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“Some Ghostly Queen of Spades”: John Keats’s Images of Spectrality
In the present paper I aim at exploring Keats’s use of Gothic and grotesque images in his three famous poems: “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil,” “The Eve of Saint Agnes” and the unfinished “The Eve of St. Mark.” I argue that there is a consistent pattern of imagery in Keats’s poetry that combines these two categories, and this imagery revolves around an idea of a spectral presence, or a “life-in-death” existence. The mingling of these two literary and aesthetic modes allows for a powerful articulation of anxieties relating to mortality, a confrontation with the inevitability of death and decay of the human body, and the uneasy, tentative hope for the afterlife.
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Man and Horse in Byron’s Poetry
In his poetry and in letters Byron occasionally writes of horses and uses the imagery of horse riding. This essay examines Byron’s representation of human-horse interactions and the ways in which the poet deploys the images of horse riding in The Giaour, Mazeppa, and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. I would like to suggest that Byron’s representation of horses may be seen as figuratively reflective of his poetic development from the passion-spurred ride of the Giaour to the harmonious bond between horse and human that Mazeppa learns through his wild ride.
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El hilo y la pluma: diversas perspectivas hacia el tejer de un texto poético
Arachne, Penelope, Circe, Ariadne, and Moiras share the same attribute: the thread. These female figures from Greco-Roman mythology have become archetypes of women with the needle. The mythical spinners and their sewing have led to the coining of one of the obsessive metaphors of modern criticism: the relationship between the fabric and the literary text. We can observe it, especially, in contemporary poetry, in which the creation of the poetic texture – obvious is the metapoetic and self-referential background here – frequently constitutes one of the main themes. The objective of this article is to present different perspectives on the metaphorical role of mythological weavers as woman creating poetic text in the lyrical work of Aurora Luque (1962), Chantal Maillard (1951), and Sonia Bueno (1976).
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Nierzeczywisty świat białych szczytów. Kraina śniegu i Czarodziejska góra w kontekście malarskiej poetyki, heterotopii, czasu i przestrzeni
This article explores the similarities between Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. The analysis focuses on the presented world and its space-time properties, the poetics of description, and how these elements transform in the perceptions of the main characters, Shimamura and Hans Castorp. The article also compares the demeanors of both characters, their attitudes toward their places of residence, their relationships with the women they encounter, their lifestyles, and their perspectives on the social world and human activity within it. The author examines how the dynamic between the male observer and the observed woman contributes to the narrative of both works and relates to themes of beauty, love, life, and death. The text applies Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and Foucault’s notion of heterotopia.
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IMAGEN DE LOS GITANOS EN LA GITANILLA DE MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Y EL DONADO HABLADOR: VIDA Y AVENTURAS DE ALONSO, MOZO DE MUCHOS AMOS DE JERÓNIMO DE ALCALÁ YÁÑEZ Y RIVERA
The present paper examines the portrayal of the Romani people in two literary works from the Spanish Golden Age: “La Gitanilla” by Miguel de Cervantes and “El donadohablador: vida y aventuras de Alonso, mozo de muchos amos” by Jerónimo de Alcalá. Through a comparative approach, the study explores elements such as the physical and moral depiction of Romani characters, their values and aspirations, lifestyle, origins as an ethnic group, and the distinctive features of their social organization in order to construct a more complex image of the Roma based on these two works.
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Taoizm w poezji pól i ogrodów Tao Yuanminga
This article analyzes three representative works of Tao Yuanming through the lens of Taoist elements present in his poetry, demonstrating the significant influence of this philosophical and religious tradition on his life. Tao Yuanming remains relatively understudied in Polish literary scholarship; therefore, this article references all previous publications on his work. Additionally, it provides an overview of his biography and historical context, clarifies inconsistencies found in earlier studies, and examines key Taoist principles essential for understanding the role of this philosophy in his life and literary output.
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Women as Agents of Social Change: A Critical Interrogation of Mariama Bâ’s Une Si Longue Lettre and Sembène Ousmane’s Les Bouts de Bois Dedieu
Since literature is believed to be a tool for social transformation, this study interrogates whether or not the efforts of militant women could demolish oppressive forces that have caused hunger and poverty in many African countries. The study aims at connecting literature with social realities in human society to strengthen its functionality. Postcolonial theory and Marxism set the premises for discussions in the study as theoretical framework while the French explication de texte is adopted as research methodology. Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre and Sembène Ousmane’s Les bouts de bois de Dieu are purposively selected for the study. The two novels are selected based on the inclination of the novelists towards denouncing social imbalances in African society. Finding from the study suggest that both collective and individual struggles or agitations against exploitative and oppressive tendencies are capable of bringing progressive social change to Africa. The study, therefore, concludes that whether old or new, literary texts remain relevant and significant in shaping human minds and guiding their operations now and forever.
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“No Magic in Being Lost”: Conservative Sentiment in Ling Ma’s Severance
Ling Ma’s post-apocalyptic novel Severance (2018), like many examples of the genre, has generally been interpreted as a progressive work. This essay contends, however, that it expresses a conservative disposition as English philosopher Michael Oakeshott defined it, with clear preferences for the familiar over the unknown and a disdain for utopias. A close reading of Severance through the lens of Oakeshott’s philosophy reveals that change is shown as negative, since both the world after a deadly pandemic strikes and pre-2010 New York are portrayed as diminished by disruption ‒ and as devoid of a sense of adventure that might otherwise turn disruption interesting. Furthermore, the novel warns of ideology and teleology: the apocalypse remains unexplained and is not used to communicate criticism or lessons, while the progressive and totalitarian characters that aim to impose a grand vision on the rest are ridiculed, and the personal and the private appear as tantamount. Finally, laissez-faire capitalism and the neo-liberal state are criticized not so much for their inherent exploitation, but for forcing a lifestyle onto people that is without alternative, that they did not choose, that (through the hegemony of work) leads to a profanation of life, and that causes an erosion of tradition.
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Hotels, Rooms and Beds: A Journey into Carol Ann Duffy’s Haunted Places
In this article, I will dissect four poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in order to highlight the theme of “hauntedness” – unheimlichkeit, which engulfs the stories and personae presented in the poems. By analysing the disturbing presence of “ghosts” and the merging of past, present and future into one haunting repetitive space-time, I will reveal all the uncanny elements featured in these brilliant poems by Carol Ann Duffy.
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