Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. …”
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Kissing the naked Novomeský (an interpretative probe into an unpublished chapter from Janko Silan’s book Dom opustenosti [House of abandonment]) by Andrej Gejdoš

“…Among these texts is a previously unpublished fragment When we entered there…, which is unique in the context of the works of Slovak Catholic modernists as it explores the theme of two people of the same gender kissing, both of whom were prominent figures in the literary life of the time (the author of the text Janko Silan and the poet Laco Novomeský). This article aims to interpret the text, particularly through the lens of the cultural perception of the kiss and to outline certain aspects of the relationship between Silan and Novomeský.…”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“…Long before he became a star film actor, Adébayọ́ Fa ̀ ́leti’s impressive body of works ́ as a poet, theatre artiste, journalist, translator, broadcaster, writer and culture administrator had firmly established his vast knowledge and mastery of Yorùbá language and philosophy. …”
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Die buitebladkunswerk by Maritha Snyman

“…In the rest of the article the cover designs of four volumes of poetry, of Afrikaans poet Johann de Lange's first, are discussed 88 Iconic representations of the verbal texts. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…Ọbasa’s poetry. As an ingenious poet, Obasa adroitly blends the tropes of didacticism and philosophical tenets in his poetry. …”
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CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY: TEXT – CODE – SYSTEM OF REPETITIONS AND KEY-NAMES by Artyom V. Drobyshev

“…The mechanism of functioning of these codes with a system of signs is described in the example of interaction of texts G.B. Zdanovich and poet M.P. Nikulina about «Arkaim». This is seen as the key reason for a great variety of interpretations of modern archaeological sites and text. …”
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Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“… The main purpose of inquiries undertaken in this study is to present a synthesis of the views of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and the Italian thinker Emanuel Severino on nature and technology, and to analyze the contemporary manifestations of the re-sacralization of nature in many ecological currents, as discussed in her studies by the French philosopher Chantal Delsol. …”
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De l’Esthétisation à l’anti-symbolisme : les évolutions du corps chez William Carlos Williams by Samantha Lemeunier

“…This subversion of physical canons marks the singularity of the williamsian style while contaminating the textual body as the poet notably reworks various poetic genres such as the sonnet. …”
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«Вот скажем лицом я в Китае». Стереотипы и имаготипы Китая, китайца и китайского в практике обращения к чужому в геопоэтике и геоэстетике Дмитрия Пригова... by Rainer Grübel

“…Stereotypes and Imagotypes of China, the Chinese Man and Woman and the Chinese in the Practice of Addressing the Alien in the Geo-poetics and Geo-esthetics of Dmitrij Prigov The article considers the circulation and the role of the motifs China, the Chinese man/woman and the Chinese as concepts of the other/strange(r), which negatively correspond to the concepts of the self in the work of the Russian poet, writer, artist and producer of performances Dmitrij Prigov. …”
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Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered by Cristina Pividori

“…Contemporary poets Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay have selected these poems and have contributed their own pieces in response. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Scott McClanahan, rising star of the US Indie Lit world and "Poet Laureate of Real America" (Moran), writes miasmic chronicles of life in a West Virginian holler. …”
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Raising a thousand Tutu voices: Reflections on the Truth to Power exhibition

“…The example and the courage of the poet and journalist, Antjie Krog, who covered the TRC hearings and who is still speaking poetry to power as a public intellectual, are used to reflect on the author’s own culpability and that of other White Afrikaans-speaking South Africans and their involvement in the TRC process. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…In these narrative retellings, motivation is constantly offered to a child in need of acculturation in the national poet’s work (in other, more contemporary words, in need of cultural capital). …”
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Perception and treatment of melancholy in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) by Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë

“… Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) was a medieval nun and an abbess, a mystic, a composer, a poet, an author of medical treatises, and one of the few women at the time who wrote both theological and scientific texts. …”
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Le conflit renaissant de la figure et de l’abstraction dans Labyrinthe, journal mensuel des Lettres et des Arts (octobre 1944-décembre 1946) by Blandine Delhaye

“…Those who most assiduously frequented the editorial office in the Place du Molard in Geneva and took part in the conception of the journal were Swiss poet and painter Roger Montandon, Genevan philosopher Jean Starobinski, and artists Giacometti, Balthus and Brassaï. …”
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RUKUN NASUTION (1928-1998) AND HIS POETRY CORPUS: A Preliminary Study by Hasan Asari, Yusnaili Budianti

“…This study is an initial survey that aimed to introduce the poet called Rukun Nasution and map the corpus of his poetry. …”
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Ovid Among the Floating Garbage: Derek Mahon on Recycling and Exile by Peter Kelly

“…This article questions why Mahon turns time and again to Ovid when grappling with environmental destruction and when seeking to establish what role if any the poet has in cataloguing and combatting the climate crisis. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Thanks to the female gaze, the poetic evocation of a lesbian love, from its blossoming to its wilting, then to its death, opens up a reflection on a triple isolation: that of the lesbian woman, that of the creative woman, that finally of the elderly woman – three images of women stifled in their desire and their creative impulse, which merge in fine, in an autobiographical burst, in a troubled and double image: that of the author and, like a reflection in the mirror, of the poet Sophia Parnok, her former partner. Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative.…”
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TROIS POÈMES DE STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ: A DEBUSSY-RAVEL COMPARISON by Attila FODOR

“…Despite their large number of mélodies and a particular affinity for the symbolist poet, the relatively unnoticeable examples of settings based on his oeuvre shows an avoidance of the greatly musical and hermetic verses, characteristic for his mature style. …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…After his return, the poet published A Season in the Alps and Other Poems (1948). …”
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