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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

Lyric

open access: yes, 2009
Abstract This article looks at the historical interrelation of philosophy and lyric poetry. It explains that philosophers and lyric poets are alike because they both convey intelligible statements, employ formal structures and incorporate a social view from the outset.
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Borrowing another voice or the Cyrano complex

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2013
The voices in Tina Howe’s theatre run the gamut of register, from inarticulate or animal sounds to impassioned monologues and quoted verse. This article focuses on one of the playwright’s greatest successes, Painting Churches (1983) in order to ...
Julie Vatain
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Medvedkine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Chris Marker’s portrait of Alexandre Medvedkine in the 1993 film Le tombeau d’Alexandre/The Last Bolshevik is highly instructive of his own relationship to Soviet cinema.
Keeney, Gavin
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Acerca de la teoría de la lírica de František Miko

open access: yesPhilologia Romanistica Cultura
In the second half of the 20th century, František Miko was one of the most important linguists and literary scholars in Slovakia. The aim of this study is to explain the key aspects and specifics of his theory of lyric poetry. The focus will be mainly on
Dušan Teplan
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[Review of] Thurman B. O\u27Daniel, ed. Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
This volume of biographical and critical essays on the life and work of Jean Toomer is, as its Preface suggests, a comprehensive study. Its forty-six essays by thirty-nine scholars attest to its wide scope, and the extensive bibliography by the chief ...
Auser, Cortland P.
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Archetypal resonances and aesthetic resistance: Cezar Baltag’s poetry in the literary and political context of the generation of the resurrection of lyricism [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
This article examines the poetry of the Romanian 1960s generation, with a special focus on the work of Cezar Baltag, exploring how lyricism became a space for cultural and aesthetic resistance during a period dominated by censorship and ideological ...
Rodica GOTCA
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Ken Arvidson - 1938-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
in memoriam - Kenneth Owen Arvidson was a local man and, one is driven to suspect, knew everyone and everything of the wider Waikato region. Born in Hamilton, Ken became a member of the English Department at Waikato University in 1974 where we were lucky
Pilditch, Jan
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