This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the “captionlessness” of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion “‘Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps’: 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) is considered one of the most important Italian poets of the past century. Born in Paris, she had to flee to Switzerland and then to the U.S. after the murder of her father and her uncle at the hands of Fascist militias. Back in Italy in the late 40s, in 1950 she settled in Rome, where she would spend the rest of her…[Read more]

در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]