‘Eastern’ Elegy and ‘Western’ Epic: reading ‘orientalism’ in Propertius 4 and Virgil’s Aeneid [PDF]
Dictynna, 2011 This article explores the extent to which the genres of epic and elegy can be considered ‘occidental’ and ‘oriental’ respectively. Such a polarity is apparently constructed in the ‘epic’ and ‘elegiac’ movements of Propertius 4.1, but it is also ...
Donncha O’Rourke
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Elegiac adaptations : resisting the closure of mourning in Elizabeth Robinson's Three Novels [PDF]
, 2015 textElizabeth Robinson's Three Novels (2011) is a lyric re-exploration of three Victorian novels: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1859-60), and George Gissing's Eve's Ransom (1895).
Cirit, Dilara Safiye
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“I listened to the confidences of shadow”: the elegy in the poetry of Jorge Gomes Miranda
Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2017 Analysis of the elegy in the poetry of the contemporary Portuguese poet Jorge Gomes Miranda, with emphasis on the dialogues that this poetry sets with the various moments of the history of elegy, from its origins in Ancient Greece to the contemporaneity.
Julio Cesar Rodrigues Cattapan
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‘For recuperation’: elegy, form, and the aleatory in B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates [PDF]
, 2014 B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates (1969) is British fiction's predominant attempt to embrace aleatorism and to subvert linear causality: the chapters are unbound, and the text invites the reader to shuffle them before reading.
Jordan, J
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'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi [PDF]
, 2014 It has been customary to see elegies by male poets as exceptional rather than typical poems. W. H. Auden wrote that ‘Poets seem to be more generally successful at writing elegies than at any other literary genre’.
Kennedy, David
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Elegy to an Oz Republic: First Steps in a Ceremony of Invocation towards Reconciliation [PDF]
, 2015 In 2012 the author completed a series of drawings that, while figurative in form, were structurally based on and derived their inspiration from Robert Motherwell’s abstract series, Elegies to the Spanish Republic (1963-1975). This wholesale 'borrowing', '
Bolt, Barbara
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The Elegiac Puella as Virgin Martyr [PDF]
, 2009 This is a postprint (author's final draft) version of an article published in the journal Transactions of the American Philological Association in 2009. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.0.0023 (login may be ...
Uden, James
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Two “Marienbad Elegies”: J.W. Goethe and W.G. Sebald [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2020 The article compares J.W. Goethe’s “Marienbad Elegy” (1823) and a poetic text with the same title written in 1999 by W.G. Sebald. “Marienbad Elegy” by Goethe is a precedent text of German culture, its historical and literary authority being additionally ...
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Motif of Mask in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Great Elegy for John Donne’
Научный диалогThis article offers an interpretation of the well-known poem by Joseph Brodsky, ‘Great Elegy for John Donne’ (1963). While traditionally elegy is analyzed in comparison with texts of the English medieval poet and preacher, where echoes of poetic and ...
O. V. Bogdanova, T. N. Baranova
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إسهام الشيخ أصغر علي الروحي في الرثاء: دراسة تحليلية
الآفاق اسلامی و تحقیقی مجلہ, 2023 Asghar Ali Roohi is commonly known for his services and involvement in the field of Arabic Litrature. He made huge literary contribution by merging Arabic language in his works along with numerous kinds of literature.
Dr. Fakhar ul-zaman, Dr. Najma Nahid
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