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Derek Mahon's Literal Littorals
2012
International audience; A transversal reading of Derek Mahon's poems reveals his predilection for coastal landscapes: vistas of sea and seashore, harbour towns or seaside resorts. Suffused as they are with elemental symbolism (waves, wind, rain and storm, rocks, cliffs and misty piers), those liminal spaces take on a metaphysical dimension. The landscapes that the poet invests are the objective correlatives of his sense of alienation and vulnerability; they are mindscapes (paesagio mentale or reflections of the inner self) as much as territories to be paced and explored. This paper thus examines how the natural and the urban, the visual and the acoustic, the a-temporal and the modern or pos…
The Unpublished Drafts of Five Poems on Julian the Apostate by C. P. Cavafy
1981
The texts which are being published here for the first time are part of a group of drafts conserved in the Cavafy Archive, which George Savidis first brought to light; they are poems ‘which Cavafy did not have time to finish, and which he was considering with distress during the last months of his life. Carefully preserved by the poet himself in makeshift dossiers, each with its provisional title and the date, they cover the period from 1918 to 1932 and, together with the nearly completed drafts of a few already published poems… and of some unpublished but completed poems, offer us a unique, unexpected, extremely moving image of the stages of Cavafy’s creation’. Among these unfinished poems…
Una Poètica Dialògica: Atlas de Pere Salinas i Joan Navarro
2012
Pere Salinas and Joan Navarro initiated with Atlas (Correspondencia 2005-2007) a dialogue between painting and poetry. The book starts with a painting by Pere Salinas, which provokes a poem by Joan Navarro, which in turn provokes a painting. It continues this way until getting to 46 images and 46 poems. The concept of dialogism allows analyzing how alterity, the orientation towards a nonverbal answer, determines poetical writing. The poet, in his dialogue with each pictorial text, searches for new ways of expression that privilege the showing, from deictics to images, and this search leads to an experimentation that alters the entire poetical system. Time and space are not opposed. Painting…
Invention and Imagination in Sixteenth-Century English Literature
2014
This article discusses the all-important concepts of invention and imagination within the literary terminology of sixteenth-century England, viewing the former as a concept in transition associated with the rhetorical notion of ‘finding’ within a topical system as well as with ideas on the imagination, and connecting the latter with theories on the workings of the human mind. The conceptual discussion revolves around a selection of extracts taken from early modern dictionaries, works on rhetoric, and poetics, poems, and plays.
Linguistic Dilemma and Intertextuality in Contemporary Italian Poetry: the case of Andrea Zanzotto
2001
Ancient genres in the poem of a medieval humanist: Intertextual aspects of the “De sufficientia votorum suorum” (c. 126 H.) of Baudri de Bourgueil (1…
1995
In the second half of the 11th century, a humanist circle of clerical poets, living around the central valley of the Loire, was writing poetry in classical language and metre. Baudriu of Bougueil, who wrote an impressive corpus of Latin poems, was an expert in the language, style, verse, motifs and genres of the classical and later antique pagan and Christian poetry, and treated theological as well as profane and explicitly ancient topics. About 1107, when he was urged to become bishop and to abandon, his personal independence and quiet monastic life, he gave voice to his disgust of the new ecclesiastical burden by a long poem in elegiac distichs. This paper tries to show the ancient genres…
Henrik Wergeland's Bouquet: Fredrika Bremer, Sentimentality and Nationalism inJan van Huysum's Flower Piece
2015
Henrik Wergeland's poem Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke (1840) is often characterized as a key work of Norwegian and Nordic romanticism. Where previous criticism has primarily focused on the poem's ekphrastic dimension, this reading will draw attention to how it employs many forms and genres, at the same time examining neglected thematic strands in the poem. A key lead to the poem's generic placement is provided by its oft-overlooked front-page, paratextual dedication to the Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer. It will be argued that works by Bremer, such as Hemmet, not only provide some precedent for the ekphrastic dimension of Wergeland's poem, but more importantly reveal the latter text's un…
El Doble de la palabra. El mito de Eco en la literatura inglesa contemporánea
2011
El objetivo de este artículo es el estudio de la figura de Eco en la literatura contemporánea escrita en lengua inglesa a partir de trabajos de A.S. Byatt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Nicole Ward Jouve y Moniza Alvi entre otros. En poesía, teatro y relatos cortos, analizamos a Eco primero desde la literatura crítica publicada sobre la ninfa y posteriormente desde la perspectiva de oposiciones binarias uno/otro, metrópolis/colonia, palabra/silencio. Consideradas en conjunto, las obras revisadas en este artículo demuestran cómo la recepción del mito en la literatura contemporánea se encuentra estrechamente ligada a la evolución del concepto del doble en la cultura occidental. This article explore…
Ambivalent Déjà-vu: World War II in the poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
2021
This article addresses how the poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles enters into a dialogue with the memory of World War II. Poems by Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Sinéad Morrissey are analysed, showing how World War II is a controversial source of comparison for these poets. While World War II provides important ways of framing the suffering and claustrophobia of the Northern Irish conflict, evident differences also mean that such comparisons are handled warily and with some irony. The poems are highly self-conscious utterances that seek to unsettle and develop generic strategies in the light of traumatic suffering. This essay draws on Michael Rothberg’s concept of mult…