The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective by Agnieszka Solska

“…Though forming a tiny fraction of the utterances produced in these languages, they tend to stand out and can be encountered in diverse communicative settings, including poetry and prose, jokes and comedy routines, advertising slogans and book titles. …”
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"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry by Lenka Doová

“… This article, based on Scandinavian narrative sources (tha sagas), skaldic and eddic poetry as well as medieval law-codes, presents a particular view of the Scandinavian gender history during the Viking Age. …”
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Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI by Martin Holmes

“…I argue that cryptic crossword clues have a great deal in common with poetry, and that we have much to learn from their structure. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Using both phenomenology and close-readings of the text, this paper tries to show the major characteristics of Hardy's idiosyncratic voice, which is also distinctly heard in his poetry.…”
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W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…Critics have long assumed that Merwin had a primarily negative attitude toward Whitman’s poetry, viewing him as a spokesperson for the U.S.’s embrace of manifest destiny and its catastrophic ecological impact. …”
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Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899) by Vanessa Warne

“…This article focuses on the representation of women poets in a significant poetry anthology of the Edwardian era, William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation, published by John Lane in 1902. …”
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Du rat-toto fils du porc-épic, de la panthère et de la nandinie by Claudie Haxaire

“…The origin of the most beautiful and most complete expression of the Guro art, that of the Zamble mask and its masquerade, combine poetry of tales and precision of encyclopedic knowledge.Taking at its words the animal nicknames given by the Guro of Zuenoula to the masks of the Zamble family, namely Zamble himself, his wild brother Zàùlì and their wife Gù, we show how the habits attributed respectively to the panther, to the Gambian pouched rat and to the African palm civet, encyclopedic knowledge on which the tales are based, illuminates the warlike origin of these cults. …”
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Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation (1902) by Sarah Parker

“…This article focuses on the representation of women poets in a significant poetry anthology of the Edwardian era, William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation, published by John Lane in 1902. …”
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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry by Marion Thain

“…British female aestheticism is seen to have a key geographical locus in London, and critics have convincingly argued over recent years for the importance of that city and its rich cultural life to the work of late-nineteenth-century women’s poetry. Yet it is seldom recognised that the aesthetic London lifestyle of these writers was in key instances only made possible by family fortunes amassed through the industrial expansion of Birmingham and its surrounding conurbation. …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…The paper explains further that the festival's motif and cultural celebration built into the structure of the selected play and properly harnessed raw material for his poetry. The methodology is analytical and complemented by hermeneutics theory. …”
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Les Fleurs du Mal, de la censure au musée by Léo Rivaud Chevaillier

“…The artist had discussed the idea of confronting Baudelaire’s poetry, a source of inspiration for his Gates of Hell, before receiving the commission from Gallimard. …”
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SHAKESPEARE IN LITHUANIAN by Ema Vyroubalová, Gemma Navickiene

“…Shakespeare’s plays and poetry have been translated into over one hundred languages and are performed, read, and taught throughout much of the world more often than those of any other playwright. …”
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Poets and Puppets: Interarts Collaboration in Alfred Kreymborg’s Lima Beans by Yasna Bozhkova

“…Second, it specifically focuses on the blurring of the boundaries between the different arts—drama, poetry, and dance among others—in this play, whose dialogues were conceived as free verse. …”
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“Punk’s Not Dead, It Lives on The Football Terraces”: Tracing The Legacy of Punk in Subcultural Milieu of The Football Firms by Hüseyin Serbes

“…The discovery of Punk, which offers a subcultural capital against commodification, alienation and commercialized football, may regenerate the praxis of pleasure, poetry, art, imagination, love and revolution on the football terraces.…”
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Serialization of Ọbasa’s Poems in The Yorùbá News by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Ọbasa, the publisher ́ of The Yorùbá News, also published many works of poetry. Ọbasa started the publication of excerpts of his poems in The Yoruba News under the column “Àwọn Akéwì.” …”
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Les Promesses écrites des composants dans l’architecture de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle by Éric Monin, Catherine Blain

“…Beyond the visions they arouse, the words and lists they compose, these products reveal the poetry of a world transformed by industry, a material ecstasy that today escapes us, at the risk of forgetting this fragile heritage.…”
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Jòrgi Reboul, un parcours singulier vers l’occitanisme à travers l’histoire du XXe siècle by François Courtray

“…Known for his innovative literary work which upset the codes of Occitan poetry in the early 1930s, he was also and above all a man of action, engaged in the defence of the Oc language and culture. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…However, because they connect the realm of matter and the realm of poetry, Carlyle’s Arachnes also epitomize the workings of imagination, the transformative power of poetic language in the face of change and the capacity of ‘symbolic systems’ to ‘make’ and ‘remake’ the world—to quote Paul Ricœur’s The Rule of Metaphor. …”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning’s vis comica has long been overlooked, some readers from the Browning Society, founded in 1887, preferring to see a philosopher in the poet, and some critics, like George Santayana, choosing to dismiss Browning’s ‘poetry of barbarism’. However, rereading today Browning’s poems through the prism of Freud’s theory of pleasure as a release of tension allows one to show Browning’s comical energy as it irrepressibly surfaces in his dramatic monologues. …”
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Building Bridges through Writing: An Interview with Rohini Bannerjee by Sara Casco-Solís

“…Her short stories and poetry—written in both French and English—explore themes of belonging, identity and body image. …”
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