Preserving old possum: T. S. Eliot and the making of reputation by Smart, N

“…With over ten times the amount of primary material now available in collected editions than in equivalent volumes published before the death of his widow-cum-executor in 2012, the task of revealing Hugh Kenner’s once ‘invisible poet’ seems more achievable than ever. By making use of these newly collected poems, essays, and letters, this thesis unpicks Eliot’s attempts to control his literary reputation. …”

'Pour une poésie mineure': linguistic experimentation in the work of Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Christophe Tarkos by Sainsbury, D

“…<p>In a passage in <em>Mille plateaux</em>, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refer to the 'expressions singulières' of the American poet E. E. Cummings (<em>'he danced his did ou they went their came'</em>), arguing that Cummings offers an example of how, in literature, the atypical stylistic and syntactic variations of an author push language towards its limit, extending it 'vers un en-deçà ou un au-delà de la langue' (125-6). …”

Muddy waters: political tensions and identity in the writings of Xu Wei (1521-1593) by Luper, E

“…<p>The late Ming artist and poet Xu Wei 徐渭 (1521-1593) is most well known for his self-representation as a cultured "mountain hermit" and "eccentric", pursuing the literary ideals of originality, simple language and direct emotional expression. …”

The art of Platonic love by Lopez, N

“…This reading positions us to see that a correctly progressing and well-practiced Platonic love is illustrated in the character of the philosopher Socrates, who is known and followed for his bizarre displays of virtue and whom Alcibiades crowns over either Aristophanes or Agathon as the wisest and most beautiful poet at the <em>Symposium</em>. Third: to account for how to love a person Platonically. …”

Bilingual experimentation in contemporary Chinese literary production by Costello, K

“…Finally, I close with poet Hsia Yü and her poetry collection <em>Pink Noise</em>, excavating the juncture between bilingual writing, technicity, and multimedia experimentation. …”

Swinburne and the novel by Krishnan, L

“…Chapter Nine interrogates <em>Lesbia Brandon</em> as a meditation on the youth of a poet and an avant-garde example of Swinburne’s hybrid, poetic prose.…”

Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Gaston Hall, From extravagant poet to the writer as hero: Piron's <em>La Métromanie</em> and Pierre Cerou's <em>L'Amant auteur et valet</em> <br/> Miguel Benìtez, Benoît de Maillet et la littérature clandestine: étude de sa correspondance avec l'abbé Le Mascrier <br/> Danielle Johnson-Cousin, Les 'leçons' de déclamation de Germaine Necker: note sur le 'mystère Clairon' <br/> John Renwick, Chamfort, patriote en coulisses: réflexions sur une lettre inédite à Roland <br/> Jacques Bourgeacq, A partir de la lettre XLVIII des <em>Liaisons dangereuses</em>: analyse stylistique <br/> Graham E. …”

Storytelling in late antique epic: a study of the narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca by Geisz, C, Camille H Geisz

“…Some interventions signal a change in tone or the integration of another genre; the expected proems and invocations to the Muse become spaces for a display of ingeniousness, a discussion of the sources and a reflection on the role of the poet.</p> <p>The efforts made by the Nonnian narrator to renew well known devices also denotes his mindfulness of his narratee, whom he involves in the story through metaleptic devices, or by drawing on a shared cultural background to enhance the narrative with allusions to extradiegetic references.…”

The cave of making : the poetry of Louis MacNeice by Marsack, R

“…Yeats</u>, to make clear that he is 'a less simple and more substantial poet than many of his admirers and some of his detractors think him'. …”

Unity and disunity in Japanese modern times: the songs and theories of Yamada Kо̄saku by Watson, FK

“…However, Yamada’s close collaborator from 1922 onwards, the poet Kitahara Hakushū 北原白秋 (1885-1942), provided a solution to this ‘crisis of unity’ with his anti-intellectual ideology of the pure ‘heart of a child’ (dōshin 童心). …”

Desperate remedies and vital lies: art, literature, and escapism, 1840-1914 by Daniels, HG

“…This thesis uncovers a specifically ambivalent escapist tradition across genres in the writing of the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and the memoirist and man of letters Edmund Gosse (1849-1928). …”

Weird science: affect and epistemology in contemporary literary and artistic projects by Morris, K

“…Projects bear witness to what the poet Lyn Hejinian has called the romance of science: its rigor, patience, thoroughness and speculative imagination (Mirage, 1983, 24) In so doing, these projects reveal forms of affect that only emerge through this 'weird science' as literary and artistic experiments.…”

me iuuat in gremio doctae legisse puellae: mindful reading in the elegies of Propertius by Franklinos, T

“… (1) A rhythm of intratextual reading is established in the generically important funerary elegies of Book I, setting this against the poet's amatory discourse. An analysis of II.i shows that mindful reading is a phenomenon that occurs between, as well as within, books…”

Gary Snyder's green Dharma by Harmsworth, T

“…Snyder's early interest in Buddhism was motivated largely by translations of Chinese poetry and Chapter Two examines his own translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan. In Snyder's translations and contemporaneous original poetry, Buddhist poetics mingle with American conceptions of wilderness. …”

A space for song: Ovid's metapoetic landscapes by Campbell, CM

“…I argue for this interest as indicated to the reader by three points of departure made by the poet that show up against the background of his interconnected patterning of narrations. …”

The origins, development and meaning of the figure Urizen in the poetry, prophecies and graphic art of William Blake by Larrissy, E, Larrissy, Edward T.

“…The Bard looks like Urizen, for the Priest derives from the Poet, as Blake would have learned from contemporary primitivist writers. …”

Mystical love metaphors: a cognitive analysis of Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry by Sareh Jaberi, Imran-Ho-Abdullah, Ravichandran Vengadasamy

“…The present paper will be focused on Sohrab Sepehri, a contemporary Persian poet and painter, renowned for his composition of several acclaimed Persian modern poems and mystical tendencies. …”
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«Its Maṭla‘ and Ḫarja are Twofold in Function»: Form and Content in Ibn Quzmān’s «Zajal 59» and «138» / "Maṭla‘ y Ḫarja tienen doble función": forma y contenido en los zéjeles «59»... by James T. Monroe

“…It is sug-gested that this external thematic parallelism fram-ing the poem encloses an internal patterning based on ring composition, an organizational technique of which the poet may well have been consciously aware. (5) The form this patterning takes, however, points to certain ambiguities and contradictions, inviting the reader to interpret the text by penetrat-ing beyond its surface meaning, in order to arrive at its deeper layers of significance. …”
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Semantic Balance in the Translation of Poem to Poem in the Light of Theory of Order (Nazm); (focusing on the translation of classical poetry between Arabic and Persian languages) by Hesam Hajmomen

“…The way the poem signifies the purpose reflects the creative process that is designed in the poet's mind to express a theme.When this mental process finds an objective expression in the poem with the use of linguistic elements, a special meaning construction is formed, which is the product of the poet's creativity in arranging the speech to present the meaning. …”
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Rhetorical Criticism: Definition and Methods by Narges Salehi, Yahya Talebian, Mohammad Reza Haji Aghababaei

“…In his book on poetry criticism, Truthful Poetry, Unmasked Poetry, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob (1923-1999) maintains that “the poet himself” critiques his poetry “when he is weighing and assessing words and meanings in his poem, when he reviews and edits his work, when he talks about his method or his purpose and taste” (Zarrinkoob 1977, p. 9). …”
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