Search results for "literary influence"
showing 3 items of 3 documents
“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…
Els diàlegs socràtics de Llorenç Villalonga
2017
Per la seva condició d?inigualable narrador, Llorenç Villalonga ha estat estudiat des de múltiples vessants, també des de l?estudi de la tradició clàssica. Les seves dues obres de tema més eminentment clàssic, Fedra i Aquil·les o l?impossible, han estat àmpliament investigades. Aquest article, però, es dedica a repassar la influència de la figura de Sòcrates en l?obra de Villalonga, molt important a partir de la publicació de Bearn o la sala de les nines (1956), centrant-se, sobretot, en Diàlegs socràtics, un relat fascinant de l?autor mallorquí que tracta un dels punts centrals de l?obra de Villalonga, la mort, a través de la figura del pensador atenès, i que mai ha estat analitzat a fons.
El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu
2007
In the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of "La Vida Nova", which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and of presentation of the text will be analysed and, finally, the article will study the progressions that the exegesis of Dante's work determines in Montoliu's thought. This global vision will leave a redimensioned image of the critic which concerns the originality of his positions, and it will be demonstrated that the interpretati…