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Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story
European Journal of American Studies, 2015 This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction.
Pascale Antolin
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Threnodic Elegy in Sparta [PDF]
, 2011 The new Simonides elegy for the dead at Plataea fits within an obscure but discoverable tradition, associated especially with Sparta, of public songs of lamentation that celebrated fallen warriors at festivals like the Gymnopaidiai.
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Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThe article considers the “genre memory” as a theoretical notion on the material of elegy established in Russian literature in the 2nd half of the 20th - 21st centuries (A. Dragomoschenko, B. Popov, S. Gandlevsky) and in the works of modern Tatar poets F.
Alsu Z. Khabibullina
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W. B. Yeats’ “September 1913” as an Elegy: Generic Deviation
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2018 A literary work is most often characterised by formal, thematic and stylistic features. The distinction between these is never obvious, though. In a Petrarchan sonnet, for instance, the form is closely tied to the theme (tension in the octet and relief ...
Lamia Jaoua Sahnoun
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The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2018 The paper explores the evidence for the archaic performance context or contexts of Archilochus’ and Solon’s trochaic tetrameter catalectic poems, noting that they were chanted rather than sung or spoken and thus different from both elegy and iambic ...
Ewen Bowie
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Light Tactics: The Poem as Index
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 40-56, October 2025.
Kelly Hoffer
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, 1985 Medium: etchingMedium: aquatintprintssigned and dated."Elegy" [2020.0185.000.000], Kahan, LouisExtent: plateExtent: sheet ...
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, 2020 Firefly Elegy uses a 12-note melodic theme, which through the course of the piece undergoes a series of transformations - mirroring the metamorphosis that takes place over a firefly's brief life span.
Cohen, Gilad
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American Elegy The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
American Elegy reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Max Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin and Bradstreet.
Cavitch, Max.
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