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Finding Joy and Elegy: Poetry from Pandemic
Amidst the despair, desperation, death, and economic deprivation of the pandemic, poetry—and creative outlets more broadly—have arisen to assist us in both making sense of the world at large, as well as addressing our own struggles during and from these ...
Frank Karioris
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ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Aulodes and Rhapsodes: Performance and Forms of Greek Elegy from Mimnermus to Hermesianax
The present discussion reconsiders Hermesianax Leontion fr. 7.35–46 Powell (3.35–46 Lightfoot) as offering a synthesis and aesthetic evaluation of the tradition of Colophonian elegy from the archaic to the Hellenistic period.
Livio Sbardella
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Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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The ritual ceremony of Ghanbar’s Elegy has been held in Fasa city for about one century. Mulla Mohammad Ismail Matbuei, who was one of the tragedians in Ta’zieh, eulogists, and Ta’zieh director, has written the poems of this version of the Ta’zieh in ...
Leila Taghavi
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Analyzing Roleplaying Games as Pedagogical Tools for Disrupting Literary Whiteness
[Left] The sailors see in the distance a ghostly ship, scene from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T. Coleridge, published by Harper und Brothers, New York, 1876 (wood engraving). [Right] Rime of the Modern Mariner, speculative reimagining of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T.
Karis Jones +3 more
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Ritual and Assemblage: Reading Hybrid Elegy Through Changing American Death Practices
In American Hybrid (2009), Cole Swenson describes hybrid poetics as a reconciliation between the two dominant poetic traditions of the 20th century, which might be called lyric and experimental (xx–xxi).
Anastasia Nikolis
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Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice
Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
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Antony Deschamps - Elegiac Poet in the Context of National Poetry
The question of the place occupied in the history of French poetry by Anthony Deschamps (Antony Deschamps, 1800-1869), a romantic poet almost forgotten already at the end of the 19th century, is examined.
V. I. Pinkovsky
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