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Language and Meter
In Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a variety of poetic traditions, including the Homeric epics, the hieratic hymns of the Rgveda, the Gathas of the Avesta, early Latin and the Sabellic compositions, Germanic alliterative verse, Insular Celtic court poetry, and Tocharian metrical texts. The studies treat a broad range of topics, including the prehistory of the hexameter, the nature of Homeric formulae, the structure of Vedic verse, rhythm in the Gathas, and the relationship between Germanic and Celtic poetic traditions. The volume contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetic form, and how they change over time.
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Imitate Anacreon
Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist Anacreon, they are now regarded instead as imitations of Anacreontic lyricism. This volume presents the latest findings on the language, poetology, tradition, and reception of this lyrical collection.
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Poetry and voice: a book of essays
This is a book of essays which fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Some contributors focus on critical explorations of voice in work by poets such as John Ashbery, Simon Armitage, Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy, Arun Kolatkar, Don McKay, and on the musical voices of the lyric tradition and of poetry itself.
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Radwa Ashour, African American Criticism, and the Production of Modern Arabic Literature
In 1973, at the suggestion of her mentor Shirley Graham Du Bois, the Egyptian scholar, activist, teacher, and novelist Radwa Ashour enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to study African American literature and culture. Ashour’s 1975 dissertation “The Search for a Black Poetics: A Study of Afro-American Critical Writings,” along with her 1983 autobiography, Al-Rihla: Ayyam taliba misriyya fi amrika [The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student’s Memoirs in America] , specifically engage with debates that emerged at the First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists in September 1956 between African Americans and others from the African diaspora (most notably Aimé Césaire) regarding the applicability of the “colonial thesis” to the United States. This article argues that Ashour’s early engagement with African American cultural politics are formative of her fiction, particularly her 1991 novel, Siraaj: An Arab Tale, which examines overlapping questions of slavery, empire, and colonialism in the Arab world.
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Revisiting the gap between words and reality : critical reflections on the symposium 'Poetry as social action'
Summarises and comments on the symposium, University of Auckland, 27 Sep 2013. Argues for a more robust and engaged set of principles for relating poetry to social action than what he perceived amongst the presentations he observed. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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On Loss and Not Losing It: Neruda, Mistral, and Zurita in the Postdictatorship
In an August 1989 conference titled Encuentro con Gabriela Mistral (Encounter with Gabriela Mistral) held in Santiago, Chilean critic and philosopher Patricio Marchant presented a paper titled Desolacion (Desolation). Like all conference participants, Marchant must have been keenly aware of and shaken by the surrounding sociopolitical context: some months before the conference, in October 1988, a general plebiscite had been held on orders from the military Junta, which asked the Chilean people to vote Yes or No on an eightyear presidential term for Augusto Pinochet, and thus effectively on the continuation of the Junta's military rule, which had held political control over Chile since the 1973 coup. Contrary to the Junta's prospect, the results of the plebiscite showed the opposition coalition (united as the Concertacion de Partidos por el No [Coalition of Parties for the No]) as having received the majority of votes, paving the way for a transition to civil government and, more concretely, for presidential elections to be held in December of 1989.
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Fuera esas manos tintas en sangre. La poesía antiimperialista de Raúl González Tuñón
Este artículo revisa críticamente la producción de Raúl González Tuñón de las décadas del cincuenta y sesenta, a la luz de los programas de acción que, en el contexto de la Guerra Fría, formula el Partido Comunista. En esta dirección, se analizan, en primer lugar, los textos programáticos del autor, en los cuales explicita un proyecto literario para los países latinoamericanos, sometidos a la amenaza imperialista. A partir de los lineamientos de ese proyecto se leen, luego, los poemas del autor como una intervención ligada a las consignas partidarias de la defensa de la libertad cultural y la lucha por la paz.
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Shakespeare's political wisdom
Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics.
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