Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century by N.L. deClaissé-Walford

“…Next, the article discusses the form and scriptural status of the Psalter’s imprecatory words, emphasising the poetic and metaphoric characteristics of the Psalter’s words. …”
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The methodological meaning of the concept of the culture of National Liberation by Paulius Subačius

“…These theoretical constructions have developed after analysing the images of national identity in the Lithuanian poetical texts of the second half of the XIX century. …”
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Lexical Ambiguity in the Lyrics of the Cigarettes After Sex Album: A Semantic Study by Francis Varian Chin, Hero Gunawan

“…This ambiguity also increases the complexity of the lyrics, making it an effective poetic tool in conveying nuances of emotion and multi-layered meanings. …”
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Avoir-lieu ? : quelques expériences théâtrales de la scène britannique contemporaine by Jeanne Schaaf, Julien Alliot

“…The article focuses on some examples of “techno-poetic” creations and nomadic performances to highlight the ways in which the most recent media environments contribute to the emergence of new communities of spectators or rather players or co-creators.…”
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A cidade desejada e sublimada por Jorge Amado: os lugares imaginados em Bahia de Todos-os- Santos: guia de ruas e mistérios de Salvador by Ricardo Araújo Barberena

“…Even if the city has changed physically, it remains unchanged in terms of its poetic prose and in the production of a sublime descriptivism of a “black Rome.”…”
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Poète en morceaux, morceaux de poète by Amalia Dragani

“…The second feature concerns the description of the creative act. While poetic texts focus on the moment before creation and are silent about post-creation, the informal descriptions operate in a symmetrical and inverted way, offering silence on inspiration and discourse on post-creation, on the “process of self-healing” brought by the creative process. …”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…This shift paves the way for a new scenic and verbal representation of animals in the poetic wild, liberated from the chains of meaningful clarity and allegory. …”
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Performance Methodologies in Suicide Prevention Research: Queerness, Colonization, and Co-Performative Witnessing in Indigenous Community by Antonia R. G. Alvarez

“…Performance methodologies take many forms—performative writing, poetic transcription, and co-performative witnessing, to name only a few—and can be both process and product, differentiating and unifying a group between and across differences. …”
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Warring Claims: Victorian Poetry and Conflict by Matthew Bevis

“…The First World War is often seen as heralding a break between Victorian and modern conceptions of conflict, and critics have tended to opt for a series of neat poetic oppositions—the glorious versus the gruesome, the heroic versus the hellish, the romantic versus the realistic. …”
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The Predominance of the French Language in Francophone African Literature: The Case of Konan Roger Langui’s Wandi Bla! by Métou Kané

“…attests to this. Through this poetic creation that puts orality at the service of writing, the work takes on an intercultural dimension. …”
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“‘I will open my lips in vain’ (3.1.192): l’échec rhétorique dans Measure for Measure” by Mickaël Popelard

“…That the voluble Isabella finally chooses to remain silent, letting the Duke dictate what she must say and do, is one of the most puzzling aspects of this intriguing comedy which suggests that one often speaks ’’in vain’’ whilst simultaneously celebrating, by its very existence, the dramatic and poetical efficacy of language.…”
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In Search of Lost National Epic: Poem Kastītis ir Juraite by Auszra poet Andrius Vištelis by Ieva Kristinaitytė

“…The first part of the article discusses the paradigm of poetic and linguistic reconstruction and its significance for the creative program of one of the initiators of Auszra, thus including Vištelis in the significant field of the romanticism, which was manifested in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whereas the second part analyses the idea of a new egalitarian society proclaimed in the poem Kastītis ir Juraite in the 19th century through the context of utopias. …”
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Visions and Revisions: The Multiple Lives of Mina Loy’s Lunar Baedeker by Diane Drouin

“…Rather, they should be regarded as different versions of Loy’s poetic vision. Multiple layers of text are thus displayed, characterized by constant alteration and instability. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…In Seghers’s view, his biography and his work can be seen as a model poetic gesture: both active and likely to solicit action.…”
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Poétisation et déréalisation de la ville au XIXème siècle : les tropes d’une littérature hantée by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Yet, because of the way they were represented, cities were paradoxically derealized—even in supposedly realistic texts—and turned into dreamlike or fantasy entities with Gothic or mythical qualities.The fact the city was so omnipresent and disturbing while at the same time so familiar or even commonplace probably accounts for the writers’ keeping it at a distance, through derealizing techniques whose stylistic modalities shall here be examined, namely the use in prose works of literary devices that belong to poetic writing—such as metaphors, hypallages and metonymies—in Thomas De Quincey’s The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and Poe’s "The Man of the Crowd" (1840). …”
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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…In the 1990s, North American and British scholars started to re-evaluate film noir and show that this genre was not exclusive to American cinema: in fact, Charles O’Brien revealed that the label “film noir” had first been used in France before the war to describe a group of French films that are more or less the same ones we now identify as “poetic realism”; he then went on to refer to a new tendency in post-World-War-II Hollywood cinema. …”
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The Sounds of Horseshoe a Zoopoetic Reading of Yılkı Atı by Abbas Sayar by Özlem Akyol

“…The theory includes literature to explore different nonhuman agentive forms by analysing how literary texts reproduce animals’ modes of being and reveals that poetic creation is not only sustained through human affair but animals also take an active part in making and shaping poetry. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…As the observer (usually a man) is seized by the object of his gaze, the visual screen that hides what is beneath the surface dissolves and a new mode of writing emerges. Poetic writing rises when words are unable to express the writer's meaning and when what is to be told is unspeakable, as it is the case with Tess's death or Jude's agony. …”
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La peur dans The City of Dreadful Night (1874) de James Thomson by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Although its form is largely indebted to 19th century poetic codes, the mood of The City surprisingly pre-dates the 20th century sense of the tragic and the absurd. …”
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Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered by Cristina Pividori

“…The centenary of the Great War (2014-2018) has sparked a renewed poetic output, leading to the publication of anthologies like Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s 1914: Poetry Remembers (2013). …”
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