W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…Some of Merwin’s dismissive attitude toward Whitman was inherited from two of Merwin’s acknowledged poetic mentors, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, who both also had mostly negative attitudes toward Whitman. …”
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Words as the Measure of Measure for Measure: Shakespeare’s Use of Rhetoric in the Play by Jean-Marie Maguin

“…An inclination to resort to similes (fully formulated comparisons) rather than metaphors (incomplete comparisons) – see Julius Caesar for example – imposes on speech a hefty, didactic structure, well away from the condensation and speed with which metaphors key us into a poetic alternative to daily reality.…”
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Imaginaires de nature sauvage dans la théorie et la pratique de Gilles Clément by Camilla Barbero

“…This research explores imaginary perspectives nourished by ancient memories of these new landscapes by conducting a case study of the poetic vision of the gardener and landscape architect Gilles Clément. …”
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Sisyawaytii tarawaytii : sifflements serpentins et autres voix d’esprits dans le chamanisme quechua du haut Pastaza (Amazonie péruvienne) by Andréa-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca

“…A linguistic analysis, sensitive to the discursive variations, shows that this technique of quotation of a non-human voice, observed during the transmission of ritual songs, has a remarkable echo in its own poetic structure. Through the study of these enunciative devices, the author demonstrates that the indexical use of sound symbolism plays a key role in the performance achieved, allowing the hunter-shaman to lend his voice to the spirits invoked. …”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…While glaciers become the sublime site of Romantic poetic epiphany, Mary Shelley subverts the euphoric associations of pristine settings by choosing to locate a crucial confrontation between creature and creator in the Alps, then by opting for Walton’s search for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage as a frame for Victor’s narrative. …”
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Langage et action paysagère : conscience du paysage et de l’environnement dans l’œuvre de Natsume Sōseki  by Agathe Tran

“…I analyse how this writer enhances the landscape through a profusion of poetic and pictorial inter-cultural references and how he also de-constructs it in a post-modern fashion by modernising the homology between nature, language, and national identity. …”
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A Narrative Inquiry to Explore Lived Experiences of Women Pursuing PhDs in South Africa by Lianne Keiller, Abigail Ruth Dreyer

“…The collaborative sharing of these poetic pieces highlights new ways to actively engage outside of the existing closed communities. …”
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言語と、風景を形作る行為: 夏目漱石の作品における風景および環境への意識 by Agathe Tran アガタ・トラン

“…I analyse how this writer enhances the landscape through a profusion of poetic and pictorial inter-cultural references and how he also de-constructs it in a post-modern fashion by modernising the homology between nature, language, and national identity. …”
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Des colonnes pour des vertus dans l’art communal italien du xive siècle by Bertrand Cosnet

“…It then examines the long liturgical, scholastic and poetic tradition that, from Saint Gregory the Great to Saint Thomas Aquinas, establishes a comparison between virtues and constituent elements of ecclesial architecture. …”
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Christian Felix Weiße’s Poetry in Latvian and Estonian Literature by Ave Mattheus, Pauls Daija

“…At the same time, these translations demonstrated the poetic possibilities of Estonian and Latvian languages. …”
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La langue, matière à machines by Pierre Thévenin, Emmanuel Ducourneau, Anthony Stavrianakis

“…This inscription is explored in its poetic and symptomatic aspects, as well as by way of a “machined” cartography. …”
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« The glittering game » : le jeu des choses dans A Lost Lady et My Mortal Enemy de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…In A Lost Lady as in My Mortal Enemy, Cather thus develops a theatrical and poetic play with and around things.…”
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Somatic Montage for Immersive Cinema by Chamier-Waite Clea von

“…We propose somatic montage as a model for developing new poetic structures in time-based works that inhabit a three-dimensional, architectonic space – a space of embodiment, motion, perception, and participation in the reception of a work of art. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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The Role of Lyrics in Estonian Literature: Three Exemplary Cases by Anneli Niinre

“…The article examines three cases in Estonian literature where melodised poetic texts have played a significant role in Estonian culture and are considered to be core texts: “Mu isamaa on minu arm” (My Fatherland is My Love) by Lydia Koidula, songs from the feature film Viimne reliikvia (The Last Relic), lyrics written by Paul-Eerik Rummo, and “Laul Põhjamaast” (“Song of the Northern Land”), lyrics by Enn Vetemaa. …”
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Serialization of Ọbasa’s Poems in The Yorùbá News by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Trough intertextuality theory, the easy aims at appraising how Ọbasa transfer his knowledge of the Yorùbá oral literature to his readers through his application of oral poetic form from his serialized poems. Tis work will therefore dwell on Intertextuality and its influence on the works of Ọbasa, which will enable us to discuss his creative ability as a cultural activist. …”
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Marie Uguay et Saint-Denys Garneau, au bord du vide by Mylène Durand

“…Both express a conscience and a lucid vision of death. Their poetic works show that their lyric subjects are situated in a sort of “in-between”, an excrescence of time, a threshold they are trying to name. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…The result is that French is essential to his art in so far as it provides a constant challenge to the master discourse of the authorial voice and thus constitutes the basis of the poetic dimension of his prose based on the Lacanian notion of lalangue, as if French acted as a surrogate maternal language.…”
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Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of Women by Alison Stone

“…Here I focus on how she made that connection in her 1832 work Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical. Looking at Shakespeare’s female characters, Jameson argued that they provide moral examples of various sorts: role models, warnings, or a mixture of the two. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…However, because they connect the realm of matter and the realm of poetry, Carlyle’s Arachnes also epitomize the workings of imagination, the transformative power of poetic language in the face of change and the capacity of ‘symbolic systems’ to ‘make’ and ‘remake’ the world—to quote Paul Ricœur’s The Rule of Metaphor. …”
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