The utterance, the body and the law: Seeking an approach to concretizing the sacredness of Maori language [PDF]
, 2007 In what possible ways does the sacredness of a language have application in an everyday, concrete sense – in a contemporary context? If we want to discuss the sacredness of language, can we conceptualise such sacrality in anything other than an ...
Mika, Carl Te Hira
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‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa [PDF]
, 2012 It has been argued, with reference to Venus and Adonis, that Shakespeare is the poet targeted specifically by Robert Southwell in his mournful stanza on love poetry in ‘The Author to the Reader’; this essay argues instead that Southwell's remark has a ...
Lawrence, Jason
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Gorod and grad in the Russian poetry of the 18th century
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2022 Urban motifs in Russian poetry have not yet become the subject of comprehensive investigation in terms of the evolution of poetic conceptualization of the world, the frequency, semantics and syntagmatics of the key lexemes — 'gorod' and 'grad'. Meanwhile,
Natalia V. Patroeva
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«Saup ben trovar e cantar»: oralità e performance tra lirica d'Oc e del Sì
Mantichora, 2020 This article analyses the oral and performative aspects of medieval lyric poetry in Languedoc and Italy. First, it investigates the contacts between the troubadours with their “secular” performance and the Church with its liturgical and paraliturgical ...
Paolo Pizzimento
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“Have the Menacing Alcaean Muses Blown the War Trumpets Again?” Two Versions of Jacobus Wallius’ Ode to Mathias Casimirus Sarbieviu [PDF]
, 2015 Item does not contain fulltextThe article discusses the Neo-Latin eulogy by the Flemish Jesuit Jacobus Wallius (1599-1690) to the famous Pole Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius (1595-1640).
Hulsenboom, Paul
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A Woman\u27s Kind of Love: Female Longing in the Tamil Alvar Poetry [PDF]
, 2007 In the eighth section of Andal\u27s Nacciyar Tirumoli, a woman calls to the clouds and bids them to take a message of love to her delinquent lover, Vishnu, here figured as the lord of Venkatam. In the opening verse of the decad, she begins by plaintively
Venkatesan, Archana
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‘The Way of Our Streets’: Exploring the Urban Sacred in Three Australian Poems
Religions, 2016 This article examines three contemporary Australian poems that concern themselves with matters of the sacred within the modern Australian city. Noting that Australian poetry and the sacred have often been studied in terms of the landscape, the article ...
Lachlan Brown
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Vaishnavism in Nammalvar’s Poem “Tiruviruttam”
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Nammalvar, a Tamil poet who lived in IX-X centuries, is revered as one of the great mystics of India. His four poetic works are equated with the sacred hymns and are part of the ritual worship in the temples of South India.
Sergey R. Moiseev
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POÉSIE ET RELIGION, LEURS RAPPORTS ET LEURS PARTICULARITÉS DANS LA VIE DE L’HOMME [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2014 This paper aims to study the permanent connection that exists between literature and especially poetry, and the sacred. It is a delicate issue which deserves to be treated anyway, due to this stable coexistence even though has been objected over the ...
Fabiola KADI
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Un poète latin castillan du début du XVIe siècle : Alvar Gómez de Ciudad Real
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 1996 On the basis of archive documents from the National Library (Madrid), the author studies the literary implications of Latin use in one of Alvar Gomez’s unpublished letter.
Claudine Sánchez Martel
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