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ISSN (Print) 0039-4238 - ISSN (Online) 2374-6629
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Poetry Lies: Poststructuralism and Robert Lowell's Idea of Literary
Representation
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  Abstract: Poets of confessionalism have long drawn readers' attention to their life and the connection between their works and their life. Biographical readings, thus, have been widespread in the criticism of their poems. Some critics have already discussed the problems of reading their poems biographically and have emphasized that being confessional is a rhetoric and a make-believe strategy in writing poetry. In other words, being confessional is not being truthful, but simply to sound truthful. The so-called poets of confessionalism never called themselves confessional poets. In "What Was Confessional Poetry," Diane Middlebrook notes that "[t]he label confessional was first applied, disapprovingly, to Robert Lowell's Life ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
"Life in death": Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer
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  Abstract: The traumatic experiences resulting from the extended cycles of violence, wars, and invasions have evoked death in the consciousness and memory of three generations of Iraqis as dramatized in The Corpse Washer, a novel by exiled Iraqi writer Sinan Antoon.1 Death inflicts many Iraqi families, rendering The Corpse Washer a bleak, dystopia fictionalization of Iraq after passing through major wars, including the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), the Gulf War (1990–1991), and the invasion of Iraq (2003).2 The novel depicts how these consecutive wars along with embargo, sectarian strife, terrorism, and dictatorship have turned Iraq into a wasteland. Death has become an inescapable nightmare for many Iraqi families without ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and
Anna Kavan's Ice
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  Abstract: In his discussion of various highly unruly and experimental narratives, Brian Richardson distinguishes between those works that remain relatively immersive and enjoyable and those that do not, even though both groups squarely belong in the domain of avant-garde and unnatural works. Among the former, he lists Anna Kavan's Ice (Richardson 73, 93), but does not discuss it extensively. Speculating on how Ice and few other narratives engage readers, he says "many of us move from confusion, to wonder, to curiosity, to pattern recognition, and to the appreciation of repetitions and variations as we mark the first presentation of new events and the rewriting of earlier ones. Our immersion is interrupted, dissolved, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
Yu Yan or Fable: The Earliest Introductions to The Canterbury Tales in
China
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  Abstract: Yu yan (寓言) is a way of argumentation and writing style in many different literary genres and has a history of over two thousand years in China (Chang Sen 145).1 In Zhuangzi (the middle to late Warring States Period), a foundational text of Daoism, yu yan is one of the basic expressions to persuade and explain truth through characters and stories from outside. Since the end of the Western Han Dynasty, other literary works in addition to Zhuangzi have also been recognized as yu yans. Siku Quanshu (1792), an encyclopedia of Chinese books in history, classifies many literary creations from the Warring States Period to the Qing Dynasty under yu yan. It is "the same method of artistic conception and expression" used in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
W. B. Yeats: An Unpublished Letter
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  Abstract: Lot 247 of New England auctions, Wednesday, October 18, 2023, consisted of a William Butler Yeats signed typed letter on his stationery 11 inches in height, 812inches wide. The letter sold for $850 to an unknown buyer. Dated "January 21, 1934," the unpublished letter is written from Riversdale, "picturesque but without pretension, it was a small, double-fronted eighteenth-century farmhouse, covered in Virginia creeper" where Yeats moved in the summer of 1932 (Foster). The recipient, a "Mr. Steward," remains unidentified (Dictionary of Irish Biography; Finneran et al.; Matthew and Harrison).1 However, "Dr. Claire Andrews" is probably the author Charles Freer Andrews (1871–1940)—author, campaigner for ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and
Female Opportunity by Linda K. Hughes (review)
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  Abstract: Linda K. Hughes's expansive, deeply researched book takes its title from her archive's chronological tail end: Vernon Lee's Genius Loci (1899). In the first of these collected travel writings, Lee relishes having found in Augsburg "the Germany which [she] loved . . . not the one which colonizes or makes cheap goods, or frightens the rest of the world in various ways; but the Germany which invented Christmas-trees, and Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Bach, and Mozart, and which seems to be vouched for in a good many works of classic literature: Jean Paul's 'Siebenkäs,' for instance, and Goethe's memoirs, and those of Jung Stilling" (13–14). Hughes adopts that quotation's first half as her epigraph, then uses it to spin out ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet by Leonard Neidorf (review)
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  Abstract: Leonard Neidorf's The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet is a short but ambitious monograph that raises the question of whether there is a better way to respond to Tolkien's "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics." After Tolkien argued for looking at the poem for what it is rather than what it could have been, scholars started taking the monsters for granted without querying why they are there. Neidorf returns to expectations generated by near-contemporary and analogous Germanic texts not to claim the poem is lacking, as scholars did before Tolkien's essay, but to investigate what unique choices the Beowulf poet made and why. He does so with a fairly broad argument: his discussion integrates a number of well-known ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy by Joan Peskin and
David Hanauer (review)
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  Abstract: A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy synthesizes a multidisciplinary body of theory and research around two key questions: What do we know about how people's developmental age, experience, and learning interact with their poetic literacy, and how can teachers and researchers use this knowledge to enrich the poetic experiences of students across their lifespan' To answer these questions, authors Joan Peskin and David Hanauer do a remarkable job integrating scholarship from developmental and social psychology, literary studies, neuroscience, and education, among other fields. We (Sarah and Madison, both researchers in cognitive poetics and teachers of language arts education) have not found a more ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading by Margaret H. Freeman
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  Abstract: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way'" (Todd 315). There is hardly a person in the world familiar with works by Emily Dickinson who has never heard of the way she describes her confrontation with poetry in a letter written on 17 August 1870 to Th. W. Higginson, a co-editor of her poetic collections. Bodily vibrations and experiences as they are, describe in the most tangible way what one feels once her life is nothing but craving for a word. Such passion is contagious, and this is exactly what, several decades ago ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature by
Jeremy Colangelo (review)
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  Abstract: Prominent disability studies, in light of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Lennard J. Davis, characterize the construction of ability either as a process of exclusion that produces a fixed concept of the abled body for social stigmatization, or as an inclusive yet discrete category that questions the stability of the abled body. Jeremy Colangelo's Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature acknowledges the critical concern over the abled body in disability studies, and proposes a further investigation into the mechanism for the construction of ability. He argues that "ability presumes a transparency of subject position, and of narrative position, such that the body in question is deemed to ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-03-13T00:00:00-05:00

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