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Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics
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Matthew Chaldekas and Thomas J Nelson
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 67, Issue 2, December 2024, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbae030
Published: 05 March 2025
... seeks to initiate a dialogue between these different disciplinary strands, drawing together the study of literary aesthetics (‘poetics’), philosophy, and art history. Building on recent developments in Hellenistic studies, the authors outline key issues and concerns, including the variety, materiality...
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‘The movie theatres are little bits of things’: Poetry and Cinema in Montale and Stevens
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Matilde Manara
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 33–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae089
Published: 28 January 2025
... to show that the relationship of Modernist poetry (a supposedly conservative and elitist movement) with mass culture and its media is much more ambivalent than is usually thought. Modernism lyric poetry cinema Montale Stevens comparative poetics intermedial studies In his Minima Moralia...
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Amy Levy’s Decadent ‘Medea’
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Julie Wise
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 29, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 545–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcae020
Published: 20 September 2024
... of sympathy as a means of understanding while proposing decadence – a language of excess, irony, and ambiguity – as a language available to cultural outsiders for challenging their marginalization. Amy Levy Augusta Webster Medea Euripides decadence expressive poetics race gender poetry While the term...
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‘A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light’: Coleridge’s Phenomenal Invisible
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Abigail Rogers
Literature and Theology, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 199–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad017
Published: 01 July 2023
... to the visible world as replete with intimations of God. In doing so, the poet seeks a way of speaking about God that neither synonymises him with the world nor places him beyond the realm of phenomenal experience altogether. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metaphysics Romanticism Theology Phenomenology Poetics...
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Reading the Sensory Trajectory of Unmoored Existence and the Poetic Encoding of Wounds in Zsuzsa Bánk’s Der Schwimmer (2002)
Shivani Chauhan
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 202–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad028
Published: 17 April 2023
...’, the primary objective of this essay is to examine the poetic encoding of sensory tropes underlying the core subjects of memory, trauma and migration in the novel. Firstly, rather than reading this novel primarily as a socio-political document, this article highlights the aesthetic qualities of Der...
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On Unicorns: Rilke and Medieval Noetics
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P S Makhlouf
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 172–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac022
Published: 12 June 2022
... Brigge is fixated on figurations of lost homes which tell of the loss of ‘the poetic measure’, i.e. the decrepit status of art at the fin de siècle and the dominance of commodification. Malte’s viewing of the La Dame à la licorne tapestries is a unique moment of aesthetic plenitude previously...
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‘Having-to-be-thus’: On Bonhoeffer’s Reading of Goethe’s Iphegenia in Tauris
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Jacob Phillips
Literature and Theology, Volume 32, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 357–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fry020
Published: 30 July 2018
... argues that the interpretation of an important element of the Ethics manuscripts is well-served by being approached through aesthetics, specifically poetics. The element in question is what Bonhoeffer considers a sense of ‘objective necessity’ involved in acting obediently to Christ...
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Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form
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Rebecca Ruth Gould
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 191–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx039
Published: 03 February 2018
... poetics within the study of global literary form. I show how, by adding an interpretive layer, translation enriches our encounter with the source text. For the purposes of my argument, the mediation afforded by translation roots us more deeply in the text. As I explore concrete examples of poetry...
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Emotional Justice in Agrippa d’AubignÉ’s Tragiques
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Andrea Frisch
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 73–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx077
Published: 14 December 2017
... of the Edict of Nantes, Agrippa d’Aubigné articulates his position as a witness through a poetics of justice, which he identifies by its capacity to move readers (rather than simply teach them). The aim of Aubigné’s testimony is esmouvoir, to move in the service of justice. Whether this be from...
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Engaging Culteranismo: Lope de Vega’s Poetics as Reflected in his Later Sonnets
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Mark J Mascia
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 207–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx071
Published: 17 October 2017
... with literature. To understand Lope’s literary beliefs and his interaction with specific contemporaries or literary currents, it is necessary to see what he inscribes within his poetry about literary discourse. Although Lope uses several different poetic forms (the epístola, the égloga...
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“Put My Thang Down, Flip It and Reverse It”: Black Women’s Interstitial Languages of Body and Desire
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
American Literary History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Winter 2017, Pages 704–725, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajx031
Published: 10 October 2017
...Mecca Jamilah Sullivan While black women writers have used their poetics to interrogate racialized and gendered sociopolitical experience for centuries, the emergence of a sustained, public dialogue on intersectionality in black women’s intellectual and cultural spaces in the latter third...
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Aestheticizing Insecurity: A Response to Security Studies and American Literary History
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Johannes Voelz
American Literary History, Volume 29, Issue 3, Fall 2017, Pages 615–624, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajx018
Published: 26 July 2017
...,
Liberty Fund , 2010 . Voelz Johannes. The Poetics of Insecurity: American Fiction and the Uses of Threat .
Cambridge UP , 2017 . As I have described it so far, all of these analyses add facets to a growing body of security research intent on working through, and against, the liberal...
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Humboldt in Translation Theory: Pearls of Wisdom, or Splashes in the Ocean?
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James W. Underhill
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 58–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqw087
Published: 13 January 2017
... translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (1816) to answer this question. conception foreignizing translation Humboldt poetics Sprachdenken Sprachsinn translation Weltansicht worldview world What does Wilhelm von Humboldt have to say about translating? How have his...
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Humboldt’s ‘Thinking Language’: Poetics and Politics
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Marko Pajević
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 95–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqw083
Published: 24 December 2016
... on the Humboldtian tradition of Sprachdenken [thinking language], is that language is a paradigm for our ideas on the way communal life functions. If that is the case, our theory of language is of utmost political importance. Poetics becomes political. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s reflections on the dual offer...
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Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams
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Marc Botha
American Literary History, Volume 28, Issue 4, Winter 2016, Pages 779–786, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajw054
Published: 22 October 2016
... simply because we live in it, but because it constitutes a site at which our existence is felt more intensely; a site for the gathering into presence of Being that is finally marked in terms of a poetic dwelling in language (150–51, 154). In this brief set of responses to the five challenging...
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When Page Won’t Go to Stage: Adaptation-Resistant Embryos of Theatricality in Agatha Christie’s ‘Three Blind Mice’ and ‘Witness for the Prosecution’
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Caroline Marie
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 47–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu002
Published: 28 March 2014
... and pieces of evidence, do not function similarly in the short stories and plays, because Christie’s poetics wrong-foots the reader’s and the audience’s expectations concerning each mode, either diegetic or theatrical. The analysis of gesture and voice then proves that embryos of theatricality...
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Writing For or Writing About Children? The Representation of Childhood in Contemporary Italian Fiction
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Laura Rorato
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 145–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs068
Published: 25 March 2013
... letteratura, il gioco, il dolore’, Zibaldoni e altre meraviglie, 5 (2003) < http://www.zibaldoni.it/archivio/numeri/05/preludi/la_letteratura_il_gioco_il_dolore.htm > [accessed 6 January 2012]. 2 Roni Natov, The Poetics of Childhood (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), p. 220...
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Beyond the Sign. Henri Meschonnic's Poetics of the Continuum and of Rhythm: Towards an Anthropological Theory of Language
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Marko Pajević
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 304–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqr009
Published: 01 July 2011
... on the sign represents an obstacle to the awareness of certain elements of human life, especially to a full understanding of what language or art do. Henri Meschonnic's poetics of the continuum and of rhythm criticizes the sign based on Benveniste's terms of rhythm and discourse, developing an anthropology...
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Translating Laurence Louppe
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Sally Gardner
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 356–371, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqq018
Published: 16 September 2010
... sketched all too briefly above. Louppe's approach is poetic because, as she writes, “poetics […] does not only tell us what a work of art does to us, it teaches us how it is made” (“Raisons d'une poétique”, p. 19). In other words, Louppe's project is to create a discourse where dance can be felt to arise...
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“Mounting Above the Truthe”: On Hyperbole in English Renaissance Literature
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Goran V. Stanivukovic
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, JANUARY 2007, Pages 9–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql112
Published: 01 January 2007
..., John Hoskyns, Richard Sherry and Gabriel Harvey; the writers whose uses of hyperbole this essay interrogates include William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Raleigh, Spenser and John Dryden. hyperbole tropes figures amplification copia English Renaissance literature poetics...
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