Noisy Nuisance: Chris Ireland’s Aphasic Poetry.
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Fürholzer, Katharina
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APHASIC persons , *LANGUAGE & languages , *DISABILITIES , *SOCIOCULTURAL factors , *HIERARCHIES - Abstract
The article focuses on aphasic poetry by Chris Ireland, exploring how her poems create an aesthetic equality that challenges communicative hierarchies between aphasic patients and their surroundings. The paper delves into the pathological, poetical, and sociocultural implications of aphasic depictions of sounds caused by both society and aphasia, highlighting the potentials and perils of poetic approaches to language impairment.
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- 2020
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20. THE LONG SCHOOLROOM: PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS IN W. B. YEATS'S POEM 'AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN'.
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Nutbrown, Graham
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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]
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- 2019
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21. Book reviews.
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Thomas, John W.
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BOOKS - Abstract
Reviews the papers `Agarain Reform and Official Development Assistance in the Philippines, Four Papers,' by J. Putzel, A. Quisumbing, F. Lara and W. Armstrong.
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- 1992
22. Documents and Bibliographies.
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WORLD history - Abstract
Presents a list of documents, bibliographies and other books related to world history that appeared in April 1985 issue of 'The American Hisorical Review.' 'L'Esclavage dans le monde grec: Recueil de textes grecs et latins,' edited by Yvon Garlan; Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes,' by Deno John Geanakoplos; 'King's Inns Admission Papers, 1607-1867,' edited by Edward Keane et al.
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- 1985
23. The Remnants of the Poets' Brotherhood: Octavio Paz, Poetry, Theory, and the Question of Community.
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FRIDMAN, FEDERICO
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LITERARY theory , *MEXICAN poetry , *MEXICAN poets , *COMMUNITIES in literature , *POETICS , *POLITICS & literature - Abstract
In this paper, I analyze Octavio Paz's theoretical and political thought vis-à-vis his view of the poet as a member of an exclusive brotherhood. By tracing the displacement of Paz's thought from philosophical discourse toward literary language and poetic expression, I establish how (in opposition to Hegel's dialectic) Paz defined poetry and the poetic experience as superior forms of knowledge that could serve as the foundation for a poets' brotherhood, as well as being the ideal cognitive instruments with which to think about the origin of community at large and to develop a subversive critique of it. I trace Paz's evolving view of the decline of both the poets' brotherhood and the subversive power of poetry during the twentieth century, as he grappled with the profound transformations in language and communications provoked by the development of technology. I examine this transition in his thinking, which occurred between the first and second editions of El arco y la lira, to discuss the trajectory that guided him to the position that he assumed as an intellectual when he finally returned to Mexico in 1971. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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24. BERGSONIAN MEMORY AND SIMULTANEITY IN THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT AND CÉSAR VALLEJO.
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ASCIUTO, NICOLETTA
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- ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, VALLEJO, Cesar, 1892-1938, BURBANK With a Baedeker: Bleistein With a Cigar (Poem), FOUR Quartets (Poem : Eliot). Burnt Norton, DRY Salvages, The (Poem)
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This paper brings together the poetry of authors T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and César Vallejo (1892-1938), comparing and contrasting their perceptions of time as simultaneity, following the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Simultaneity is for both poets a way of reconnecting with the past, and making the present a more endurable experience. This paper looks specifically at Vallejo's 'A mi hermano Miguel', Trilce VI, LXI, LXIV, LXV and 'Fue domingo en las claras orejas de mi burro . . . ', and at Eliot's 'Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar', The Waste Land and Four Quartets ('Burnt Norton', 'The Dry Salvages'), arguing how it is possible to discern in both authors a use of time which is a union of past, present and future, allowing both Vallejo and Eliot to reconnect with a past irremediably lost and perpetually sought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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25. Sara Baartman and the Ethics of Representation.
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DUNTON, CHRIS
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AFRICAN poetry , *CIVIL war , *RWANDAN Genocide, 1994 - Abstract
This paper has as its main concern a reexamination of Stephen Gray's 1977 poem "Hottentot Venus" in the light of two events that occurred after the poem's publication: first, the return of the remains of Sara Baartman (Gray's Hottentot Venus) to South Africa and their ceremonial burial; second, the publication of a biography of Baartman by Clifford Crais and Pamela Scully, a work that has much to say on the production of knowledge and the uses made of this. The paper compares Gray's poem with a poem on Baartman by Diana Ferrus and with Suzan-Lori Parks's play Venus, focusing on the attribution of agency or its absence. This discussion leads into an examination of the ethics of representation (especially the representation of the Other and of suffering), surveying, first, historical studies of the representation of Khoekhoe, Bushmen, and other marginalized peoples of southern Africa, then novels that attempt such representation or that problematize this by Dalene Matthee, Yvette Christianse, and Zoe Wicomb, and addressing views on the ethics of representation by, among others, Antjie Krog, Susan Sontag, and Alice Walker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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26. Choosing Rest in Paradise Lost.
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Ritchie, Daniel and Hedges, Jared
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REST , *HUMANISM - Abstract
As they depart the Garden of Eden at the end of Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve must “choose their place of rest” in the world. Most scholarly treatments of this “rest” place it in the eschatological context of Hebrews 4. Our paper highlights the neglected worldly significance of rest in Paradise Lost. Adam and Eve come to understand rest in relation to work, speech, understanding, eating, and sexual expression, both before the fall and after. Our article enables readers to identify with “our first parents” in seeking a “place of rest” in this world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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27. Finding Patria and Pietas in Leeds: Tony Harrison and Virgil’s Aeneid.
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Marshall, Hallie
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INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Abstract
Since his translation of Aeschylus's Oresteia, produced at the National Theatre in 1981, Tony Harrison has been closely associated with ancient Greek literature, especially that of the dramatic poets. And while his work since the 1980s has often drawn on fifth-century BC Athenian drama, his training as a Classicist is steeped in Latin poetry, particularly that of Virgil. Little has been written, however, about the place of Virgil or Latin poetry more broadly, in Harrison's poetic imagination. This is largely because of the relative paucity of works by Harrison which explicitly engage with Latin poetry. This paper will argue, however, that there is as much to learn from the absence of explicit engagement as there is to learn from the works that do engage with the Latin poetic tradition, particularly when it comes to the influence of Virgil's Aeneid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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28. Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in The Seafarer.
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Warren, Michael J.
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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]
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- 2017
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29. Finger-pointing (Painting) in Neuter: The Deixis of Portraiture in the Third-person Lyric of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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LEGNANI, NICOLE D.
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THIRD person narrative , *LYRIC poetry , *LAUDATORY poetry , *GENDER in literature - Abstract
The figurative pointing and painting in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetry create unique intersections of voice, person and gender whence lyric in the neuter or third person may speak. This paper follows her use of deixis (from the epideictic tradition), the gesture of pointing at and describing a person or an object, as a way to trace her subjectivity to the point of origin for the invective or praise, while exploring her navigation of the third and first persons within that tradition. Though the lyric traditionally operates on the first-person/ second-person dialectic, Sor Juana's productive use of the epideictic in her lyric poems opens a space for the neuter, or ternary logic, in a genre dominated by male subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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30. Let Us Dance.
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Fitzpatrick, Esther, Worrell, Frank C., Alansari, Mohamed, and Yang Li, Alex
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ORLANDO Nightclub Massacre, Orlando, Fla., 2016 , *LIBERTY - Abstract
I looked at the call for papers, “Poetic responses to Orlando” and paused. Should I contribute? And then I thought, how could I hide in the safety of my so-called normality and straightness when others may have become afraid to dance? So I invited my friends to join me in a poetic response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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31. THE QUESTION OF FOREIGNNESS IN MOHJA KAHF'S E-MAILS FROM SCHEHERAZAD.
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Abdul-Jabbar, Wisam Kh.
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LITERARY criticism , *ENGLISH poetry , *21ST century English poetry , *ENGLISH literature , *NONCITIZENS , *OTHER (Philosophy) in literature , *ARAB authors - Abstract
This paper examines foreignness in Mohja Kahfs poetry volume, E-mails from Scheherazad (2003), as a celebratory commodity rather than a literary trope to resist Arab women representations or to accentuate exilic voices. Drawing on Julie Kristeva's conceptualization of foreignness as internal personae and not a projection of an external locus of identity, this paper explores how the speakers in some of Kahfs poems view foreignness as festive rather than negative. In sharp contrast to the traditional conception of difference as publicly alienating, foreignness to the Arab-American speakers becomes a distinctive mark that they uphold and celebrate. Examining foreignness in Kahfs poems through Kristeva's lens provides a sense of uniqueness to the immigrant's experience. The notion of recognizing the foreigner in ourselves, that Kristeva provides, subverts the general perception of foreignness as external and intruding. Kahfs poetry can be perceived as a negotiation of foreignness, which is not an estranging element that incurs resistance but rather as a celebratory part of the human consciousness that should be jubilantly defined rather than politically defended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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32. Drawing out a new image of thought: Anne Carson's radical ekphrasis.
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Tschofen, Monique
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ART & literature , *QUESTIONING , *TORTURE , *TRUTH , *EKPHRASIS - Abstract
This paper examines a poem written by Anne Carson in 1999 in response to a drawing by artist Betty Goodwin titled Seated Figure with Red Angle (1988). The critical issue both artist and poet explore is interrogation. For Goodwin, interrogation relates to the history of torture, forced disappearances and other state-perpetuated atrocities. Torture is not an overt theme in Carson's poem but it remains central to the poem's broader exploration of the meanings of interrogation as a mode by which Western culture has sought knowledge, truth, and certainty, which have as their stakes the objectification of others. Arguing that the poem retrieves a connection between the notion of truth (alethêia) and the ancient Greek practice of basanos — or truth by torture — the paper explores the formal strategies the poem uses to challenge the legacy of rationalist epistemology. Like Goodwin, Carson evokes and then refuses the grid-like structures of containment of syntax and sense. She also refuses to subject her words' visual other to an interrogation by refusing to picture the picture; she will not frame, name, or make the image speak. Referring to the writings of Antonin Artaud, Gilles Deleuze praises the capacity of art to offer "a new image of thought."1 This paper shows how, in refusing representation as its central operational mode, the poem reaches "to the edge of the thinkable" to demonstrate art's capacity to offer its own uncertain form of thinking that, in its dynamism, provisionality, and conditionality, brings into being "that which does not yet exist."2 In so doing, Carson's poem draws on and draws out interrelationships that heal the subject–object split Goodwin's art evokes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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33. A New Order of the Ages: Eschatological Vision in Virgil and Beyond*.
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Jackson, Peter
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ESCHATOLOGY in literature , *AENEAS (Legendary character) in literature , *EKPHRASIS , *SEALS (Numismatics) - Abstract
Proceeding from the Latin mottoes for the Great Seal of the United States, this paper explores the use and repercussions of eschatological themes in Virgil's poetry. A hitherto unnoticed datum in the history of the Great Seal's final design exemplifies how comparatively recent readings of the myth of Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl could inform our understanding of how the same myth was conceived in the Augustan Age. The discussion revolves around topics such as ekphrasis, the conflation of memoir and myth, and the eschatological significance of spatial and temporal transmission. The final part of the paper introduces some new thoughts concerning the ludi tarentini and the centennial life span. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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34. From Where Have I Eaten My Poetry?: On Bialik and the Maternal.
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Dekel, Mikhal
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POETRY (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism , *JEWISH poetry , *MOTHERHOOD in literature - Abstract
The paper examines the image of the maternal in Hayyim Nahman Bialik's poetry and short prose. Contrary to most prior critical evaluations, which have viewed the autobiographical or symbolic mother in Bialik's works as a monolithic representation of misery, helplessness, and self-sacrifice, this paper emphasizes the mother's portrayal as a feared, loathed, and highly ambivalent object of identification vis-à-vis the emergence of the romantic Hebrew male poet. In a reading that spans from Bialik's early lyric poetry to his mature epic "Yatmut" (Orphanhood), the author traces the development of the mother image over the course of the poet's adult life and compares it to maternal images in the works of other romantic poets (William Wordsworth, for example). She also draws parallels between the ambivalent knot through which the poet is bound to his mother, and a similar ambivalent knot that cements the bond between national poet and his "people." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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35. Favoring Nature: Herman Melville's “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander”.
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MILLER, ANDREW
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LITERARY criticism , *LITERATURE & photography , *MASCULINITY in literature , *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 , *POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
This paper involves a close reading of Herman Melville's poem “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander,” published in Melville's 1866 collection Battle-Pieces. Realizing that Melville's poem is one of the first descriptions (ekphrases) of a photograph in verse, the paper explores how Melville's poem uses physiognomy to describe the subject of the photograph: an American Civil War general, who is only identified as “the Corps Commander.” In this way, Melville's poem reflects the nineteenth-century philosophical and popular notions of photography. These notions came to regard photography as a Neoplatonic medium capable of recording and revealing the inner character of its subjects. Relying on these conceptions of photography, Melville's poem describes the photograph of the Corps Commander as having the power to reveal the Platonic absolute of American masculinity, and thus it comes to hail the photograph as a semi-sacred image that has the power to draw Anglo-Saxon American men into a common brotherhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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36. Idle Lustas.
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Stanley, EricG.
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SERMON (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism , *PRIDE & vanity in literature , *DESIRE in literature , *OLD English poetry , *ORIGINAL sin in literature - Abstract
The Exeter Book poem, “The Wonder of Creation”, named in the standard edition “The Order of the World”, is at the centre of the paper. It is a much-neglected Old English poem, yet interesting intellectually, and often difficult. Vanity is important in it, idle lustas “vain desires”, are central to it. There is more in it than the negative teaching that all life is vanity, for there is hope of a better realm. The temptation of Vainglory, the seventh Capital Sin, worthless glory, is a theme in Old English homiletic literature: the wish for false joys is a vanity. That is a theme in Cynewulf's poetry and in the prose of the Blickling Homilies. That a life of prayer and fasting enables man to fight the devil is a serious homiletic message. Our First Parents experienced unprofitable desires. Original Sin is mentioned in this paper, but not every healthy, hearty meal shares in that fundamental theological concept. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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37. ‘Fare Forward, Voyagers': Arriving at Posthumanism in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets.
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Saito, Nozomi
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POSTHUMANISM , *HUMANISM in literature , *POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
The term posthumanism does not come readily to mind in discussions of the modernist writer T.S. Eliot, but the present article argues that applying a posthumanist lens to readings of Eliot might offer up new ways of approaching his work. Critiques of humanism, the de-centering of the human, the notion of the subject as an empty center, and the re-configuration of consciousness are thematic axes where posthumanism and Eliot's Four Quartets can be seen to converge. These convergences show how Eliot might be considered as anticipating certain aspects of posthumanist thought. This paper argues that these posthumanist strategies serve the broader scope of Eliot's project in Four Quartets, by pointing the way toward the creation of a morally and socially responsible consciousness. It is this consciousness, envisioned by Eliot in response to the devastations of war and social unrest, that, I argue, could be applied to addressing the social upheavals of our own present-day global society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
38. Keats’ ‘Wild Indian Leaf’.
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Gourlay, Alexander S.
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POETRY (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism , *INDIANS (Asians) in literature , *PAPER -- History - Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the unfinished poem "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream," by John Keats, focusing on his use of the term wild Indian leaf. It is said that tree leaves were used as paper in India and that Keats would likely have used the word savage to refer to East Indians rather than to Native Americans.
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- 2012
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39. Re-reading postcolonial poetry: Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri.
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Bird, Emma
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POSTCOLONIAL literature , *NARRATIVE poetry , *WORLDLINESS , *POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
This paper considers how Arun Kolatkar’s 1976 Commonwealth Prize winning sequence Jejuri constitutes a challenge to the interpretation of postcolonial poetry. In particular, it is concerned with examining the interpretive demands Jejuri makes of its readers, arguing that its microcosmic spatial and temporal composition requires the reader to dispense with his or her own sense of exteriority to, or distance from, the text. At the same time, Kolatkar’s use of cross-cultural and trans-historical imagery situates Jejuri within a macrocosmic, global network that implicitly compels the reader to adopt an interpretive position undetermined by national or cultural preconceptions. Jejuri is thus a sequence that prompts specialist postcolonial readers to question the set of methodological practices they work within. Moreover, the interpretive demands made of the reader confirm the ethical imperative of the act of reading more generally, requiring the non-specialist audience to also abandon preconceptions about the meaning of the sequence. This paper draws on Edward Said’s notion of worldliness in order to suggest that Kolatkar’s sequence requires a particular kind of critical response: one that is attentive to the historical and cultural specificities of the text, and yet one that is able to acknowledge the wider political implications of reading the poems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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40. 'I lov'de thee best': London as Male Beloved in Isabella Whitney's 'The Manner of her Wyll'.
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Gleed, Paul
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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] - Published
- 2012
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41. Wild Charges: The Afro-Haitian ''Charge of the Light Brigade''.
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Hack, Daniel
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LINGUISTIC context , *INTERPRETATION (Philosophy) ,HAITIAN Revolution, 1791-1804 - Abstract
This essay argues against the historicist tendency to grant interpretive priority to a text's narrowly construed, originary historical context, and in favor of greater attention to historical processes and acts of de- and recontextualization. Taking as my example ''The Charge of the Light Brigade,'' I explore the uses to which this quintessentially topical poem was put in Frederick Douglass' Paper, where it was reprinted and mobilized in African American debates over antislavery violence and the relationship between race and culture. Interesting in their own right, these deployments of ''The Light Brigade'' shed light on the poem as well, relocating it within Tennyson's oeuvre and making visible its own strategy of deracializing recontextualization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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42. 'Ozymandias,' or De Casibus Lord Byron: Literary Celebrity on the Rocks.
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Mozer, HadleyJ.
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LITERARY criticism , *POETRY (Literary form) , *ENGLISH sonnets , *POETS in literature , *ROMANTICISM in literature , *19TH century English poetry - Abstract
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]
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- 2010
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43. An ecological design philosophy: Randolph T. Hester's Design for ecological democracy.
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White, James T.
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BOOKS , *DEMOCRACY , *NONFICTION ,REVIEWS - Abstract
This paper provides an extended review of Randolph T. Hester's Design for ecological democracy (2006). Initially, a brief introduction to the book, its author and the works position in the literature is given, before a broad summary of the book's central argument is provided. The paper then considers the three key themes Hester explores: enabling form, resilient form and impelling form. Through this discussion, linkages are made to wider concepts of ecology in planning practice as well as political and planning theory. The paper concludes that Design for ecological democracy provides not only an engaging philosophy for the future, but also a series of case study-supported interlinked practical methods for change for the way the built environment is shaped. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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44. Self and Community in the Poetry of Arthur Nortje: A Symptomatic Reading.
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Klopper, Dirk
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POETRY (Literary form) , *ALIENATION (Rhetoric) , *PRACTICAL politics , *IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
Many studies of Arthur Nortje's poetry have commented on the prevalence in his work of images of alienation, seeing this as a function either of political conditions in South Africa in his lifetime or of Nortje's exile from his home country. In this paper, I maintain that Nortje's depictions of alienation are more fundamental than suggested by earlier studies, inasmuch as his depictions point to primordial loss as constitutive of identity. I argue that because identity is posited in relation to the other, it is inescapably a function of division and displacement, and suggest that as a result of his specific history, Nortje was more directly aware of this dynamic than most. Nortje's self-reflexive awareness of the paradoxes of identity formation emerges in what I identify as symptomatic forms of communication that cut across, and mutually implicate, the life and the work. In support of my argument, the paper uses as its material two poems, one written shortly before Nortje's departure from South Africa in 1965, the other written shortly before his death in exile in 1970. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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45. Gadè deceptions and lies told by the ill: the Caribbean sociocultural construction of truth in patient-healer encounters.
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Massé, Raymond
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MEDICAL anthropology , *TRUTHFULNESS & falsehood - Abstract
A constructivist approach in medical anthropology suggests that the boundary between lies and truth in sickness narratives is thin. Based on fieldwork in the French (Martinique) and English (Saint-Lucia) Carribbean with gadé and quimboiseurs (local folk healers), this paper addresses the gap between naïve romanticism and radical cynicism in the anthropological analysis of patient-healer encounters. Is the sick person lying when she accuses evil spirits for her behaviour or sickness? Is the quimboiseur who is building a meaningful explanation or diagnosis simply a liar taking advantage of his client's credulity? The challenge for anthropology is not to determine whether or not a person is lying when attributing their ill fortune to witchcraft. Instead, in this paper, the author approaches lying as a language-game played by both patients and folk healers. Concepts of lying as games, tactical lies, pragmatic creativity, and constructive lies are introduced here as a perspective for a reconsideration of lying as a pertinent research object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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46. Coping with Research Evidence: a multimedia approach for further training of professional workers in the field of drugs and addiction.
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Westera, Wim and Niesink, Raymond J. M.
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EMPLOYEE training , *PROFESSIONAL employees , *DRUG abuse - Abstract
This paper outlines and discusses the use of a self-contained multimedia training program that allows professionals to improve their scientific thinking and reasoning skills. In many domains, scientific research produces new knowledge and insights that are of practical importance. Practitioners in the domains should constantly keep up with new research developments to anticipate practical implications or to participate in public debates. However, this often presumes a basic understanding of the applied research methods and the associated scientific reasoning. To support this understanding amongst professionals the Open University of the Netherlands developed a multimedia computer simulation program. The program design is strongly based on the principles of experiential learning, problem-based learning and contructivism. While using domain-specific cases, the computer program focuses on the cognitive aspects of scientific research, emphasizing the strategic decisions, domain-specific choices and discussions on validity that go with the process of designing and interpreting scientific research. So far, the program has been incorporated in a self-instructive course on neurobehavioural toxicology and addiction. In the present article, the design of the simulation is discussed and evaluated. This includes a description of the educational context and design philosophy. The paper provides examples of the Ecstasy case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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47. SCIENCE IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY: A POINT OF COMPARISON BETWEEN RAOUL SCHROTT AND DURS GRUNBEIN.
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Owen, Ruth J.
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POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
One of the most striking characteristics of Raoul Schrott's and Durs Grünbein's poetry is its thematisation of science. Schrott and Grünbein are remarkably different contemporary poets however: in this paper I suggest that their conflicting uses of science in poetry constitute a useful point of comparison. Schrott's scientists are poet-like figures who see the world in a new way, extending perspective and providing an example to the modern-day lyric subject. For Schrott, science is a set of metaphors, a benign language of poetry. In Grünbein's poetry, science is a threat, a dominant, sanitising influence on modern life which, far from raising up humans as adventurers and explorers, diminishes them. Science here reveals only the serious meaninglessness of life and is taken up in the poetry as bravura and provocation. In this paper I demonstrate these tendencies through close textual analysis of a variety of poems by Schrott and Grünbein which were written in the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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48. Defining Hong Kong poetry in English: an answer from linguistics.
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Lam, Agnes
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POETRY (Literary form) , *LITERATURE & society , *LANGUAGE & languages in literature , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
ABSTRACT: In recent years, interest in Hong Kong poetry in English has grown remarkably. Amidst all the excitement, the question has arisen as to how to define Hong Kong poetry in English. This paper is an attempt to provide an answer from linguistics. Subsumed under this controversy are three questions: What is poetry? What is good poetry? What is Hong Kong poetry? The first question has to take into account the revived interest in relating literary English to the general use of English. The second one relates to literary standards, which are inevitably tied to cultural norms of interaction and interpretation. The last one can be answered with reference to sociolinguistic concepts of speech communities. The paper deals briefly with the first two questions and focuses on the last. It affirms the existence of Hong Kong poetry in English. Each poet writing in or for Hong Kong may identify with more than one poetic community just as many users of English in Hong Kong may communicate with more than one group of English speakers. The application of linguistics to the task of defining Hong Kong poetry should offer insights towards a framework for identifying literary communities elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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49. Hong Kong writing and writing Hong Kong.
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Ho, Louise
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LITERATURE , *POETRY (Literary form) , *AUTHORSHIP - Abstract
ABSTRACT: This paper considers the site of Hong Kong as a growing one for works of the imagination. This globalized financial centre with its many contradictions and anomalies may yet be tamed by writing; and, in process of which, may arrive at a more definite sense of identity. As a sample of Hong Kong poetry in English, works of some local poets are introduced here, and these poems are included in the final section. Four poems by Louise Ho are included in the appendix to the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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50. The Reluctant Troubadour: Tracing the Oral Tradition in the Poetics of Juan Gelman.
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NICHOLSON, MELANTE
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POETICS , *ORAL tradition , *SEPHARDIM , *ARGENTINE poetry , *SPOKEN word poetry - Abstract
Juan Gelmans declared affinities with the Spanish mystic poets or with Sephardic texts, along with the titles of collections such as Traducciones, Notas, and Citas y comentarios, underscore the significant presence of the written tradition in his poetics. In this essay, however, I argue for the importance of the oral tradition in arriving at a fuller understanding of Gelmans work. Many of Gelmans poems have their roots in ancient expressive modes that connect poetry to song, lamentation, incantation or curse, modes that often operate in ways distinctfivm those of the written word. This line of inquiry leads us to reflect on oral poetry as a verbal act more commonly associated with a public voice than with a private one, given that orality implies by definition a communal exchange. In this paper I examine two particular manifestations of the oral tradition, the charm and the lament, in order to explore the complex relationships between orality and writing, and by extension, between the intimate and the communal voice in Gelmans work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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