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Craig Czury's Volume of Prose Poetry, Fifteen Stones, as a Site of Resistance against the Neoliberal Consensus
Published 2023-04-01“…The present article brings to the attention of European readers and literary criticism the volume of prose poetry Fifteen Stones (2015) of the contemporary North American poet Craig Czury. Even though Craig Czury is the author of more than twenty books, many of them being translated into Albanian, Russian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Spanish, and Italian, there is very little literary criticism in relation to his works, particularly in Europe. …”
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The New Penelopean Poetics: A Feminist Reassessment of the Victimization of Women in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ‘‘The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver’’ and ‘‘An Ancient Gesture’’...
Published 2016-01-01“…This study explores the penelopean myth as ideological tool of patriarchal system and it argues that gender stereotypes set in Greek myths have been recreated later by the modern American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Encouraged by the feminist movement, Millay revised and rewrote the penelopean myth highlighting the gender stereotyping as an important feature in her poems, ‘‘The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,’’ and ‘‘An Ancient Gesture.’’ …”
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An Ecological Study of Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin
Published 2024-03-01“… The American poet W. S. Merwin (1927-2019) is one of the most important enthusiastic ecopoets. …”
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Towards a Humanitarian Race
Published 2022-09-01“… The purpose of this article is to analyze selected poetic works of Billy Collins (1941- ), the most popular American poet in the present time, to show a clear line of moral humanitarian preaching that runs under the surface of his often humorous and entertaining poems. …”
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Tracing Paths of Love through Poetic Inquiry
Published 2022-12-01“…Specifically, this poetic inquiry traces three synchronous veins of love in my life as they weave through my writing-as-research: love for my daughters (and the intractable wonder of childhood); love for a beloved teacher and mentor, American poet Robert Bly; and love as secular-spiritual awakening, the beating heart of social justice and personal/political activism. …”
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Weldon Kees and the Poetic Landscapes of Despair
Published 2022-12-01“…The aim of this paper is to contribute to the efforts to renew an interest in the poetry of Weldon Kees, a more or less forgotten American poet of late modernism. The main argument of this paper is that Weldon Kees, while a belated poet of modernism, successfully swerved away from the earlier poetics of modernism and proved capable of constructing a unique poetics of despair and alienation. …”
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‘Its native surroundings’: Marianne Moore, England, and the idea of the ‘characteristic American’
Published 2016“…Critics have gone so far as to claim Moore as an Irish-American poet. In so doing they have glossed over the English side of her family background (as did Moore herself). …”
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Vachel Lindsay’s Visionary Theoretical Reflections on Film
Published 2023-12-01“…Although neglected for decades, American poet, journalist, and painter Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) made a significant contribution to the rising film theory with his book The Art of The Moving Picture, the first American study of a kind, published in 1915. …”
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Ecology in Paul Muldoon’s Postcolonial Poetry
Published 2019-07-01“…Employing the principles of postcolonial ecocriticism, the study throws light upon Muldoon’s poetical works where the Irish-American poet tries to preserve his native agricultural identity and tradition in face of the global Anglo-American culture. …”
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The Sensing Salon
Published 2023-06-01“…*The Echo Deck was inspired by the poems of African American-Japanese American poet Ai Ogawa. A provisional version of deck, with all the cards still blank, was first used in readings during our residency at Amant in New York, in 2022.…”
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Emily Dickinson:
Published 2021-09-01“…The life of nineteenth century American poet, Emily Dickinson, is an example of how the internalization of parental expectations and childhood emotional neglect can affect emotional maturity and adult behaviour. …”
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Ophelia's lovers
Published 2013-10-01“…Besides translating the American poet's poems (notably "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "Ulalume"), he edited collections of Poe's tales. …”
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Copernican Revolutions: Mary Jo Salter’s Intertextual Interpretation of Paradise Lost in Falling Bodies
Published 2009-12-01“…In addition, this study analyzes the reuse of the Miltonic model in Falling Bodies, a play written by the contemporary American poet Mary Jo Salter. Here tragische Analysis is used for bringing about a new Copernican Revolution in which the focus has been shifted from morals to metaliterature. …”
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The Prophetess and the Vampire
Published 2017-09-01“… In 2001 the renowned American poet Dana Gioia brought to life a work in which the centuries-old myth of the vampire, the richness of the operatic phrase, and the vague echoes of the poet’s Italian heritage dialogued with the modern taste of the American public. …”
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Sylvia Plath and the containment of women’s domestic identity
Published 2022-05-01“…Examining the political climate of Cold War America through the lens of domestic containment, this article argues that American poet Sylvia Plath tackled the illusions of consumerism to fuel her writing, challenging outright gender inequality which defined the nation. …”
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“American National Literature. Is there any such thing – or, can there ever be?”: Walt Whitman e le strategie di selezione del canone tra discorso metaletterario e politica cultura...
Published 2020-01-01“…The present contribution deals with the strategies of selection, which lay at the basis of the so-called national literary canons, by examining a number of critical prose essays written by the American poet Walt Whitman. Under a sociological perspective, Whitman’s essays may be considered not only as mere literary texts, but also as a specimen of meta-literary discourse, fostering the development of the American literary field of the late-Nineteenth century, in its entangled relations with and within the literary marketplace (authors, readers, and publishing industry). …”
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A Postsecular Poetics of Dislocation: Secularism and Religion in the Indian-American Poetry of Meena Alexander
Published 2021-12-01“…This article examines the work of Indian-American poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018), one of postcolonial India’s foremost poets, and argues that Alexander’s combination of religion and secularism in her poetry gestures toward postsecular possibilities and conditions, especially as such postsecularism emerges from the worldly crises and violence of the twenty-first century. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Translations of “Mathnavi”
Published 2013-08-01“…In spite of this, Coleman Barks, an American poet, has provided the best-selling English translations of Masnavi. …”
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Spelling Errors as a Cry of Protest. The Idiosyncratic Language of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Published 2017-04-01“…This article aims at analysing the spelling oddities in the still widely unknown corpus of the German-American poet Elsa von-Freytag Loringhoven (1874-1927). …”
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Rewriting as Reception: Gary Snyder’s Representation of Chuang Tzu in His Eco-Poetic Literature
Published 2023-06-01“…Burton Watson’s high-quality rendition The Complete Work of Chuang Tzu(1968) has been well-received by the renowned American poet Gary Snyder, who, based on Watson’s translation, rewrote Chuang Tzu in his eco-poetic literature to show his agreement with Zhuangzi’s philosophies. …”
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