Analyses the respective writings of the two poets and the deeper preoccupations they share, despite obviously distinguishing stylistic and thematic features, in particular their fascination with the ...processes of transformation and an exploration of the capacity language has to embody life at its most profound level, to sharpen individual sensibility and to extend it into a hoped-for reinvigoration of relationship at all levels. Considers two representative extended sequences : Hawken’s 'Small stories of devotion' (1991) and Harlow’s ‘Texts for composition’ from 'Vlaminck’s tie' (1985). Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth ...century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline.The Rise and Fall of Metertells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.
Základná otázka, na ktorú sa autor štúdie koncentruje, súvisí s problémom individualizácie ako podstatným mechanizmom kontroly v konštrukte kolektivisticky založenej spoločnosti. Kontrola ako ...mocenský nástroj je v totalitnej spoločnosti založená na radikálnej redukcii „pohybu existencie“, ktorá smeruje ku konštruktu „užitočného človeka“ a predstavuje ho predovšetkým v jeho sociálnej funkcii. Štúdia si v tejto súvislosti všíma a analyzuje diskurzívne nástroje a žánre, ktoré s tým súvisia (poetiku kontroly), to všetko s využitím konceptu disciplinárneho písma od Michela Foucaulta ako metodologického inštrumentu.
The relationship between the ballata (a secular, popular poetic form with a refrain, often performed orally) and the lauda (a religious musical composition that gained popularity in Tuscany and ...Umbria in the 1260s) have long been contested by historians of Italian literature. The case of Siculo-Tuscan poet Guittone d'Arezzo's five ballate-laude demonstrate the high level of cross-fertilization between the ballata and the lauda, as he uses the secular poem's refrain form in creating his poetics of praise. More specifically, Guittone uses the refrain form to enact, with an extraordinary level of poetic self-awareness, an anti-sequential, circular, never-ending poetics of praise for the divine. A close examination of these poems, then, provides new perspectives on orality and textuality in the early Italian lyric, as well as pointing to new poetic possibilities resulting from the fusion of the two. These possibilities would prove fruitful in later Italian lyric, even contributing to Dante's attempts at out-of-time poetics in the Paradiso.
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