Search results for " poetry"

Iconicity and Typography in Steve McCaffery's Panel-Poems

2007

This paper discusses Steve McCaffery's "Panel-Poems", first realized in the 1960s, with respect to the international context of concrete poetry and the emergence of a poetics of iconicity amongst a North-American avant-garde in the second half of the twentieth century. The material emphasis of McCaffery's poetry is played out typographically in his work "Carnival" (1967-75) through procedures that place the letter, the smallest denominator of language and the page in newly imagined networks of signification. The experiment with the environment of writing is sustained by a reliance upon the typewriter and other forms of scription that conceive of the reader as an active participant in the cr…

"Dis poem is still not written." A Study of Diamesic Variation in Jamaican Dub Poetry

2020

International audience; This paper looks at diamesic variation in the works of Jamaican and Anglo-Jamaican dub poets such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah and Mutabaruka. Dub poetry constitutes a turning point in the history of literature in Creole, since the genre achieved to establish Patwa as the legitimate medium for Caribbean writers, thereby effectively inverting (post)colonial linguistic hierarchies. Though closely associated with the reggae tradition, dub poets have always claimed to be doing “real” literature and published their work in written form as well as in audio or video recordings. The paper analyses various strategies to inscribe orality and orature in written t…

“Sometimes I Wanda/Who Will Translate/Dis/Fe de Inglish?” Strategies for Transcribing Jamaican Creole in the Dub Poems of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Be…

2019

International audience; The question of dialect has always been central to Caribbean literature, and more specifically to poetry. In a (post)colonial context of diglossia between standard English and Jamaican Creole, and of a strong hierarchy between oral and scribal forms of linguistic and literary expression, the mere possibility of writing ‘real’ literature in Patwa was severely contested until quite recently. Yet, an increasing number of poets have experimented with Creole over the course of the last century and have amply demonstrated that it is a legitimate medium for poetic and literary expression.This paper looks at various strategies employed by Anglo-Jamaican dub poets Linton Kwes…

« It Dread Inna Inglan », une chronique des luttes des Antillais au Royaume-Uni dans les poèmes de Linton Kwesi Johnson

2019

International audience; Linton Kwesi Johnson, dit LKJ, chanteur, poète et musicien de reggae s’est affirmé depuis les années 1960 comme un artiste noir de premier plan en Angleterre. Né en 1952 en Jamaïque, LKJ arrive à Londres parmi les dizaines de milliers d’immigrants antillais qui s’installent au Royaume-Uni à partir de l’après-guerre. Dans un contexte social tendu, marqué par le racisme et les violences policières auxquels font face les Antillais, LKJ développe une nouvelle forme d’expression artistique entre musique et poésie : la « dub poetry ». Ce faisant, il devient le porte-voix des luttes des Noirs pour leur reconnaissance au sein de la société britannique.

Contemporary Irish poets’ pictorial (self-)portraits

2012

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Corpus Dolorosus: Bodies in Sinéad Morrissey's Poetry

2013

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Petri György és a századvég magyar költészete

2013

Proclamation of the Biblical Readings in the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Syriac Churches

2016

In every liturgical family, including the Syriac ones, the proclamation of the Word of God belongs to the essential elements of the celebration. Although in the many communities sharing the same tradition of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis the practice of the biblical readings within the liturgy looks different there are some common elements. Among them one can list: a great respect towards the Bible (the book seen as a monstrance); the readings take place during the Liturgy of Catechumens; the readings from both the Old and New Testament are divided by the psalmodic chants; the practice of reading the Gospel is strictly reserved for the priest; the presence of the biblical poetry within the wh…

Los poetas ciegos y la ceguera en la poesía árabe: algunos casos destacados

2013

This paper deals with the verses of some relevant and famous blind Arab classical poets that talked about their blindness like the cases of al-A‛¿à, Ba¿¿ār ibn Burd and Abū-l-ɈAlā¿ al-Ma‛arrī among others. The study shows how each one of them faced his disability and the influence that their blindness had on their poetic production. This paper contains also the translation from the Arabic and tha analysis of the verses inspired by blindness to some seeing poets of Granada and the moderm Arabic poetry. El artículo se ocupa de los versos de algunos poetas árabes ciegos que se han hecho famosos en la literatura árabe clásica y que nos hablan de la ceguera como es el caso de al-A‛ à, Ba ār ibn …

Trwałe dziedzictwo Angelusa Silesiusa na przykładzie kościelnej pieśni „Jezu, Jezu do mnie przyjdź ”

2015

The literary legacy of Johannes Scheffler - Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), known in Polish as Silesian Angel, is one of the most precious jewels of culture created in Silesia in the 17th century. The poet became famous with a small collection of couplets Cherubinischer Wandersmann (Cherub wanderer), which tries to present the mystical path to God in a speculative way. Silesian Angel tried to show an affective way to God and the collection of poems Heilige Seelen-Lust (Holy joy of the soul) is a meaningful example. This work includes the song Die Psyche sehnt sich nach Jesu alleine (Psyche only longs Jesus). It gives basis for the church song Jesus, Jesus, come to me, which is still popular i…