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The romantics in the Wes t are paying close attention to Eas tern mys tical literature and poets such as Hafiz, Rumi, and Sa'adi. The intellectual similarities of Goethe, the great German poet in the 19th century, with Ibn-al-'Arabī, an Islamic mys tic and philosopher, and the common characteris tics of the beloved in Goethe's Wes t-Eas tern Divan and Ibn 'Arabī's Tarjoman Al-Ashwaq, have made some call them "spiritual brothers". The purpose of this s tudy is to explain the role of earthly love in human spiritual transcendence in the lyric poems of two great Arab and German poets. This research, using content analysis method and the approach of the American school of comparative literature, examines the characteris tics of the two beloveds in Ibn-al-'Arabī's and Goethe's work, namely, Nizam and Marianne(Zulikha,) and how this earthly love has become the basis for transcendental love for the two poets. The results of this comparison show that although there is no mention of Goethe's acquaintance with Ibn' Arabi in the former's biography, there are similarities in issues such as unity of exis tence, transcendental love, and the union of the lover and beloved. For the two poets, love is the ladder for their spiritual excellence. In the eyes of the two poets, love turns any plurality into unity and reveals the beloved in different shapes and forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines contemporary Israeli poetry by post-Soviet Jews who migrated to Israel after the collapse of the USSR. Complicating the dominant assessment of post-Soviet literature in Israel as an isolated and “ghettoized” phenomenon, an analysis of the poetry by Soviet-born, Hebrew-language poets Rita Kogan, Alex Rif, and Arik Eber reveals the strong influence of Hebrew literature in general, and of the Mizrahi poets of Ars Poetika in particular. Through close textual analysis and interviews with Rif, Kogan, and Eber, the article demonstrates how their verse has adopted and adapted the dominant building blocks of Ars Poetika—resistance to Ashkenazi hegemony, protest against exclusion and discrimination, and embrace of one’s own culture and identity— to the situation of Russian-speaking Jews in Israel. Ultimately, the chapter shows how the cultural affinity with poets of Ars Poetika allows post-Soviet immigrants to both construct themselves as part of the Israeli-Jewish population and at the same time express their post-Soviet particularity, thereby bringing into relief the two halves of the poets’ hyphenated Russian-Israeli cultural identities. Reflecting on this cultural cross-pollination, the chapter concludes by reading the poetry of Rif, Kogan, and Eber as part and parcel of contemporary Israeli literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Shaddock, to use a concept from Thomas Ogden amongst others "Campo dei Fiori" exists in the "third" position - 'it emerges as a new term between the poet's witnessing and the world's sorrow'. In the opening chapter of I Poetry and Psychoanalysis i David Shaddock is clear that he wants ' ... to extend our understanding of the therapy process by looking at it through the lens of poetics' (p. 4). Shaddock makes use of this thinking in his compelling chapter, 'Standing against silence: Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov and poetry of witness'. Shaddock quotes Milosz on the tensions involved in the poetry of witness where the poet has to ' ... remain aware of the weight of fact without yielding to the temptation to become only a reporter' (p. 41-42). [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 3 "Network Analysis Techniques Applied to Dictionaries for Identifying Semantics in Lexical Spanish Collocations" by I. Sánchez-Berriel et al., is based on content analysis of words combinations in graph databases. Lexical networks of collocates can be explored by methods for graph partitioning, for example, Girvan-Newman algorithm implemented in R package igraph. Chapter 4 "Collocation Graphs and Networks: Selected Applications" by V. Brezina describes an analytic approach for studying networks of discourses in newspapers texts, language learning, and lexicography. [Extracted from the article]