Un sociologue des religions en occitanisme, Jean (-Baptiste) Séguy by Philippe Gardy

“…Séguy: he began to learn this language that he only knew by hearsay initially, made it his other research language alongside French, and even went as far as becoming an Occitan writer, through critical, journalistic or fictional poems and proses. Through various unpublished or little-known documents, particularly letters, we try to describe the main features of this "Occitan temptation" and we examine the meaning of this attachment, to which he seems to have remained faithful until his last days.…”
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A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This text intends to make a reflection on some renowned poems of the contemporary brazilian literature, and on how this condition seems to determine a new look to this literature,subverting the knowledge, the forms, the genders, the concepts that at a certain point were sufficient to explain the literary text.…”
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Folquet de Marseille ou Foulques de Toulouse ? La mémoire d’un troubadour devenu évêque à travers ses représentations by Léa David

“…Six in number, they feature the character and mark the beginning of the section dedicated to his poems. Nearly fifty years after his death, they show the central importance of this character, whose memory is blurred by his atypical path, which led him in turn to be a troubadour, a monk, and a bishop.…”
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Perception et représentation de l’univers amazonien dans Sortilèges de Diana Lichy : un paysage chamanique by Cécile Bertin-Elisabeth

“…Diana Lichy, a modern Venezuelan poetess, depicts a shamanic landscape in her anthology entitled Spells (1994) as a landscape particular to the imaginative world and traditions of the Amazonian universe. These thirty poems are as many dreamlike "trips" into irrational worlds in which, unlike the western way privileging the look, the multi-sensory dimension focuses on sonorous timeless landscapes seen from inside and deprived of exoticism. …”
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Composed for Solo Guitar or String Orchestra? The Fluid Incarnations and Pedagogical Opportunities of Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar by Bart Eeckhout

“…This article elaborates the critical, editorial, and pedagogical challenges and opportunities raised by Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar (both the book and the title poem). It ranges from a consideration of the title poem’s unpublished autograph and the preliminary appearance of a selection of cantos in Twentieth Century Verse and Poetry to the book published by Knopf in 1937, its subsequent repackaging in 1952, and the different ways in which especially the title poem has been integrated in selected, collected, and artistically augmented volumes for the English-speaking market, as well as in translation. …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…Elements such as burlesque poems and farces as interludes, comical or picaresque elements incorporated in the (auto)biography of characters, are embbedded in a continuum of more serious tone, inherited from noble novelistic genres, even if the novel aims to entertain. …”
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Stefan George: Von einer Begegnung (1890) by Klaus Wieland

“…Hempfer, examines their transhistorical and transcultural claim to universal validity and raises the question of how far these classificatory theories can also be used for the interpretation of poems. Subsequently, it analyzes Stefan George’s famous poem Von einer Begegnung as an example of German turn-of-the-century poetry, taking into consideration the pre-texts of Dante, Petrarch and Baudelaire to which George´s poem refers intertextually. …”
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The Unaccompanied: Poetic Expressions of the Working Classes in England by Matthias Fechner

“…Since the lost labour struggles of the mid-1980s, (working-class) poets like Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage have progressively asserted their themes across the social strata. Hence, four of their poems are put to closer scrutiny. Especially Armitage’s verse mirrors a tendency in contemporary working-class poetry – frequently located in the North and the Midlands – to reflect on endangered traditions, with no small amount of nostalgia. …”
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¿Como una caña en el cañaveral? by Dante Barrientos Tecún, Marie-Christine Seguin

“…However, in the most recent productions of Caribbean poems, an innovation appears in the treatment of this topic that, from the traditions, adapts itself to modern forms of transmission.…”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…If the book is freed from temporality, this is never with the aim of recreating an ersatz of Middle Ages. The analysis of some poems in this paper suggests that the connection between the medieval reference and the poetical language is made around the death and resurrection of the Occitan language : as Iseut (Yseult) seems to die and be reborn, the lost language comes back again, in a new shape, both alike and different.…”
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‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…It offers a reading of the philological poetics of her 1893 volume of poems, Retrospect, as a reflection of a poet in exile concerned with the question of how language composes feeling.…”
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Charles Bukowski’s Online Reading Community: Safeguarding the Author’s Work by Building a Consensus by Amélie Macaud

“…They share the belief that John Martin, Charles Bukowski’s former publisher, heavily edited his poems after his death, to the point of making them unrecognizable. …”
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Naissance d’une critique ? La présence de l’occitan dans la presse béarnaise de la fin du XVIIIe siècle by Jean-François Courouau

“…In each of these publications, the Occitan language (Béarnais) is present through poems but sometimes too through critical reviews or literary judgements. …”
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La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. …”
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The Satirical Vision of Canadian/Scottish Songwriter, Poet, and Novelist Graeme Williamson by Victor Kennedy

“…This paper will analyse several of Williamson’s song lyrics, poems, short stories, and his novel, Strange Faith, to show how his writing presents a critical view of modern society.…”
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Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…Beginning with Merwin’s own concept of translation, this essay links his work as a poet and translator with early and recent theories of language and translation. Taking his poem “Leviathan” as an opening example, it shows how Merwin’s highly innovative way of using medieval models can be transferred into German. …”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Though it is not generally considered one of Yeats’s main symbols, the mountain occurs frequently in his poetry, particularly in the last poems. By focusing on “Under Ben Bulben”, Yeats’s concluding poem, and by comparing various mountains in Yeats’s work – Oriental and Western, Italian and Irish – this article analyses the mountain as the place where the ego encounters a wider psychological dimension, the (Jungian) Self. …”
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N.P. VAN WYK LOUW AS SATIRIKUS by HP van Coller

“…In conclusion, two seminal poems by Van Wyk Louw that were, in the past, read as detached and reflective are interpreted as satirical, with reference to Speech Act Theory. …”
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A estética dos becos em Cora Coralina ou “Um modo diferente de contar velhas estórias” by Clovis Carvalho Britto

“…In this interpretive key, she observed social relations within Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a point of view that rehabilitates the margins. In several poems and tales, the city life is translated from life in the alleys, the characters who reside there, and relationships and reactions that it causes. …”
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