All things poetic and all things verse.
Manfred Engel deposited Mediating the Dream / Les genres et médias du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020 (Cultural Dream Studies; 4) — Contents and Preface in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoRepresentations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]
Carlos Pittella deposited Marino, a tragedy, part I—Datable fragments and lists in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThe English dramas of Fernando Pessoa are virtually unknown. Pessoa’s archive includes fragments of Marino, Prometheus Rebound (or Revinctus), and Duke of Parma—three dramatic projects that remain almost entirely unpublished. This paper is the first of two aiming to present Marino, the earliest of these English dramas. The editorial int…[Read more]
Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Lecture: Multilingualism as a Stimulus to Islamic Literary Theory (2019) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agofile is too large for this repository so I list the links below:
Link to lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtDwVTndx4&t=43s
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/unibirmingham/multilingualism-as-a-stimulus-to-islamic-literary-theoryIn her lecture, Gould discusses how cross-cultural encounters have generated new literary theories and new…[Read more]
Miklos Mezosi deposited Két új Szapphó-vers első magyar fordítása in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months agoThis paper contains two poems by Sappho discovered on papyrus in 2014, in the Greek original with a facing Hungarian translation by the author, along with an essay on Sappho and her historical and cultural context.
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Miklos Mezosi deposited Sally Dalton-Brown, Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1997) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months agoBook review of S. Dalton-Brown’s monograph on Alexander Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin. Published by Bristol Classical Press in Critical Studies in Russian Literature. Series Editor: Neil Cornwell. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1997.
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Inspired and Multiple: On Poetry and Co-Translation,” Overland (2019) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis co-authored essay reflects on the process of co-translation as a form of co-authorship, drawing on examples taken from Persian poetry and the history of Russian-English literary translation.
Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoIn his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
Sasha Zamler-Carhart deposited The Goths & Other Stories in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 6 months agoIn the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months along the barren confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum and just kinda crash and charge their phones. Closer to home, Orpheus walks Eurydice through a suburban…[Read more]
Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Review of The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoWendy Laura Belcher has done her cultural work by queering Mother Walatta Petros’s life in this one of a kind book. The struggles of Mother Walatta Petros and her nuns and their heirs’ reluctance to enunciate same sex desire is brought out well in this book and its review in Prabuddha Bharata which has not missed an issue from 1896 to date. The…[Read more]
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Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Review of On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C G Jung’s Lecture Gérard de Nerval’s ‘Aurélia’ in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months agoThe neo-Kantian Susan Neiman pointed out to this reviewer the danger that Carl Jung studies pose to contemporary scholars. It is keeping in mind Neiman’s cautionary advice that this review establishes Jung’s contributions to Romanticism. “[Craig] Stephenson’s analysis of Aurélia has now superseded Arthur Lovejoy’s (1873–1962) and Mario Praz’s…[Read more]
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Carlos Pittella deposited Portugal, o primeiro aviso de Mensagem: 106 documentos inéditos in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months agoWhen we think we know Fernando Pessoa, a new surprise arises: this time, one related to the genesis of Mensagem, the most established and celebrated book of the Pessoan canon. That book, published in 1934 with a title only finalized at the time of the typographical proofs, was initially called Portugal—an inscription dating from 1910, when P…[Read more]
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Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Review of Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoThis review shows how all journeys are not futile; how human frailty makes us holy, in a certain sense. This review shows the great depth of the sovereignty of the Good. And how Professor Lane shows us that while all feet are clay; some realise so and go beyond their own frailties to tap into that which can only be experienced. Professor Lane…[Read more]
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Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Review of Between Levinas and Heidegger in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoThis is a comprehensive critique of the Heidegger problem and while putting forward a critique of Heidegger; it establishes the sanctity of Levinas. In the process of doing so; the reviewer touches on the problems of not considering Edith Stein in a book of this sort. When I got my tenure in India, one wisecrack on the board of interviewers asked…[Read more]
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Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Review of Agamben in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoAgamben is slowly entering the English academy. This review shows how Agamben’s understanding of poetry can and should inform the eschatological nature of the lyric. The review does its cultural work by rethinking poetry and the poetic impulse. The book under review by Claire Colebrook and Jason Maxwell, prepare us for messianic times and shows…[Read more]
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Manfred Engel deposited Writing the Dream / Écrire le rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017 (Cultural Dream Studies; 1) — Contents and Preface in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoWriting a factual or fictional dream is a difficult task as its ›otherness‹ will challenge all of our accustomed modes of narration. So the existence of established cultural and textual patterns is a welcome help. This collection of essays describes these patterns, their historical and individual modifications and their relation to the dre…[Read more]
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited اخلاق زیست محیطی یا انسان محوری: بوم نقد تطبیقی با نگاهی به سپهری و امرسن Environmental Ethics versus Anthropocentrism: Comparative Ecocriticism in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months agoاز رویکردهای تازه در حوزۀ نقد ادبی رویکرد بومنقد است که به بررسی رابطۀ میان انسان و طبیعت در ادبیات می پردازد. هرچند تعداد قابل توجهی از آثار نظری و کاربردی در حوزۀ بومنقد منتشر شده است، اما تاکنون توجه چندانی به پژوهش بومنقد تطبیقی نشده است. پژوهش پیشرو تلاشی است برای گشودن باب چنین پژوهش هایی به زبان فارسی در فضای دانشگاهی ایران. شا…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Nimā Yushij in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoNimā Yushij (1897-1960), the first major modern Persian poet, developed a poetic form later called New Poetry, Free Poetry or Nimāic Poetry to remove the restrictions of traditional rhyme and meter. Although he was not the only or even the first trying to modernize Persian poetry, he was the one on whom was bestowed the title “the father of mod…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited شاعر در آینۀ تصویر: بررسی طرح روی جلد ترجمههای اشعار والت ویتمن در ایران in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoبخشی از مطالعات ادبی بینارشتهای شامل بررسی ارتباط میان ادبیات و تصویر میشود. در این زمینه ارتباط میان ادبیات و سینما شناختهشدهترین حوزۀ پژوهشی است که تعداد چشمگیری اثر پژوهشی، اعم از رساله و مقاله، در این حوزه نگاشته شده است. در همین زمینه میتوان به ارتباط میان ادبیات و نقاشی اشاره کرد که در سالهای اخیر شاهد تعداد انگشتشماری اثر تحقیق…[Read more]
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