Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Book SynopsisNine renowned sinologists present a range of studies that display the riches of medieval Chinese verse in varied guises. All major verse-forms, including shi, fu, and ci, are examined, with a special focus on poetry’s negotiation with tradition and historical context. Dozens of previously untranslated works are here rendered in English for the first time, and readers will enter a literary culture that was deeply infused with imperatives of wit, learning, and empathy. Among the diverse topics met with in this volume are metaphysical poetry as a medium of social exchange, the place of ruins in Chinese poetry, the reality and imaginary of frontier borderlands, the enigma of misattribution, and how a 19th-century Frenchwoman discovered Tang poetry for the Western world. Contributors include Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Robert Joe Cutter, Ronald Egan, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen, Wendy Swartz, Ding Xiang Warner, and Pauline Yu.

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Book SynopsisControversial poetry played a crucial role in dealing with religious, political, and scholarly conflicts from 1400 until 1625. This volume analyses roles and functions of Latin, Italian, Dutch, German, Scots, and Hungarian poetry in specific historical controversies. A media theory of poetical impact is proposed by Franz-Josef Holznagel and Dieuwke van der Poel. Levente Seláf, Philipp Steinkamp, and Guillaume van Gemert examine the genres sung in wars, and in rulers’ controversies. Judith Keßler, Dirk Coigneau, Juliette Groenland, and Regina Toepfer analyse how female and male rhetoricians and humanists use verse in religious, municipal, and educational conflicts. Signe Rotter-Broman, Samuel Pakucs Willcocks†, and Alasdair A. MacDonald explain how reception strategies can shape cultural and political identities. Controversial Poetry 1400-1625 diskutiert den entscheidenden Einfluss von Controversial Poetry, Kontrovers-Dichtung, in Konflikten zwischen 1400 und 1625. Dafür werden die Rollen und Funktionen lateinischer, italienischer, niederländischer, deutscher, schottischer und ungarischer Dichtung in konkreten historischen Kontroversen analysiert. Eine Medientheorie der Beeinflussung durch Dichtung entwerfen Franz-Josef Holznagel and Dieuwke van der Poel. Levente Seláf, Philipp Steinkamp, and Guillaume van Gemert untersuchen verschiedene Gattungen gesungener Politik in Kriegen und Auseinandersetzungen von Herrschern. Judith Keßler, Dirk Coigneau, Juliette Groenland und Regina Töpfer analysieren, wie weibliche und männliche rederijkers und Humanisten Verse in konfessionellen, städtischen und Bildungs-Konflikten verwenden. Signe Rotter-Broman, Samuel Pakucs Willcocks† und Alasdair MacDonald erklären, wie Rezeptions-Strategien kulturelle und politische Identitäten gestalten können.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Role and Function of Poetry in Debate and Controversy (1400–1600)  Judith Keßler, Ursula Kundert and Johan Oosterman Part 1 Media Theory of Poetical Impact 1 wort and wîse: The German Art of Song in the 15th and 16th Centuries and Its Specific Potential Effects Shown on the Melody of “Die welt die hat ain thummen mut”  Franz-Josef Holznagel 2 The Power of Song  Dieuwke van der Poel Part 2 Genres of Sung Politics 3 Between Lyrics and Epics: The Great Turkish War in German, Italian and Hungarian Ereignisliedern  Levente Seláf 4 Dichtung als politische Propaganda? Die historisch-politische Ereignisdichtung zum Landshuter Erbfolgekrieg (1504/05)  Philipp Steinkamp 5 Der sprechende Held: Darstellungsstrategien des frühneuzeitlichen politischen Gedichts am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzungen um Heinrich den Jüngeren von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel und um Wilhelm von Oranien  Guillaume van Gemert Part 3 Usages by Rhetoricians and Humanists 6 Spitze Zunge gegen Luther  Judith Keßler 7 Poetry on Stage: The refrein in Rederijker Drama  Dirk Coigneau 8 Polemical Poetry and the Making of a Humanist School  Juliette Groenland 9 Medialität der Metrik: Eine Königsberger Bildungskontroverse um 1580 im Spiegel der Kasualdichtung  Regina Töpfer Part 4 Strategic Poetical Reception 10 Faccend’ogni Toscan di te tremare: Resonanzen politischer Kontroversen in Florentiner Liedsätzen um 1400  Signe Rotter-Broman 11 Michael Beheim’s Versifications of Popular Piety  Samuel Pakucs Willcocks 12 The Functionality of Lyric in Sixteenth-Century Scotland  Alasdair MacDonald Index

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Book SynopsisAnti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. GEORGE ELIOT AND TOLSTOY: THE HUMAN FACE – SUBSTANCE OR SPIRIT? CHAPTER II. POE AND GOGOL: THE FACE AS PRINCIPLE OF ORDER CHAPTER III. GOMBROWICZ AND WOOLF: THE FACE AS CULTURE CONCLUSION WORKS CITED

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Book SynopsisBovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher (Elyiahu ben Asher haLevi Ashkenazi, 1469-1549) is a chivalry poem written in Yiddish in Padoa, in the year 1507, and printed under the author's supervision in Isny (Germany) in the year 1541. The present book intends to present a critical edition of this poem, together with a commentary. An introduction will focus on various related questions, such as the place of the Bovo d'Antona in European literature and in Italian literature, Bovo d'Antona and the chivalric genre in Old Yiddish literature, the analysis of the manuscript versions in comparison with the printed edition, the relationship with the Italian source and the readership. An appendix will deal with later transformations of the Bovo-Bukh. "Bovo Bukh is an excellent example of the relationship between romances and folktales,and Rosenzweigʼs introduction and edition of this important early Yiddish text will be appreciated by scholars of early Modern literature and folk narrative." - Dr. David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in: Fabula 59:1-2 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Foreword 1. Preface 2. Introduction 2.1. Eliyahu ben Asher HaLevi Ashkenazi: His life and works 2.2. Bovo d’Antona in European literature in general and in Italian literature 2.3. Bovo d’Antona in Old Yiddish literature 3. Text with commentary 4. Appendix: Later transformations of the Bovo d’Antona: 17th–20th centuries Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRetraction Notice: Postscript (March, 2021): The Publisher notifies the readers that Chapter 2 of this volume (Dirk Obbink, “Ten Poems of Sappho: Provenance, Authenticity, and Text of the New Sappho Papyri”) has been retracted. For more information please view the statement by the editors in the Retraction Notice in the front matter of this volume and on page 9 of the Introduction. The reasons for this retraction include the serious doubts that have been raised in the years following the publication of this edited volume about the provenance of the newest Sappho papyri (P. Sapph. Obbink and P GC. inv.105). In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and André Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of the 20th century, provides significant new readings and additions to five previously known songs of Sappho (frs. 5, 9, 16, 17 and 18), as well as the remains of four previously unknown songs, including the new Brothers Song and the Kypris Song. The contributors discuss the content of these poems as well as the consequence they have for our understanding of Sappho’s life and work.Trade Review"The turnaround from initial publication of the fragments to the present volume going to press in September 2015—barely eighteen months—is an impressive feat for which the editors are to be congratulated. (...) this is a useful, thought-provoking, and important contribution to the study of Sappho. Every paper has something of value to offer, and many will retain a place of importance in the bibliography for years to come." Alexander Dale, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.32

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Book SynopsisThe Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also their understanding in modern scholarship. By focusing on the relationship between the visual and the verbal as well as the sensory and the mental, this volume raises a wide range of questions concerning human perception and cultural practices. As this collection of essays shows, Greek lyric poetry played a decisive role in the shaping of both.Trade Review"This volume is a substantial and welcome addition to the burgeoning field of ancient sensory studies. As a conference proceedings of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, it vividly illustrates (as befits a study of vision) how traditional methods of analyzing Greek lyric can be fruitfully applied to new questions: here, the role and nature of sight and spectator in the lyric corpus. (...) Given this concentration on visuality as both an embodied practice as well as a feature of poetics, this volume is also richly interdisciplinary. Numerous essays put lyric texts into dialogue with sculpture, architecture, and painting in order to contextualize lyric within a broader visual culture, and this is one of the great strengths of the collection.(...) All in all, this volume comprises an invaluable resource for scholars of archaic and classical lyric and art and will prove equally useful for anyone interested in visual dynamics in the ancient world. The bibliography for each essay is thorough and up to date, further bolstering the work's utility." Amy Lather, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.02.38

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Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Eobanus Hessus turns from passionate Erasmian into staunch defender of Luther, only to find himself caught in the no-man’s-land between the two titans. Under Erasmus’ spell, he writes "Itinerary of My Journey to Erasmus," "On the Restoration of Studies at Erfurt," epigrams against Edward Lee, and "Short Preface to the 'Enchiridion.'" Changing course in 1521, he publishes "Elegies in Praise and Defense of Luther" and "Letter of the Afflicted Church to Luther." Thereafter, amid tumults and academic collapse, he battles the radical preachers in "Some Letters of Illustrious Men Concerning the More Humane Studies" and "Three Dialogues." Two elegies serve as intermezzos: a "Consolation" to the imprisoned William of Brunswick and a patriotic "Invective" against Johannes Dantiscus.Trade Review“As in previous volumes Vredeveld has produced a lively and accurate translation and has expertly provided all the necessary aids and accoutrements for the understanding of the text. He gives precise descriptions of all first editions and the printing history of all the works, some of which were available online while others were inspected in situ in various libraries in Europe and America. Some notes, essential to understanding the context, are conveniently placed at the foot of the page, while a great abundance of the sources of Eobanus’s poetic diction and allusions is contained in the supplementary notes at the end of the volume. Besides the usual identification of classical sources there are multiple references to Renaissance poets, such as Poliziano, Pontano, Mantuan, Konrad Celtis, and many other less known writers, a truly extraordinary feat of documentation. This is another exemplary edition of Germany’s finest Renaissance poet.” Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1645-1647.

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Book SynopsisThe volume dedicates itself to the rather neglected field of political poetry and offers a broad perspective across the centuries from Plato until the post-war period. The first part describes the social function of poetry in Plato, his reception in Heidegger and in Ezra Pound’s poetry. A contribution on Milton complements this with a great poet`s reflection on central political questions. The second part, pre 20th century, is rounded off by two rulers from the edges of Europe or Asia who left their mark both on history and on the literary history of their country: the Georgian king Teimuraz I and the Persian ruler Shah Ismail. This theme is continued in the last contribution dedicated to an outstanding combination of political and poetic talent from recent history, Mao Zedong. Two other contributions refer to the epoch of WWI, Europe`s big cultural caesura, and they dedicate themselves to two eminently influential figures, Stefan George and Vladimir Mayakowsky.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction by the Editor Basic Reflections 1. The Poet as Demiourge in Plato, Dominic O’Meara 2. Dichtung und Politik bei Martin Heidegger, Bogdan Mincă 3. Ethik- Politik- Dichtung. Pounds Patria Mia, Ralf Lüfter The Seventeenth Century 4. The Greatest King among Poets, the Greatest Poet among Kings: the Poetry of King Teimuraz I, Donald Rayfield 5. Knowledge After the Fall. Milton and the Question of Censorship, Friederike Schmiga The First World War 6. Stefan George als politischer Dichter, Hans-Christian Günther 7. Patriotism and Pacifism. The Year 1914 for Futurist Vladimir Mayakovskiĭ, Luigi Magarotto Beyond Europe: 8. Dichtung, Propaganda und Polemik im Konflikt zwischen Schah Isma‘īl und Sultan Selīm, Max Scherberger 9. Maos Gedichte – Versuch einer soziagogischen Analyse, Harro von Senger Index

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Book SynopsisIn Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s—poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda’s explorations of place, including how the ‘world’s energy’ becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one’s arms. Réda embodies ‘being there, almost’ because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world’s rhythms and time’s passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda’s works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.Trade Review"Prevots offre une vision panoramique de la biographie et de l’oeuvre de Réda, témoignant ainsi d’une connaissance étendue sur le sujet. Il fait aussi bien référence à des souvenirs d’enfance de l’auteur pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale qu’à ses réflexions contemporaines sur la science et le capitalisme. Il examine aussi des textes venant de toutes les époques et de tous les genres. De plus, Prevots démontre une maîtrise approfondie des thèmes, du style et des réflexions de l’écrivain dans les nombreuses lectures rapprochées qu’il entreprend." - Aurélie Van de Wiele, French Review, 91.4.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The World’s Sweep, Breadth, and Spark 1. Early Prose and Poetry: Toward an Expansive Voice 2. Writing Travel: Poetic Circulation 3. Trains and Circulation: Amplified ‘Phenomenal Flow’ 4. Youth Past and Present: Prismatic Childhood Identity 5. The Poet as Music Critic: Swing and Jazz 6. ‘Floating Bridges’: Ancient and Modern Influences Conclusion: Being There, Almost Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIf the transgressions of modern French poetry have been amply noted at thematic and formal levels, they remain largely unremarked at the most visceral level of reading. Indebted to, while problematizing the Kristevan concept of sémiotique, Scott Shinabargar’s The Revolting Body of Poetry reveals how the very “matter” of key works forces us to enact these transgressions, when articulating textures of offensive lexica and imagery. While certain phonemes provide access to previously untapped forces, first apparent in Baudelaire and Lautréamont, compulsive repetitions produce expressive inflation, diffusing any initial impact. Césaire and Char, however, demonstrate an acquired control of these forces, intensity contained. Shinabargar concludes with a survey of contemporary poets, inviting readers to consider the legacy of revolting poetics.Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Part I: Revolutions 1 La diction du mal: Baudelaire 2 An Exaggerated Scale of Evil: Lautréamont Part II: Revolitions 3 Grounding Force: Césaire 4 In the Wind’s Gold: Char Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDirect Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca is the first extensive study of speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (5th century AD). It presents an in-depth analysis of the narrative functions of direct speech and their implications for the presentation of the epic story. The digital appendix to this book (Database of Direct Speech in Greek Epic Poetry) can be consulted online at www.dsgep.ugent.be.Trade Review‘Dans un contexte où les études consacrées à la poésie tardive et plus particulière ment aux hexamètres «homérisants» de Nonnos de Panopolis sont florissantes, l’ouvrage de Berenice Verehlst, issu d’une thèse soutenue en 2014, apporte sa pierre à un édifice dont la forme se dessine de plus en plus précisément.’ Halima Benchikh-Lehocine, in Aitia vol. 8.2 (2018)Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Variation or Incoherence; Virtue or Vice? Direct Speech in the Dionysiaca Objectives and Approaches part 1 - Epic Speech in Transformation 1 Imitation and Transformation: From Troy to India and from Medea to Morrheus 1.1 Speeches and Dialogues in the Διὸς ἀπάτη Episode 1.2 A Speech for a Speech: Apollonius Inverted 1.3 Nonnus and Quintus (or Libanius): Τίνας ἂν εἴποι λόγους; 1.4 Speech Composition and Narrative Structures 2 Types of Epic Speech: The Battle Exhortation 2.1 Defining the Corpus: The Epic and the Historiographical Tradition 2.2 Exhortations in Nonnus: Subtypes of the Battle Exhortation 2.3 Exhortative Topoi and Recurring Motifs in Nonnus 2.4 Selected Examples: Untraditional Exhortations in Nonnus 2.5 Epic and Rhetorical Conventions 3 Speeches within Speeches 3.1 Potential τις-Speech in Nonnus: A Homeric Device Revived 3.2 More Hypothetical Speeches 3.3 Hypothetical Speech, a “Nonnian” Device part 2 - Rhetoric and Narrative 4 The Rhetoric of Deception: Persuasive Strategies 4.1 Deceptive Speeches 4.2 Speaking in Disguise: ἦθος, πάθος and Authority 4.3 Hera’s Deception of Semele: A Case Study 4.4 True or False? As Long as It is Artful 5 Ecphrastic Ethopoeae and the Perspective of the Text-Internal Observer 5.1 Suddenly Appearing Characters and Their Speeches 5.2 Looking through the Text-Internal Observer’s Eyes 5.3 Comments from Above 5.4 A Double Role 6 Rhetoric of Seduction and Failure of Communication in the Beroe Episode 6.1 Amatory Rhetoric: The Case of the παρθένοι φυγόδεμνοι 6.2 Beirut and Beroe 6.3 Dionysus and Poseidon Courting Beroe: A Series of Amorous Approaches 6.4 Fruitless Metaphors and Arguments Unheard Conclusion One More Speech: Aura’s Last Words Οὔ πω μῦθος ἔληγε: General Observations on Direct Speech in Nonnus Appendix - Summary of the Dionysiaca Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisRégis Lefort envisage le phénomène de renversement, que ne cesse de convoquer Bernard Vargaftig dans son œuvre, comme une esthétique poétique, comme l’identité même du poème. Commençant par le dernier vers et remontant jusqu’au premier, le poète creuse la langue du poème pour en identifier la source. Régis Lefort investigates how the phenomenon of reversal, present throughout the writing of Bernard Vargaftig, constitutes a poetic aesthetic and the very identity of the poem. Beginning with the last line and working back to the first, the poet burrows deep into the language of the poem to identify its source.Table of ContentsTable des matières Remerciements Table des reproduction 1 Introduction: Esthétique du renversement 2 L’homme, l’œuvre 3 On n’y comprend rien 4 Bruna la lumière 5 L’énigme, le réel 6 Du silence à la convergence 7 L’enfance et son sillage 8 Les mots du poème 9 Espace, temps, distance. De la vitesse à l’image impossible 10 Le compagnonnage avec les peintres 11 S’orienter dans la lecture de: Un récit 12 Conclusion: Rester dans l’énigme du vivant 13 Entretien avec Bruna Zanchi Vargaftig 14 Photographies 15 Anthologie Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIn National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the concept of cultural sainthood in the context of nationalism as a form of invisible religion, identify major shifts in canonization practices from antiquity to the nationally-motivated commemoration of the nineteenth century, and explore the afterlives of two national poets, Slovenia's France Prešeren and Iceland's Jónas Hallgrímsson. The book presents a useful analytical model of canonization for further studies on cultural sainthood and opens up fruitful perspectives for the understanding of national movements.Trade Review'One of the most exciting comparative literary projects to appear in recent years is the Cultural Saints of the European Nation States (CSENS) project [...] Both the project and the book National Poets, Cultural Saints Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe by Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason are ambitious in scope, and their framework has proven to be a benchmark for any such studies for years to come. The combination of a comparative literature approach, cultural memory studies, and the embracement of a new theory relating to the construction of cultural saints, national poets, and cultural nationalism is truly convincing.' Kim Simonsen (University of Amsterdam), in: Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, Volume 06 (2017), pp. 121-123.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Figures, Charts, Tables, and Maps ... xi Introduction ... 1 PART 1: Towards a Theory of Cultural Sainthood 1 Remembering the Dead: Contexts of Cultural Sainthood ... 11 Cultural Memory and Invisible Religion ... 14 Nationalism and Civil Religion ... 23 Relics, Rituals, and Postulators ... 29 2 Commemorative Cults of Poets and Writers: A Historical Perspective ... 35 From Poets’ Hero Cults to the Concept of Canonicity ... 36 Medieval and Early Modern Europe: From “Poets Laureate” to the Petrarch Cult ... 42 The Cult of Centenary and Denkmalwut ... 51 Ritual and Cult as the Core of Commemorative Culture ... 58 The Rise of National Poets as Paradigmatic Cultural Saints ... 61 3 The Canonization of Cultural Saints: A Dynamic Model ... 71 Canonization, Canon, and Cultural Saints ... 72 Vita: Potentials of the Individual for Canonization ... 78 Cultus: The Production and Reproduction of Canonical Status ... 81 Effectus: Consequences for Society at Large ... 91 PART 2: National Poets from the European Periphery: Two Case Studies 4 “Glory to Prešeren!”: Canonizing a Paradigmatic Cultural Saint ... 99 Examining the Threads of Vita ... 100 Opera: Poetic Cult and the “European Level” ... 106 A Prelude to Canonization: The Tombstones ... 111 Vodnik, the “First Slovenian Poet” ... 115 The Prešeren Centenary and the Monument to the National Genius ... 122 From the Monument to the National Anthem ... 134 The “Slovenian Cultural Syndrome” ... 144 5 “I Sensed Your Desire for Your Home”: Postulators of the Memory of Jónas Hallgrímsson ... 149 Vita and Persona: Prešeren’s Nordic Twin ... 150 Opera and Acta: “His Story Still Can Make the Heart Beat High” ... 155 Postulators: The Role of Friends and Relatives ... 160 The Jónas Monument and the Icelandic Flag ... 168 The Translation and Reburial of the Poet’s Relics ... 176 Cultural Saints and Cultural Capital ... 185 Epilogue ... 189 Bibliography ... 205 Index of Names ... 226

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Book SynopsisIn The Babylonian Disputation Poems Enrique Jiménez studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems that feature discussions between animals and trees. Using intertextual parallels and comparison with similar works in other literatures, he espouses a new classification of the Babylonian disputation poems as parodies. After examining neighboring traditions of literary disputation, he argues that the Babylonian poems influenced them, and that some may have been translated from Akkadian to Aramaic, from Aramaic and Syriac to Arabic. In addition, The Babylonian Disputation Poems provides editions of several previously unpublished Babylonian disputations, such as Palm and Vine and the Series of the Spider. It also offers the first edition of the latest known Babylonian fable, The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren. “The present book is an exemplary model for editing and commenting upon ancient texts, and almost every approach has been taken into account.” -Markham J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)Trade Review“The present book is an exemplary model for editing and commenting upon ancient texts, and almost every approach has been taken into account. Apart from accurate critical editions, the author provides detailed discussions of the genre, Sitz im Leben, style, and reception history of disputation poems in general and of each individual text. Detailed remarks elucidate individual philological points, such as the identification of the laurel tree, which add great interest to general discussions of theory.” - Markham J. Geller, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2019Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations I. The Mesopotamian Disputation Poems II. The Series of the Poplar III. Palm and Vine IV. The Series of the Spider V. The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren VI.1. Series of the Fox VIII. Bibliography A Syriac Dialogue Poem between the Vine and Cedar by Dawid bar Pawlos Indices  

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Book SynopsisAuthorship and Greek Song is a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of authorship in the song culture of Ancient Greece. In this cultural context the idea of the poet as author of his poems is complicated by the fact that poetry in archaic Greece circulated as songs performed for a variety of audiences, both local and “global” (Panhellenic). The volume’s chapters discuss questions about the importance of the singers/performers; the nature of the performance occasion; the status of the poet; the authority of the poet/author and/or that of the performer; and the issues of authenticity arising when poems are composed under a given poet’s name. The volume offers discussions of major authors such as Pindar, Sappho, and Theognis.Trade Review"Insgesamt lässt sich an den Beiträgen des Bandes die aktuelle Forschungsdiskussion zum Thema Autorschaft in der Archaik gut nachvollziehen. (...) Vielmehr bieten die durchweg spannenden und qualitätvollen Beiträge en gros Rekonstruktionsversuche einer performativen Ästhetik archaischer Dichtung. Diese Rekonstruktionsarbeit einer uns auf den ersten Blick unwiederbringlich verlorenen Erfahrung ist der größte und verdienstvollste Ertrag dieses Sammelbandes." - Markus Hafner, in: Gnomon 7.90.2018 "This volume then appears as an important and very welcome contribution to the study of the archaic and classical Greek song. With their wealth of suggestions, strong critical engagement with the ancient sources, knowledge of the research of other scholars who have preceded them on such matters, and careful philological approach, the authors of these essays open new and stimulating perspectives on Greek song. Their essays encourage further scholarship in engaging with poetic texts, in order to reconstruct the socio-political contexts of their origins and reperformances, and the survival of their authors’ background and aims as the ‘seal’ of authority that transmits ethical and cultural values to future generations throughout the Greek world." - Antonietta Provenza, in: Greek and Roman Musical Studies Vol. 7 (2019)

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Book SynopsisPoètes français du 21ème siècle : entretiens est un document unique sur la poésie française au tournant du 21ème siècle. Il s’agit d’un recueil de dix-sept entretiens de poètes contemporains, menés par Nathalie Wourm, avec une introduction critique. Poètes français du 21ème siècle : entretiens represents a unique document on turn of the 21st century French poetry. It is a collection of seventeen interviews of contemporary poets, conducted by Nathalie Wourm, with a critical introduction.Trade Review"This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in French poetry of the last thirty years. Through fascinating interviews with fourteen poets and two publishers, Nathalie Wourm succeeds in delineating the parameters and motivations of some of the most innovative contemporary poetic practice while also allowing the diversity of that practice to emerge." - Fabienne Cheung in French Studies, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2018. "...une contribution originale, riche et bienvenue au discours critique sur cette production." - Éric Trudel, The French Review, 92.3, March 2019.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anne-James Chaton Anne Portugal Olivier Cadiot Pierre Alferi Éric Sadin Jean-Michel Espitallier Christophe Hanna Nathalie Quintane Christian Prigent Charles Pennequin Vannina Maestri et Jacques Sivan Jérôme Game Jean-Marie Gleize Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens Laurent Cauwet

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Book SynopsisFollowing the footsteps of Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano, Anne Mounic explores the relationships between poetry and philosophy, trying to understand why Plato dismissed poets from his Republic and thus drew an enduring dividing line between reason and myth, reason and imagination. A la suite de certaines analyses de la philosophe espagnole Maria Zambrano, Anne Mounic explore les relations entre poésie et philosophie, s’interrogeant sur les raisons du rejet des poètes par Platon qui dissocia ainsi durablement la raison du mythe, la raison de l’imagination.Trade Review"Cette étude se propose d’explorer en profondeur un sillon occulté de la tradition littéraire française et européenne au travers de penseurs-poètes qui ont fondé un courant de la modernité qui mérite une attention pleine et renouvelée eu égard à leur questionnement radical de la dimension éthique de la création, de la responsabilité de l’écrivain, et de la puissance sans pouvoir du concept de la dissidence (poétique, philosophique et politique)." Hugues Azérad, French Studies 73-2, 2019.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre 1 Vie hasardeuse et violence philosophique Philosophie et poésie de Maria Zambrano Chapitre 2 Poésie et politique Dissidence poétique européenne au vingtième siècle Chapitre 3 Charles Baudelaire et Søren Kierkegaard Ethique du commencement et œuvre La valeur de l’instant serti sur l’infini Chapitre 4 Benjamin Fondane et Léon Chestov Une dissidence partagée ; deux voix distinctes Chapitre 5 Le sujet poétique ou L’audace de commencer Ouverture Le questionnement poétique et philosophique Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisJeux de mots célèbre le pouvoir créateur des jeux de langage dans la littérature de Rabelais à Richard Millet. Calembour, mot-valise, bon mot, néologisme, mot-fétiche : ce volume collectif explore la productivité des mots en prose et en poésie. Jeux de mots celebrates the creative power of wordplay from Rabelais to present times. Puns, portmanteaus, ‘bon mots’, neologisms, fetish-words: this collective volume explores the productivity of words in prose and poetry.Trade Review"ce livre est une célébration du pouvoir créateur du jeu de mots, de sa puissance critique, de sa dimension intertextuelle et métalinguistique et – last but not least – du plaisir qu’il peut engendrer." Maaike Koffeman, Relief, revue électronique de littérature française, 13 (1) 2019, pp. 178-182.Table of ContentsAnnelies Schulte Nordholt, Introduction : Quand les mots font l’amour I. Jeux d’onomastique littéraire - Richard Millet, La gloire du nom - Sjef Houppermans, Un né de goupil (sur Richard Millet) - Angela Moorjani, Proustian Masquerades: “I” or “not-I”? - Paul J. Smith, Variations sur le nom de Rabelais - Franc Schuerewegen, Des lits, des vachers, de Shakespeare et d’Ernst Kantorowicz II. Jeux de lexique et de registre - Luc Fraisse, « C’est une horreur de mot. C’est à vous faire tomber vos dents de sagesse ». Mots fétiches et mots haïs dans la langue de Proust - Jan Baetens, « Peut-être ne suis-je poète… » (sur Léon-Paul Fargue) - Mireille Calle Gruber, Le mot qu’il faut. Sur Princesse Vieille Reine de Pascal Quignard - Sabine van Wesemael, Une guerre des langages ou comment Lydie Salvayre s’engage dans une lutte contre les stéréotypes III. L’écriture à contraintes et la prose - Hermes Salceda, Le Procédé évolué de Raymond Roussel : devenir-machine à travers le langage - Manet van Montfrans, Jeux de mots, lieux de mémoire. Sur Parc Sauvage et autres récits brefs de Jacques Roubaud - Annelies Schulte Nordholt, Perec, la Chartrédalle et la plate bosse IV. Contraintes poétiques - Johan Rooryck, Le sonnet en X de Mallarmé: néant phonologique et miroitement syntaxique - Nicolaas van Toorn, Le monostique d’Apollinaire ou les contorsions d’un vers solitaire - Wim Tigges, Prosody as Field of Play: A Neglected Issue in the Translation of Nonsense Verse V. Au-delà du discours littéraire - Alicia Montoya, Des chenilles aux papillons : une scène primitive de la littérature de jeunesse au XVIIIe siècle - Bruno Clément, Un jeu de mots de Bergson - Peter Verstraeten, Odd Men In: Intouchables Index des noms propres Données personnelles sur les auteurs

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Book SynopsisPaul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.Trade ReviewIt is thorough and smart, theoretically savvy and deeply engaged with practical readings of the poems. It will add to the critical work that has already been written on Muldoon and be of great use to both the general reader and the academic one. [Jefferson Holdridge], Wake Forest UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 New Weather 2 Mules 3 Why Brownlee Left 4 Quoof 5 Meeting the British 6 Madoc 7 The Annals of Chile 8 Hay 9 Moy Sand and Gravel 10 Horse Latitudes 11 Maggot 12 One Thousand Things Worth Knowing Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, completed by the poet Firdausi around 1010 AD. This long epic grew out to be an icon of Persian culture and served as a source of inspiration for art and literature, leaving its traces in manifold ways. The contributors to this volume each treat an aspect of the rich legacy of the Shahnama and offer new insights in Shahnama manuscript studies, the illustration of the Shahnama, the phenomenon of later epics, and the Shahnama in later texts and contexts.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors Note on Citations of the Shahnama Introduction Part 1: The Reception of the Shahnama: Later Epics 1 Banu Gushasp in the Shahnama: A Case Study of the British Library Ms. Or. 2926 and the Interpolated Banu Gushaspnama  Marjolijn van Zutphen 2 The Demon Barkhiyas at the Well of Bizhan  Charles Melville 3 Rustam’s Grandson in Central Asia: The Sistan Cycle Epics and the Shahnama Tradition  Gabrielle van den Berg 4 The Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Persian Epics: The Case of the Barzunama in the Haft Lashkar  Kumiko Yamamoto 5 A New manuscript of the ShahrIyArnAma attributed to Mukhtari of Ghazna from the collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust  Maria Szuppe Part 2: The Shahnama in Later Contexts 6 The Shahnama in Timurid Historiography  Michele Bernardini 7 The Sulaiman-nama (Süleyman-name) as an Historical Source  Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz 8 A Storyteller’s Shahnama: Meddâh Medhî and His Şehnâme-i̇ Türkî  Tülün Derğirmenci 9 The Shahnama Legacy in a Late 15th-Century Illustrated Copy of Ibn HusAm’s Khavaran-nama, the GulistAn Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750  Raya Shani Part 3: Textual Studies 10 Persian Medieval rewriters between auctoritas and authorship: the Story of Khusrau and Shirin as a case-study  Christine van Ruymbeke 11 Rebels, Virtuous Adorers And Successors: The Agentic Daughters of the Shahnama  Alyssa Gabbay Part 4: Art History and Manuscript Studies 12 Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva: Two Unpublished lustre Tiles with Shahnama verses  Firuza Melville 13 Illustration as Localization: A Dispersed bijapuri Manuscript of the shahnama  Laura Weinstein 14 The Baysunghuri Manuscript in the Malek National Library   Shiva Mihan General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a variety of poetic traditions, including the Homeric epics, the hieratic hymns of the Ṛgveda, the Gathas of the Avesta, early Latin and the Sabellic compositions, Germanic alliterative verse, Insular Celtic court poetry, and Tocharian metrical texts. The studies treat a broad range of topics, including the prehistory of the hexameter, the nature of Homeric formulae, the structure of Vedic verse, rhythm in the Gathas, and the relationship between Germanic and Celtic poetic traditions. The volume contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetic form, and how they change over time.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field of Poema de mio Cid studies. It provides an informed introduction to key literary aspects of the poem, and thoroughly examines many of the complex issues that are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the work (historical context, ideological motivations, prosification in medieval chronicles, the poem’s place in the canon of Spanish literature). Equally important are the new findings that have been put forward since the 1970s, when scholars started to challenge Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s theories that had dominated the philological discourse since the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributors are Matthew Bailey, Simon Barton, Francisco Bautista, Juan Carlos Bayo Julve, Federico Corriente, Leonardo Funes, Luis Galván, Fernando Gómez Redondo, Eukene Lacarra Lanz, Salvatore Luongo, Georges Martin, Alberto Montaner, Javier Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes Vaquero, Roger Wright, and Irene Zaderenko.Trade Review'This volume provides a lively and necessary introduction to recent scholarly work on the poem [...] All in all, essays are clearly written and useful on their own, and function as excellent introductions to their authors' important work on the Poema de mio Cid from very different perspectives. But what is perhaps most satisfying is how the volume maps out areas of consensus and disagreement through the multifaceted dialogue between its contributions, which will stimulate further research'. Clara Pascual-Argente, in Bulletin of Spanish Studies , 6, July 2019. "This review cannot do justice to the wealth of information in the volume. Following the spirit of the series, the participants have written their articles with the aim of providing a critical and bibliographical assessment of central issues. It is commendable that the editors let scholars show their expertise by arguing their own (conflicting) research agendas, allowing the reader to navigate different critical avenues. This will be an indispensable tool for all scholars interested in the poem and Spanish medieval epics. For those outside the field of medieval Hispanism, the Companion provides a detailed introduction to this peculiar epic poem and makes available in English a thorough presentation of up-to-date interpretations. In sum, the volume shows the richness of current research on the poem and the continued elusiveness of a masterpiece that is still fertile ground for intellectual disagreements. This Companion is shaped by the vitality of these conflicts and eloquently presents multiple analytical approaches and the vibrant research that this poem has produced". Óscar Martín, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021).Table of ContentsContents Prologue  Irene Zaderenko and Alberto Montaner List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Codex and the Author Introduction 1 The Poema de mio Cid as Text: Manuscript Transmission and Editorial Politics  Alberto Montaner 2 The Question of Authorship  Irene Zaderenko Part 2: Linguistic Aspects 3 Why was the Poema de mio Cid Written Down the Way It was?  Roger Wright 4 A Closer Look at the Poema de mio Cid’s Language  Javier Rodríguez Molina 5 On the Arabic Loanwords in the Poema de mio Cid  Federico Corriente Part 3: Poetic Aspects and Structure 6 On the Poetic Technique of the Poema de mio Cid  Juan Carlos Bayo Julve 7 “Mio Cid Ruy Díaz odredes lo que dixo”: The Voice of the Narrator, the Voice of the Characters  Salvatore Luongo 8 Oral Expression in the Poema de mio Cid  Matthew Bailey 9 Episodic Logic and the Structure of the Poema de mio Cid  Leonardo Funes Part 4: Historical Aspects 10 The Historical Context of the Poema de mio Cid  Simon Barton 11 Social Structures and Values in the Poema de mio Cid  Georges Martin 12 Legal Aspects of the Poema de mio Cid  Eukene Lacarra Lanz Part 5: The Poema de mio Cid in the Cultural History of Spain 13 The Poema de mio Cidand the Canon of the Spanish Epic Revisited  Mercedes Vaquero 14 The Poema de mio Cid in 13th and 14th-Century Romance Historiography  Francisco Bautista 15 The Cidian Matter in the 15th Century  Fernando Gómez Redondo 16 The Canonization of the Poema de mio Cid from the 18th to the 20th Century  Luis Galván Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy, Matteo Soranzo offers the first in-depth study of the life and works of Augurello, Italian alchemist, poet and art connoisseur from the time of Giorgione. Analysed, annotated and translated into English for the first time, Augurello’s poetry reveals a unique blend of late medieval alchemical doctrines, Northern Italian antiquarianism and Marsilio Ficino’s Platonism, enriching conventional narratives of Renaissance humanism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary of Chrysopoeia and Other Alchemical Poems Editorial Introduction Figures Ad Marsilium Ficinum Florentinum in Livorem—Against Envy for Marsilio Ficino from Florence Ad Vincentium Quirinum P.V. Vellus Aureum—The Golden Fleece for Vincenzo Quirini, Patrician from Venice Alberto Vonico, Tarvisino Equiti et Iureconsulto χρυσοποιία—Chrysopoeia for Alberto Onigo, Knight and Jurist from Treviso Ioanni Aurelii Augurelli Chrysopoeia—Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’s Chrysopoeia  Ad Leonem X Pontificem Maximum—For Leo X, Greatest Pontiff  Liber Primus—First Book  Liber Secundus—Second Book  Liber Tertius—Third Book Ad Antonium Vonicam Tarvisinum—For Antonio Oniga from Treviso Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke Xiaoli Yang offers a conversation between the Chinese soul-searching found in Haizi’s (1964–1989) poetry and the gospel of Jesus Christ through Luke’s testimony. It creates a unique contextual poetic lens that appreciates a generation of the Chinese homecoming journey through Haizi’s poetry, and explores its relationship with Jesus Christ. As the dialogical journey, it names four stages of homecoming—roots, vision, journey and arrival. By taking an interdisciplinary approach—literary study, inter-cultural dialogue and comparative theology, Xiaoli Yang convincingly demonstrates that the common language between the poet Haizi and the Lukan Jesus provides a crucial and rich source of data for an ongoing table conversation between culture and faith.Trade Review"This book is a masterpiece not only on Haizi studies, but also on cross-cultural studies and comparative theology, with original contributions to these fields of study. (...) Through literary studies, intertextual and intercultural dialogue, and comparative theology, this book creatively and insightfully uses a unique set of cultural and poetic lenses to unfold a dialogue between the contemporary Chinese poet Haizi and the Gospel of Luke's Jesus beyond time and space." Chen Yongtao, Professor of Theology and Chinese Christian Studies, Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, in: Chinese version, p. xiii. "Yang’s trailblazing book demonstrates her ability to enrich the intellectual conversation between theology and culture. (...) Yang’s book benefits scholars and students in various disciplines, including World Christianity, Intercultural Studies, and Spiritual Formation. She also offers profound insights on land and identity that will enrich postcolonial conversations. Yang brilliantly discerns the parallels and systematically ascertains the points of resonance between soul-searching and spiritual hunger.", Susangeline Patrick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, in: International Bulletin of Mission ResearchVolume 46.3 (2022). "But now and then something appears that gives one hope that things can change and the theological conversation might connect to things people deeply care about. One such event is the recent publication of Xiaoli Yang’s Dialogue between Haizi’s poetry and the Gospel of Luke (2018). (...) it is in the rereading of Luke’s Gospel in the light of Haizi’s poetry, that Yang, who is a poet herself, breaks open the different textures of [these] soteriological paths.", William Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary, in: Exchange Volume 51 (2022). "Yang presents an equally skillful exegetical analysis of the Gospel of Luke, gesturing toward Jesus Christ’s ministry as dynamic conversation partner that is resonant with Haizi’s search. (...) Altogether, the beauty of Yang’s work is in the way she is able to dance between the registers of academic analysis and spiritual formation." - Easten Law, , in: China Source, 16 March 2022. "This is a singular book. I do not recall reading another that weaves together poetry and literary analysis, biblical studies, photographs, philosophy, philology, intercultural studies, and theology. It is remarkable! " — Daryl Ireland, Boston University, in: International Review of Mission (2021) Volume 110.1. "The fruitfulness of Yang’s engagement with Haizi should cause us to wonder, if we are going to give leadership to the church in a secular age, whether we should attend more to the poets of our times. Could it be that in reading the poets—not just religious poets—we will be able to get past the distraction of our age and find a way to attend to the inner sensibilities of the human soul in this time and in this place?" — Gordon T. Smith, Ambrose University, in: Wisdom from Babylon (IVP, 2020) "It is a publication that deserves to be widely read by scholars and students alike; it offers a unique contribution to contemporary Chinese interaction with the Gospel." — Randall Prior, University of Divinity, Melbourne, in: Mission Studies (2020) Volume 37.1 "This could turn out to be one of the most significant books in Missiology published in 2018." — Larry Nemer, Yarra Theological Union, in: Australian Journal of Mission Studies (2019) Volume 13.2 "This is no mere correlationist project wherein Haizi provides the questions and Luke(‘s Jesus) responds. Instead, there is a dizzying multi-directionality through which various chasms – East-West, Yin-Yang, ancient-contemporary, modern-postmodern, rural-urban, terrestrial-cosmic, poetic-philosophical, symbolic-discursive, epistemological-ontological, immanence-transcendence – are bridged, irreversibly through the Dao of Haizi’s suicide and ultimately through the way of Jesus’ cross. Yang herself emerges as poet giving profound expression to the contemporary global (dis)location, as prophet naming and diagnosing its instable homelessness, and as priest mediating the possibility of a fresh gospel homecoming precisely in and through the desolation of late modernity’s interface with the post-Mao Chinese soul. The word Dialogue in the title is too modest; be forewarned of the tremors this book will unleash to those who think philosophy and theology are mostly discursive Western undertakings." — Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary "A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke is a welcome contribution to the field of intercultural theology. It skillfully employs together four lenses for hermeneutical reading – the historical, literary, philosophical, and religious — to see freshly Luke and the message of Jesus, now heard along with the poetry of Haizi (1964-1989), a voice still new in the West. Drawing poetry into the work of intercultural learning, Xiaoli Yang also brings new resources from the Chinese context into theological reflection, giving new substance to the ideals and practices of an Asian Christian theology. Comparative theologians too will enjoy learning from Yang’s methods and purposes, broadening our repertoire for the work of interreligious theological learning today." — Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard University "This book offers us an insight into the souls of the contemporary Chinese genuine intellectuals, who have lost their cultural and spiritual home. Through the unique approach combining literary study, intercultural dialogue and comparative theology, Ms. Yang helps us get to such a highland, where we could see clearly the home way of an honest genius poet who committed suicide but never ‘died’, and more importantly, see why millions of Chinese people today are struggling to leave their homeland for new home in foreign land, and for the heavenly home to be with Jesus Christ." — He Guanghu, Professor of Religious Studies, Renmin University of China "Historical events claim our attention and can generate a desire to rethink our own philosophical stance. Haizi agonized over social realities of his day through his poetry and ultimately through suicide. This is a fascinating yet tragic personal revelation. The advantage of this tragedy is that it opens up for the reader an opportunity to reflect on one’s own ideas. Dr Xiaoli Yang’s book provides some assistance in this by outlining how one can dialogue with Haizi’s poetry and compare the thinking with another historical figure, Jesus, who also challenged attitudes of the day and finally was killed for his revelations." —David Claydon, OAM; previous International Director of the Lausanne Movement; author & theological lecturerTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Haizi: The Poet Who Never ‘Dies’   Introduction   Definitions and Limitations   Two Decades of Research on Haizi (1989–2016)   Methodology   Personal Perspectives   Summary Part 1: Roots 2 Haizi: Beyond Homelessness   Introduction   Creation Myth   Songs of the Homeland   Summary 3 Jesus: Quest for Home   Introduction   The Roots of Humanity   The Identity   A Home Beyond Borders   The Homeless Homeland   Summary Part 2: Vision 4 Haizi: Returning Home—Chinese Huijia   Introduction   A Cultural Premise—The Etymology   Xiangchou   The Movement towards Homecoming   The Ethics of Home   Summary 5 Jesus: the Hospitality of God   Introduction   Casting the Vision   Table Fellowship   Summary Part 3: Journey 6 Haizi: Seeking a Home   Introduction   Poetic Adoption from the Greeks   Learning from the Quest of Modern Movements   Returning Home—Hui   Summary 7 Jesus: Embodying the Kingdom   Introduction   The Movement of the Journey   The Way of the Cross   The Way of Brokenness   Summary Part 4: Arrival 8 Haizi: The Death of a Poet   Introduction   The Task of a Poet   Songs of Death   Self-Surrender   Summary 9 Jesus: Passion to Embrace   Introduction   The Radical Openness of God   The Radical Vulnerability of God   Summary Conclusion Afterword Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Map of Brava in Regional Context Introduction Note on the Primary Sources of This Publication Reference List to the Poets and Their Poems Annotated List of Islamic Scholars and Texts Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi The Poems Sheikh Uways Biography Sheikh Uways’s Poem  1 Aḻfeeni msaḻiḻeeni (Ask God to bless him two thousand times) Sheikh Qasim Biography Sheikh Qasim’s Poems  1 Daada Maasiṯi nsoomela duʾa (Dada Masiti, pray for me)  2 Chidirke ya Rasuuḻ Aḻḻah (Rescue us, O Prophet of God)  3 Salaaṯun saḻaamun ʿala aḻ-Musṯafa (Peace and blessings upon the Chosen One)  4 Meezi wa keendra (In the ninth month)  5 Hamziyyah, Jisi gani khpaandra mitume anbiya (Hamziyyah or How could the other prophets rise?)  6 Ḻa ilaaha ntaku Maʾabuudi wa haqi (There is no god but the true God)  7 Nakaanza khṯuunga marjaani (I start stringing coral beads)  8 Ya Sheekhi Abduḻqaadiri (O Shaykh ʿAbdulqādir)  9 Ya Nabiyi salaam ʿaleika (O Prophet, peace be upon you)  10 Ndruuza kasaani sowṯiya (O Brothers, listen to my voice) Dada Masiti Biography Dada Masiti’s Poems  1 Baʾdi ya hayy ni mowṯi (After life comes death)  2 Sayyid Jamaladiini (Sayyid Jamaladdin)  3 Ya Rabbi ya Muṯaʾaali (O Lord, You who are Exalted)  4 Sharru ḻ-bilaadi (The evil that plagues the country)  5 Ya Rabbi ya Rahmaani (O Lord, You who are Compassionate)  6 Mowḻaana Muhyidiini (O our lord Muḥyī al-Dīn)  7 Aḻḻahu Akbar Aḻḻaahu (God is the Greatest, O God)  8 Sayyidi yiitu Siṯeeni (O our Lady) Mallim Nuri Biography Mallim Nuri’s Poems  1 Shṯeenzi cha ahḻu al-sabri (The poem of those who were steadfast in adversity)  2 Shṯeenzi cha Aʾisha (The poem of Aʾisha)  3 Shṯeenzi cha Aamina (The poem of Amina)  4 Mooja mreheme Aṯeeni (O God, have mercy upon Ateni)  5 Chidirke Maana Faaṯima (Rescue us, O Lady Fatima!)  6 Shṯeenzi cha masadaaṯi (The poem of the Sharifs)  7 Shṯeenzi cha Hasani na Huseeni (The poem of Hassan and Hussein)  8 Shṯeenzi cha Haawa na Aadamu (The poem of Ḥawwāʾ (Eve) and Adam)  9 Shṯeenzi cha kibri (The poem of pride)  10 Madad madad (Come to our help O Prophet)  11 Shṯeenzi cha mahaaji (The poem of the pilgrims)  12 Shṯeenzi cha miʾraaji (The poem of the miʿrāj)  13 Mooja chiloongole (May God guide us)  14 Mooja ondrola d̲h̲ibu (O God, remove troubles)  15 Mṯawasuleeni Musṯafa (Seek the intercession of the Chosen One)  16 Shṯeenzi cha sabri (The poem of forbearance)  17 Shṯeenzi cha sala ṯimaamu (The poem of the correct prayer)  18 Shṯeenzi cha Sayyida Khadija (The poem of Lady Khadija)  19 Shṯeenzi cha Sheikh Nureeni (The poem of Sheikh Nureni)  20 Shṯeenzi cha Faaṯima (The poem of Fatima)  21 Shṯeenzi cha hijja (The poem of the pilgrimage)  22 Shṯeenzi cha soomu (The poem of fasting)  23 Shṯeenzi cha udhʾhiya (The poem of ritual sacrifice)  24 Zubadi (The Cream) Sheikh Mohamed Sufi Biography Sheikh Mohamed Sufi’s Poems  1 Aadhaḻḻe aadha (Beware! Beware!)  2 Akhuaaniza kasaani (Listen to me, O brothers)  3 Salaaṯu na amaani (Blessings and peace upon the Prophet)  4 Susumuki (Will you not wake up?)  5 Iyi ni bishaara (These are glad tidings) Abastide Mohamed Sheikh Abba Biography Abastide Mohamed Sheikh Abba’s Poems  1 Yā man yarā wa lā yurā (O you who see and are not seen)  2 Sheekhi Imaamu aḻ-Ghazaali (O Sheikh Imam al-Ghazālī)  3 Mtume shtiilo galadi na fadhiila (Through the Prophet we attain God’s support and favour) Appendix 1: Names of God Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 2: Names and Attributes of the Prophet Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 3: Names of Fatima Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 4: Names of Angels Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 5: Names of Prophets Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 6: Musical Annotation of the Sṯeenzi Glossary Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisLes Fables de La Fontaine, relevant d’un art de l’écho savant, aménagent aussi une intertextualité interne. Leurs douze Livres regroupent des fables qui avaient déjà circulé séparément et dont la mise en série ne laisse pas de créer quelquefois de fort curieuses irisations. La Fontaine’s Fables cultivate a sophisticated art of subtle echoes. They also set up occasionally a discreet internal intertextuality: the twelve Books of the definitive edition group texts that had already circulated separately and create somewhere brief series with very surprising iridescences.Table of ContentsContents Notices sur les auteurs Résumés des articles Introduction La Fontaine au jardin des fables. Diptyques, parallèles et reflets dans le livre I de 1668  Patrick Dandrey Les diptyques facétieux du Livre III  Tiphaine Rolland Bornons ici cette carrière… La fin du Premier Recueil et les pratiques sérielles dans les fabliers pré-lafontainiens  Paul J. Smith Les Deux Amiset leur(s) double(s)  Paul Pelckmans Actes divers de la diversité : l’œuvre subtile du Livre IX  Yves Le Pestipon Daphnis et Alcimadure et Philémon et Baucis, un diptyque éthique et esthétique  Julien Bardot Fables sans animaux  Marc Escola Accouplements ambigus  Sjef Houppermans En guise d’Epilogue : La Fontaine, Rancé, Marie Du Bois et quelques autres  Paul Pelckmans

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Book SynopsisHomer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagogic dimension of the Iliad and the Odyssey as perceived by later thinkers and writers interested in the parameters of good rule, such as Plato, Philodemus, Polybius, Vergil, and Eustathios.Trade Review"This fine collection of papers examines the Homeric poems as Mirrors for Princes. Although other works have studied pedagogical aspects of the Homeric poems, there has been no full-scale examination of Homer as an educator for rulers. The present study presents many facets of the topic, ranging from Homer's original pedagogical intent, to classical, medieval and modern views of Homer as a guide for those in positions of authority.(...) Moving from the Homeric to the modern period, this book offers a broad look at Homer's influence on educating the ruler and on pedagogy in general. (...) each chapter makes a worthy contribution to the topic, and the book opens many further avenues for study." Scott Goins, CJ-Online 2019.09.06.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond: Introduction  Jacqueline Klooster and Baukje van den Berg The Birth of the Princes’ Mirror in the Homeric Epics  Irene J.F. de Jong Between Gods and Mortals: The Piety of Homeric Kings  Will Desmond A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds: The Reception of Phoenix’ Educational Ideal  Jacqueline Klooster Plato’s Homer as a Guide for Moderation and Obedience  Patrick G. Lake The Problem with the Prince: Agamemnon in the Ancient Exegetical Tradition on Homer  Elsa Bouchard Educating Kings through Travel: The Wanderings of Odysseus as a Mental Model in Polybius’ Histories  Maria Gerolemou Some Critical Themes in Philodemus’ On the Good King According to Homer  Jeffrey Fish Eumaeus, Evander, and Augustus: Dionysius and Virgil on Noble Simplicity  Casper C. de Jonge Speaking Homer to Power: Anecdotes of Greek Intellectuals and Their Rulers in Plutarch’s Symposia  David F. Driscoll Homeric Ideals Versus Roman Realities? Civil War, Autocracy, and the Reception of Homer in Silius Italicus’ Punica  Elina Pyy Homer and the Good Ruler in the ‘Age of Rhetoric’: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Excellent Oratory  Baukje van den Berg On the Good King According to Homer: A Sixteenth-Century Treatise by Christophoros Kondoleon  Filippomaria Pontani ‘Royal Blood Will Stain My Spear’: Satire, Trauma, and Semi-barbarous Princelings in Robert Graves’ The Anger of Achilles  Laura McKenzie Index Locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop’s book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et poïein, agnose et reconnaissance. Seize études sur la poésie française et francophone contemporaine.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Biographical Note 1 Yves Bonnefoy, La Grande Ourse: Voice, Consciousness, Presence, Naming 2 Jacqueline Risset, Les Instants: Epiphany, (Un)groundedness, Trial, Desire 3 Salah Stétié, L’Être: Embodiment, Void, Unfiguredness, Uraeus 4 Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Le Livre des Suppliques: Hauntedness, Vigilance, Fable, Circularity 5 Tahar Ben Jelloun, Que la Blessure se Ferme: Light, Love, Passion, Paradox 6 André Velter, L’amour Extrême: Absoluteness, Relativity, Fury, Marvel 7 Marie-Claire Bancquart, Tracé du Vivant: Primordiality, Rites, Question, Rebirth 8 Jean-Claude Pinson, Alphabet Cyrillique: Dailiness, Autobiopoiesis, Freedom, Resistance 9 Jacques Dupin, Le Grésil: Ubac and Adret, Individuation and Pleroma A Few Closing Remarks Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Poet of Jordan, William Tamplin presents two decades’ worth of the political poetry of Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya, a Bedouin poet from Jordan and a public figure whose voice channels a popular strain of popular Arab political thought. Tamplin’s footnoted translations are supplemented with a biography, interviews, and pictures in order to contextualize the man behind the poetry. The aesthetics and politics of vernacular Arabic poetry have long gone undervalued. By offering a close study of the life and work of Hajaya, Tamplin demonstrates the impact that one poet’s voice can have on the people and leaders of the contemporary Middle East.Table of ContentsContents Foreword   Clive Holes Acknowledgements Preliminary Note Introduction   Bedouins and Jordan   Bedouin Poetry   The Hajaya Tribe   Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya Part 1: The Poems Balm of the Wound Not a Baathist, Not a Commie Oh Condoleezza Rice! Camel Dung Nevermore, Oh Muammar My Pain is Great Fear the Noose Flower of the Whites and the Blacks Occupy My Heart Daughter of Tough Men Flower of the Mossad The Lost Right Stock Market of My Love Obama’s Victory Our Jordan Noblest of the Fallen The Arab Spring Message to the Lion Bashar Message to Putin of the Russians Twenty-One Countries Think of Poor Steven! Day of Succession Lehitra⁠ʾot Fight Fire with Fire Brave Men Slaughtered Yemen’s Gone Don’t Think about Maryam Crocodile Tears The West’s Crafty Men Stand Together Stalin Unite the Jews and the Arabs! I’m the Leader! Child Killer Theater of Corruption Spring of Disaster Free Arabs’ Revolt Fire-Hot Stakes Don’t Slaughter Us! They Don’t Care about Dhiban Taste the Honey! Ivanka Khalid ibn al-Walid Abu Ivanka When Will America Lead Again? Part 2: Interviews Interview #1 Interview #2 Interview #3 Interview #4 Part 3: Pictures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the various paraphrastic techniques employed by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD) for his poetic version of the Gospel of John. The authors look at Nonnus’ Paraphrase, the only extant poetic Greek paraphrase of the New Testament, in the light of ancient rhetorical theory while also exploring its multi-faceted relationship with poetic tradition and the theological debates of its era. The study shows how interpretation, cardinal both in ancient literary criticism and in theology, is exploited in a poem that is exegetical both from a philological and a Christian point of view and adheres, at the same time, to the literary principles of Hellenistic times and late antiquity.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors I Introduction  Laura Franco  A An Evanescent Figure  B Dates and Chronology  C The Dionysiaca  D The Paraphrase  E Nonnus’ Influence: A Brief Overview  F Nonnus’ Paraphrastic Technique: Rhetorical Tradition and Poetic Creativity  G Aims of the Present Study II The Rhetorical Background to the Paraphrase in the Light of Ancient Rhetorical Treatises  Claudia Greco, except for B.1.a.iii (Claudia Greco, Maria Ypsilanti)  A Poetry and Rhetoric  B Ancient Rhetorical Treatises and Paraphrastic Technique  C Paraphrase as a School Exercise. The Chreia. III Non-amplificatory Paraphrase  Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  A Literal Paraphrasis   Laura Franco, Maria Ypsilanti  B Abbreviations and Conflations   Laura Franco, Maria Ypsilanti  C Sequence and Transpositions   Laura Franco IV Amplificatio  Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  A Periphrasis   Maria Ypsilanti  B Synonymic Amplificatio and Verbal / Adjectival Accumulation   Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  C Explanations   Maria Ypsilanti, Laura Franco  D Imagery with Theological Significance   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  E “Theatrical” Elements: Impressive Visualisation, Description of Scenery, Effects of Sound   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  F Handling of Speech (Direct / Indirect / Dialogue)   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  G Character Sketching: Between Theatricality, Exegesis and Ethopoea   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  H Interpretatio   Introductory Essay: Laura Franco V Conclusions  Maria Ypsilanti Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.) is of great literary value to the field of Greek epic. It is a stylistic imitation of Homer and recounts what Iliad and Odyssey have left untold of the Trojan War. Tine Scheijnen offers the first linear study of this still little-known poem. Progressing from book 1 to 14, she focusses on key issues such as Homeric similes and characterization of heroes (especially Achilles and his son Neoptolemus). Ideologically, Quintus engages in a critical way with Homer, but possibly also Vergil, Triphiodorus and tragedy. Scheijnen’s work can be read as a thorough introduction to Quintus’ Posthomerica, while also offering new insights into Homer reception, the conception of heroes and heroism in Greek epic.Trade Review"Im Mittelpunkt stehen Betrachtungen über das episch- heroische Heldenbild, und diese werden durchgehend mit der Methodik des intertextuellen bzw. intratextuellen Vergleichs durchgeführt (...) Sprachlich ist das Buch mit einer Sorgfalt gestaltet, die man selten in Werken mit so umfangreichen griechischen Zitaten findet" - Thomas Gärtner, in: BMCR 2019.06.46 "The book offers an introduction to the Posthomerica, Homeric reception in the epic, and current debates in Quintus scholarship. Scheijnen extensively references the views of other scholars, always making sure to define her own position on the matter in question. (...) Scheijnen’s monograph is a product of the new road in Quintus Studies that accepts the presence of a versatility of ideological frameworks and frictions between different perspectives within the text. The analysis convinces one that Quintus is not just trying to be an alter Homerus but writes a literary work of his own, shaping the rich Trojan tradition in new ways that pose exciting questions for further exploration." - Baukje van den Berg, in: Medioevo greco 19 (2019) "Die Verfasserin hat mit diesem Band eine willkommene Ergänzung zur Quintus-Forschung geleistet. (...) In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der bisherigen Forschungsliteratur zu den Posthomerica – sie hat die einschlägige Sekundärliteratur äußerst sorgfältig zusammengestellt – hat sie, mit Schwerpunkt auf dem literarischen Einfluss der homerischen Epen auf Quintus Smyrnaeus, in Bezug auf die Charakterisierung der Helden der Posthomerica viele Themen klargestellt und aufschlussreich behandelt." - Georgios P. Tsomis, in: Plekos 21 (2019) "To begin: this is a beautifully produced and splendid book. Scheijnen provides a quasi-commentary on extensive sections of the epic, such that her book admirably encourages a constant reengagement with the text. (...) If there is a supreme virtue to Scheijen's book, it is her comprehensiveness. (...) In fine, those who already delight in Quintus' epic will be thrilled anew by Scheijnen's masterful work. Those who want to know more about the author of the "things Homer didn't tell" cannot do better for a reliable, well-documented introduction to the poem's major themes. Lastly, those who despise Quintus as an author scarcely to be bothered with would do well to let Scheijnen convince them otherwise. (...) Scheijen deserves first place for her reliable, sympathetic and detailed treatment of one of the last great surviving epics of antiquity." - Lee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University, in CJ-Online 2020.10.08.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1.1 About the Posthomerica  1.2 Focus: Homeric Heroes and Heroism  1.3 Approach: Characters between Tradition and Plot Structure Part 1 Heroic Characters 2 Penthesilea and Memnon: Two Ways to Fight Achilles  2.1 Penthesilea  Excursus: Thersites  2.2 Parallel Compositions  2.3 Memnon  2.4 Towards Posthomerica 3: a Sealed Fate 3 The Death and Inheritance of Achilles  3.1 Achilles: Iliadic power  3.2 Ajax: Achilleic power  3.3 Odysseus: the Power of Speech  3.4 Towards a Posthomeric Future: Who Will Win? 4 Neoptolemus, a New Aeacid in the Field  4.1 Great Expectations  4.2 Meet the Son of a Father  4.3 Overview: What’s in a Name?  4.4 Towards the Sack … Rival Killed; What’s Next? Part 2 Heroism and the Sack of Troy 5 Reconsidering Heroic Tactics  5.1 Change of Plan, Recipe for Disaster?  5.2 Heroes, May the Force Be with You  Excursus: Neoptolemus in Triphiodorus  5.3 When a Plan Comes Together 6 Suffering Trojans, Victorious Achaeans  6.1 Terror in the Streets  6.2 The Gift of Mercy  6.3 Why Sack a City?  6.4 Towards Book 14: Unfinished Business 7 Heroic and Divine Power  7.1 The Morning After  7.2 The Holy Father  7.3 Stormy Weather  7.4 The End towards the Odyssey Conclusion: Worthy of the Aeacids? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery – similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes – as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning.Trade Review"This volume provides a welcome redirection of these efforts by starting from the idea that didactic is first and foremost poetry and therefore explicable by the major approaches usually followed in the analysis of ancient poetry (especially intertextuality). (...) As a result, the book under review will be essential reading for all scholars of ancient hexameter poetry and for those who work on any didactic poet covered in its various chapters. (...) The editors are to be commended for providing a remarkably cohesive volume of papers written by a group of renowned scholars at the top of their powers. Cumulatively, these essays make an important contribution to most of the major scholarly issues involved in the study of didactic poetry. Essential reading, then, that will remain so for the foreseeable future." Jason Nethercut, BMCR 2022.10.02

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Book SynopsisThrough the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity’s foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus’ work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet’s reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus’ profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus  Alexandros Kampakoglou Part 1 Author and Text 1 A Poet’s Lives  Tom Phillips 2 Theocritus’ Textual History and Tradition  Claudio Meliadò 3 Theocritus’ Dialects  Olga Tribulato 4 “Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel”: The Forms of Theocritean Poetry  Jan Kwapisz Part 2 Genres and Models 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry  Giulio Massimilla 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15  Sarah Miles 7 Theocritus’ Hymns and “Epyllia”: Poems 13, 22, 24, 26  Alexander Sens 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of “Theocritus”  Taylor S. Coughlan 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer  Richard Hunter 10 Pan’s Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus  Alexandros Kampakoglou 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns)  Christophe Cusset Part 3 Poetics and Aesthetics 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus  Lara Pagani 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus’ Idylls: A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης  Evina Sistakou 14 Theocritus’ Contest Poems  Karl-Heinz Stanzel 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus  Jacqueline Klooster 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts  Évelyne Prioux Part 4 Narrative and Themes 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus  Andrew D. Morrison 18 Theocritean Spaces  William G. Thalmann 19 Theocritus and the Rural World  Viola Palmieri 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus  Annemarie Ambühl 21 Eros and the Pastoral  David Konstan Part 5 Contexts and Topics 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries  Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus  Dee L. Clayman 24 Theocritus’ Intercultural Poetics  Frederick T. Griffiths 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus  Ivana Petrovic 26 Women in Theocritus  Poulheria Kyriakou Part 6 Imitation and Reception 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus  Poulheria Kyriakou 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil’s Eclogues  Brian W. Breed 29 The King’s Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry  Joseph D. Reed 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition  Evangelos Karakasis 31 Theocritus and Longus  Ewen Bowie 32 “Simple Theocritus” from the 16th to 18th Centuries  Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry  Juan C. Pellicer Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores various perceptions, adaptations and appropriations of both the personality and the writings of Horace in the early modern age. The fifteen essays in this book are devoted to uncharted facets of the reception of Horace and thus substantially broaden our picture of the Horatian tradition. Special attention is given to the legacy of Horace in the visual arts and in music, beyond the domain of letters. By focusing on the multiple channels through which the influence of Horace was felt and transmitted, this volume aims to present instances of the Horatian heritage across the media, and to stimulate a more thorough reflection on an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace. Contributors: Veronica Brandis, Philippe Canguilhem, Giacomo Comiati, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Carolin A. Giere, Inga Mai Groote, Luke B.T. Houghton, Chris Joby, Marc Laureys, Grantley McDonald, Lukas Reddemann, Bernd Roling, Robert Seidel, Marcela Slavíková, Paul J. Smith, and Tijana Žakula.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Some Introductory Thoughts on the Reception of Horace in the Early Modern Age  Marc Laureys Part 1: The Reception of the Ars Poetica as a Model for the Theory of Painting, Drama, Diplomacy, Cookery and Other Arts 2 Rethinking Horace in Dutch Classicist Art Theory and in the Theory of Poetry and Drama: Gerard de Lairesse and Andries Pels  Tijana Žakula 3 From Poetry to Cookery, Architecture, and Stock-Jobbing: Imitation and Parodia of Horace’s Ars Poetica in 18th-Century England  Lukas Reddemann Part 2: The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts 4 The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts, 15th Century until ca. 1840: A First Exploration  Karl A.E. Enenkel 5 Vaenius’s Pluri-Medial Horace: Images for Contemplation, Primer of Philosophy, Iconological Templates for Artists, Latin Commonplace Book, and Vernacular Emblem Book  Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith Part 3: Horace and Music 6 Before Melopoiae: Conrad Celtis, Laurentius Corvinus, Arnold Wöstefeld and the Use of Music in the Teaching and Performance of Horace’s Metres around 1500  Grantley McDonald 7 Horace among Early Modern Teachers and Music Theorists: Poetics and Songs  Inga Mai Groote 8 Singing Horace in Sixteenth-Century France: A Reappraisal of the Sources and Their Interpretation  Philippe Canguilhem Part 4: Other Materializations of Horace: School Book Production and Funeral Inscriptions 9 Librum pulcherrimum et utilissimum edidit: Editions of Horace by Johannes Honorius Cubitensis (c.1465–1504)  Marcela Slavíková 10 Horace and Sepulchral Sapphics – Some English Examples  Luke B.T. Houghton Part 5: The Reception of the Odes in Early Modern Lyrical Poetry 11 The Reception of the “Horatian Hymn” in Quattrocento Neo-Latin Poetry: Aurelius Laurentius Albrisius and Giovanni Pontano  Carolin A. Giere 12 Horace across Seventeenth-Century Italian Literature: Carlo de’ Dottori and his Odes  Giacomo Comiati 13 “As closely as possible after the model of Horace”? Degrees of Horatianism in James Alban Gibbes’ Lyric Poetry  Marc Laureys 14 On the Reception of Horace’s Carmen Saeculare in the Early Modern Period  Veronika Brandis and Robert Seidel Part 6: Horatian Topics and Commonplaces 15 John Cruso of Norwich and the Reception of Horatius Sententiosus in Early Modern Provincial England  Christopher Joby 16 De laudibus vitae rusticae: Horace’s Second Epode and the Tradition of Georgic Poetry  Bernd Roling Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisVolume 2 of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic presents seven articles. Contributors explore the poetry of Homer, Hesiod, and Empedocles, investigate the nature of formulaic language, reveal Greek tragedy’s connections with epic, and study the characters of Ganymede and Hekamede. This diverse collection will be of interest to all students and scholars of ancient Greek epic. Contributors are: Joel P. Christensen, Xavier Gheerbrant, Ahuvia Kahane, Lynn Kozak, Bruce Louden, Sheila Murnaghan, Polyxeni Strolonga.Trade Review"The volume, like YAGE 1 (2017), shows clear interpretive focus on the Homeric epics, but individual contributions pursue innovative and ingenious approaches to the poems, often drawing on theoretical frameworks from other fields of scholarly research. The result is an anthology of current scholarship with an impressive breadth of topics ranging from minor interpretive problems to questions addressing the development and tradition of the genre as a whole." - Fabian Horn, in: BMCR 2019.03.18 "In conclusion, the papers presented above clearly explore variable aspects of the archaic epic tradition mixed with Greek tragedy, ancient mythographers, Empedocles and the concept of Fandom and Fan studies. There is much more in this volume of YAGE to provoke further thoughts and reflections about archaic Greek epic poetry. (…) there is coherence and power to the method in general, and it is a valuable series journal, not only for scholars or students, but also for anyone who wants to investigate thoroughly epic reception from archaic to late antique literature." - Manolis Spanakis, in: CJ-Online, 2019.11.08

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Book SynopsisFor the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad’s revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur’anic notion of a divine “sign” validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction—Words Beneath Words 1 Traveling with an American Qur’an: Sandow Birk and the Thirty Mosques in Thirty Days Project  1 Plurality Across 30 Mosques  2 Everyday Bonds: Living Muslim Lives in America  3 Assembling the Stories of 30 Mosques  4 Sandow Birk and Scenes for an American Qur’an  5 Bending Borders in an American Qur’an  6 Tradition as a Ritual Process of Communication 2 “Learning to Pray All Over”: The Body in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry and Fiction  1 Marvelous Women  2 The Language of the Body  3 (Un)moored  4 Just Being 3 “Are You A Muslim or Will You Love?” Dropping the Veil in Kazim Ali’s Writing  1 The Body in Space  2 Patterns in and of the Body 4 Begun in Mystery: Ayad Akhtar’s Fiction and Drama  1 Visible Lives, Invisible Hands  2 The Invisible Hand  3 Akhtar’s Islam  4 Faith and the Body  5 Disgraced 5 “Sometimes I Feel Me”: Between Faith and Resistance in the Poetry of Blackamerican Islam  1 Amir Sulaiman  2 Blueprint 6 Where Hope Begins: The Intertextual Worlds of Rabih Alameddine  1 Intertextual Violence and Identity  2 Violence, Identity, Hope Conclusion—“Half In, Half Out”: Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the Rescue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practices emerges as well as questions surrounding authorship and authority in the making of vernacular cultures. Specialists of Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, Malay, Pashto, Sanskrit, Urdu, Turkish, and Bengali thus provide a unique connected account of the conception and reception of Jāmī’s works throughout the Eurasian continent and maritime Southeast Asia.Trade Review"Man muss die Herausgeber bewundern ob ihrer editorischen […] Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, dass eine solche Kreativität weiter bestanden hat. Das war auch und vor allem an deren Rändern weiter der Fall. Dass darauf hingewiesen wird, ist einer der Vorzüge dieses Buches. Der andere ist, dass hier einem Universalgelehrten islamischer Kultur ein Denkmal gesetzt worden ist, das anderen Forschern Anlass zu weiteren Bemühungen um die Werke dieses bedeutenden Mannes geben wird.“ Peter Heine in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 115/4–5 (2020)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Thibaut d’Hubert and Alexandre Papas Part 1: The Routes of Books 1 A Case of Literary Success The Spread of Jāmī’s Poetical Works throughout the Near East  Francis Richard 2 Approaching Jāmī through Visual Culture The Popularization of Yūsuf-Zulaykhā in Persianate Societies  Sunil Sharma 3 Jāmī and the Ottomans  Hamid Algar 4 Scholar, Saint, and Poet Jāmī in the Indo-Muslim World  Muzaffar Alam 5 The Arab Reception of Jāmī in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries al-Fawāʾid al-ḍiyāʾiyya and al-Durra al-fākhira  Florian Schwarz 6 Nūr al-dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī in Sufi Writings in Malay  Mohamad Nasrin Nasir Part 2: Translating Islam and Sufism 7 Before the Safavid-Ottoman Conflict Jāmī and Sectarianism in Timurid Iran and Iraq  Sajjad H. Rizvi 8 Trading Pearls for Beads Jāmī’s Qaṣīdas in Praise of Sulṭān Yaʿqūb and their Significance to Āq Quyūnlū History  Chad Lingwood 9 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī and the Ottoman Linguistic Tradition Philosophy of Language and ʿIlm al-Waḍʿ  Ertuğrul Ökten 10 Jāmī’s Statement on the Authorship of the Anīs al-ṭālibīn  Alexey Khismatulin 11 Jāmī’s Sharḥ-i rubāʿiyyāt dar vaḥdat-i vujūd Merging Akbarian Doctrine, Naqshbandī Practice, and Persian Mystical Quatrain  Eve Feuillebois 12 The Recreation of Jāmī’s Lavāʾiḥ by Ḥamza Fanṣūrī  Paul Wormser 13 Individual Sanctity and Islamization in the Ṭabaqāt Books of Jāmī, Navāʾī, Lāmiʿī, and Some Others  Alexandre Papas 14 Jāmī and his Texts in China Proper  Yiming Shen Part 3: Beyond the Seal of the Poets 15 To Round and Rondeau the Canon Jāmī and Fānī’s Reception of the Persian Lyrical Tradition  Franklin Lewis 16 “Utterly Fluent, but Seldom Fresh” Jāmī’s Reception among the Safavids  Paul Losensky 17 Evaluating Jāmī’s Influence on Navā’ī The Case Studies of the Khiradnāma-yi iskandarī and the Sadd-i iskandarī  Marc Toutant 18 Foundational Maḥabbat-nāmas Jāmī’s Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Bengal (ca. 16th–19th AD)  Thibaut d’Hubert 19 Love’s New Pavilions Śāhā Mohāmmad Chagīr’s Retelling of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā in Early Modern Bengal  Ayesha Irani 20 Śrīvara’s Kathākautuka Cosmology, Translation, and the Life of a Text in Sultanate Kashmir  Luther Obrock 21 A Bounty of Gems Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Pashto  Ryan Perkins 22 Sweetening the Heavy Georgian Tongue Jāmī in the Georgian-Persianate Ecumene  Rebecca Gould Index of Names and Places Index of Works

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th to the 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the development of poetic trends and the interaction between poetry and society throughout the Byzantine millennium; it addresses a wide range of issues concerning the writing and reading of poetry (such as style, language, metrics, function, and circulation); and it surveys a large number of texts by looking closely at their place within the social and cultural milieus of their authors. Overall, the volume aims to enhance our understanding of Byzantine poetry and shed light on its important place in Byzantine literary culture. Contributors are Eirini Afentoulidou, Gianfranco Agosti, Roderick Beaton, Floris Bernard, Carolina Cupane, Kristoffel Demoen, Ivan Drpic, Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Antonia Giannouli, Martin Hinterberger, Wolfram Hörandner, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Ingela Nilsson, Emilie van Opstall, Andreas Rhoby, Kurt Smolak, Foteini Spingou, Maria Tomadaki, Ioannis Vassis, Nikos Zagklas.Trade Review"This is a well conceived and organised book, covering a wide range of subjects concerned with Byzantine poetry, that will prove a useful tool for scholars of all levels". Eleni Kaltsogianni, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09.09.2020. "The volume will appeal and greatly help readers at different stages of their education. On the one hand, the more experienced ones will appreciate the extremely rich and up-to-date surveys. On the other, any graduate student entering the dauntingly large and often not clearly charted field of Byzantine studies will find a thorough introduction to the various periods, genres and contexts of Byzantine poetry and much to tickle their curiosity. [...] the Brill Companion to Byzantine Poetry is an impressive and truly remarkable achievement. It will hopefully contribute to giving Byzantine literature the place it deserves within Byzantine and Medieval studies at large both in research and in teaching . Cosimo Paravano, in Medioevo Greco, 20, 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsX Notes on Contributors X Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction  Nikos Zagklas Part 1: Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style 1 Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts  Marc D. Lauxtermann 2 The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language”  Martin Hinterberger 3 From Hexameters to Fifteen-syllable Verse  Michael Jeffreys 4 Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric  Elizabeth Jeffreys Part 2: Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus 5 Late Antique Poetry and its Reception  Gianfranco Agosti 6 George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry?  Ioannis Vassis 7 Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites  Kristoffel Demoen 8 John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000  Emilie van Opstall and Maria Tomadaki 9 The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries  Floris Bernard 10 “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?” Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204)  Nikos Zagklas 11 Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th century)  Andreas Rhoby Part 3: Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond 12 “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium  Kurt Smolak 13 Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World  Eirini Afentoulidou and Jürgen Fuchsbauer 14 Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200)  Carolina Cupane Part 4: Transmission and Circulation 15 Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry  Foteini Spingou 16 Byzantine Book Epigrams  Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen 17 Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder  Ivan Drpić and Andreas Rhoby Part 5: Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium 18 Teaching with Verse in Byzantium  Wolfram Hörandner 19 Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers  Antonia Giannouli 20 The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse  Ingela Nilsson 21 Byzantine Verse Romances  Roderick Beaton General Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisFor the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the relationship between aphoristic consciousness and literary modernism in the expanded purview of the long twentieth century, through the work of a wide range of authors, including Samuel Beckett, Max Beerbohm, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Mansfield, and Stevie Smith. From the romantic fragment to the tweet, Aphoristic Modernity offers a compelling exploration of the short form's pervasive presence both as a standalone artefact and as part of a larger textual and cultural matrix.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and Modernity  Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross  1Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the Image  Peter Robinson  2‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic Fragments  Mark Sandy  3Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism  Simon Reader  4Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson  Kostas Boyiopoulos  5We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in theNew Age  Chris Mourant  6‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter, and the Subjective Aphorism  Alan Munton  7Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the Aphorism  Rebekah Scott  8Aphoristic Interruption in Stevie Smith  Noreen Masud  9Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short Stories  Baylee Brits  10Aphorisms and Archipelagos: Relationality in Modernist Studies  Maebh Long  11Epigrammatic Writing and Remix Culture: Memes and Mastery  Francesca Coppa  12‘I saw a sign that said “Drink Canada Dry”’: Alcoholic Epigrams, Modern Marketing, and the Value of Moderation  Michael Shallcross  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on Spatiality, Palomares-Salas convincingly argues that an unsolvable tension between place and space is at the core of the Hispanic avant-garde cultural production. A refreshing, transatlantic perspective on Ultraism and Stridentism, the book moves the Hispanic vanguards forward into broader, international discussions on space and modernism, and offers innovative readings of well-known, as well as rarely studied works.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Introduction: Spatiality and the Hispanic Avant-Garde  1 Space, Place, and the Avant-Garde  2 The Perspective of Experience  3 Representing Space  4 The Hispanic Transatlantic Avant-Garde  5 Transatlantic Scholarship  6 Itinerary  1 Cities  1 Madrid  2 Mexico City  3 Skyscrapers  4 The Eiffel Tower  5 The Viaduct  6 Electrical Wiring  2 Cafés  1 El Colonial and Pombo  2 Café de Nadie  3 Doors  4 Windows  5 Tables  6 Mirrors  3 Mobile Spaces  1 Trams  2 Automobiles  3 Airplanes  4 Pilots  5 Ships  4 The Ultraísta Sea  1 Borges’s Sea  2 Adriano del Valle’s Foam  3 Humberto Rivas’s Ocean  4 Guillermo de Torre’s High Tide  5 Harbours  6 Cathedrals  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisTroisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s’alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance et les surréalistes comme Apollinaire et G. Luca pour transmettre son message d’urgence : « a ti pas », la France opère sa mue décoloniale, et c’est l’antillectuel qui, transfuge, traverse les Lignes de couleur, de classe, de genre. The third man of negritude, Léon Damas, aligned himself with the Harlem Renaissance and surrealists to transmit his urgent message: à ti pas, little by little, France was undergoing its decolonial transformation. He claims to be the “Antillectual” who crosses the Lines of language, territory, color, class and gender.Table of ContentsRemerciements Notes Introduction : A ti pa : l’antillectuel Léon-Gontran Damas 1 Damas, hors champ / chant  1 A l’ombre de Frantz Fanon : les maux / mots Damas  2 Christiane Taubira, face à « Marie-t-on » 2 « Locating Damas »  1 L’outre mer G.L.M., un espace à géométrie variable  2 « Kréol », Damas exilé par la créolité 3 « Sur le chemin de Damas »  1 Richard Wright et « Une faim d’égalité »  2 Langston Hughes et les hauntologies du Black Atlantic  3 Claude McKay et « Fifty Shades of Brown » 4 Damas, démineur de Lignes  1 L’année charnière 1956  2 La Ligne cartographique  3 Pur/impur, dé/mobilisé  4 La Ligne communau-taire  5 La Ligne linguistique : Black-Babel 5 Ames-sœurs, frères mal-aimés  1 Apollinaire, l’alcool et autres dessous depuis Black-Label à Mine de riens  2 Luca, le bégaiement, entrave créatrice Conclusion : « Peuple-manifeste » en quête d’une France décoloniale Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement’s engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics. The emblem is a discursive practice that promises to stabilize language in the face of doubt, making it especially interesting as a site of conflicting responses to Victorian crises of representation. Through analyses of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.C. Swinburne, and William Morris, Emblematic Strategies examines the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s common goal of conveying “truth” while highlighting differences in its adherents’ approaches to that task.Trade Review“Heather McAlpine has […] managed to show the pivotal role emblems played in the development and emancipation of these artists’ aesthetics. For this reason, her book will be of great interest to scholars and students alike who want to have a different take on the Victorian aesthetics and a fresh insight in the literary analysis of Pre-Raphaelite illustrated and unillustrated works.” - Cezara Bobeica, University of Strasbourg, France in Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 61 2020 pp. 345-349Table of ContentsIllustrations 1 The Emblem and Its Victorian Contexts  1 What Is an Emblem?  2 The Development of Emblem Studies  3 The History of the Genre  4 Rhetorical and Devotional Emblems  5 The Emblem and Meditation  6 Natural and Conventional Theories of Language  7 The Cupid and Anima and Schola Cordis Traditions  8 The Victorian Context 2 “Thoughts towards Nature”: Pre-Raphaelite Emblematics in The Germ  1 Pre-Raphaelite Beginnings  2 “The Child Jesus”: Normative Emblematics  3 Unillustrated Emblems  4 Floriography  5 D.G. Rossetti’s Ambivalence and Aestheticism  6 The Problems of Publication 3 “Wise upbraidings”: Christina Rossetti’s Devotional Emblematics  1 Background  2 Naked Emblems in the Goblin Market and Prince’s Progress Volumes  3 Emblematic Devotional Prose: Called to Be Saints and Time Flies 4 “How meet beauty?”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Emblem  1 Early Sacramentalism  2 Pre-Raphaelite Connections  3 Emblematic Language: Onomatopoetics  4 God’s Language: Hieroglyphics and the Emblem  5 “The Wreck of the Deutschland” 5 “Devious symbols”: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Unorthodox Emblematics  1 Background  2 Embracing Emblematics: The PRB Period  3 “Positive Agnosticism” and Revised Works  4 Religious Doubt, Emblematic Continuities: The Later Works 6 “All are types unmeet”: Swinburne and the Limits of the Emblem  1 The Emblem: Admiration and Ambivalence  2 Emblems in Swinburne’s Art Criticism  3 Questioning Devotional Emblematics  4 Political Poetry and Rhetorical Emblematics  5 Emblematic Failure and the Sublime 7 Conclusion: What about William?  1 The Work Yet to Be Done

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Book SynopsisGenre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.Trade Review"This impressive volume comes from a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015, and provides several excellent discussions of different approaches to genre in early Greek poetry (essentially from Homer to Euripides). The authors for the most part share a sense that we need to move away from the notion that occasions uncomplicatedly produce genres: we should not seek in or behind archaic and classical Greek song a pre-lapsarian, pre-literary generic system. Most stress that ‘purity’ of genre should not be sought or invoked, but they provide a variety of ways to reconfigure how we think of genre and how attention to genre can help us to read particular texts." - Richard Rawles, University of Edinburgh, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020.10.26Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke and Naomi Weiss Part 1 Keynote Address 1 Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the “Newest Sappho”  Gregory Nagy Part 2 Genre, Generification, and Performance 2 Linus: The Rise and Fall of Lyric Genres  Andrew Ford 3 Sappho’s Parachoral Monody  Timothy Power 4 The Speaking Persona: Ancient Commentators on Choral Performance  Francesca Schironi Part 3 Genre Mixing 5 Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric  Deborah Steiner 6 Generic Hybridity in Athenian Tragedy  Naomi Weiss 7 Athens and Apolline Polyphony in Bacchylides’ Ode 16  Margaret Foster Part 4 Affect, Materiality, and the Body: The Somatics of Genre 8 Is Korybantic Performance a (Lyric) Genre?  Mark Griffith 9 Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax  Mario Telò 10 Experiencing Elegy: Materiality and Visuality in the Ambracian Polyandrion  Seth Estrin 11 Pindar, Paean 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge  Sarah Olsen Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attention is given to the poets Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Timotheus. Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace’s commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.Trade Review"The volume consists of a detailed introduction and 21 essays arranged into seven parts in terms of theme and time. In size, it is imposing; in scope, it is inspiring." Lawrence Kowerski in BMCR 2021.04.35Table of ContentsPreface Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations Notes on Contributors 1 The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization, and Paratext  Bruno Currie and Ian Rutherford Part 1 Transmission 2 New Philology and the Classics: Accounting for Variation in the Textual Transmission of Greek Lyric Poetry  André Lardinois 3 Tyrtaeus the Lawgiver: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus on Tyrtaeus fr. 4  Eveline van Hilten-Rutten Part 2 Canons 4 On the Shaping of the Lyric Canon in Athens  Gregory Nagy 5 Melic Poets and Melic Forms in the Comedies of Aristophanes: Poetic Genres and the Creation of a Canon  Claude Calame 6 Structuring the Genre: The Fifth- and Fourth-Century Authors on Elegy and Elegiac Poets  Krystyna Bartol Part 3 Lyric in the Peripatetics 7 The Peripatetics and the Transmission of Lyric  Theodora A. Hadjimichael 8 The Self-Revealing Poet: Lyric Poetry and Cultural History in the Peripatetic School  Elsa Bouchard Part 4 Early Reception 9 Lyric Reception and Sophistic Literarity in Timotheus’ Persae  David Fearn 10 “Total Reception”: Stesichorus as Revenant in Plato’s Phaedrus (with a New Stesichorean Fragment?)  Andrea Capra 11 Indirect Tradition on Sappho’s kertomia  Maria Kazanskaya Part 5 Reception in Roman poetry 12 Alcaeus’ stasiotica: Catullan and Horatian Readings  Ewen Bowie 13 Pindar, Paratexts, and Poetry: Architectural Metaphors in Pindar and Roman Poets (Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Statius)  Gregor Bitto Part 6 Second Sophistic Contexts 14 Sympotic Sappho? The Recontextualization of Sappho’s Verses in Athenaeus  Stefano Caciagli 15 A Sophisticated hetaira at Table: Athenaeus’ Sappho  Renate Schlesier 16 Solon and the Democratic Biographical Tradition  Jessica Romney 17 Strategies of Quoting Solon’s Poetry in Plutarch’s Life of Solon  Jacqueline Klooster 18 Playing with Terpander & Co.: Lyric, Music, and Politics in Aelius Aristides’ To the Rhodians: Concerning Concord  Francesca Modini Part 7 Scholarship 19 Historiography and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship  Tom Phillips 20 Poem-Titles in Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides  Enrico Emanuele Prodi 21 Ita dictum accipe: Pomponius Porphyrio on Early Greek Lyric Poetry in Horace  Johannes Breuer 22 Pindar and His Commentator Eustathius of Thessalonica  Arlette Neumann-Hartmann Index of Passages General Index

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Book SynopsisAs the University of Erfurt collapsed in the early 1520s, Hessus faced losing his livelihood. To cope, he imagined himself a shape-changing Proteus. Transforming first into a lawyer, then a physician, he finally became a teacher at the Nuremberg academy organized by Philip Melanchthon. Volume 5 traces this story via Hessus's poems of 1524-1528: "Some Rules for Preserving Good Health" (1524; 1531), with attached "Praise of Medicine" and two sets of epigrams; "Three Elegies" (1526), two praising the Nuremberg school and one attacking a criticaster; "Venus Triumphant" (1527), with poems on Joachim Camerarius’s wedding; "Against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit" (1527), with four Psalm paraphrases; and "Seventeen Bucolic Idyls" (1528), updating the "Bucolicon" of 1509 and adding five idyls.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Corrigenda to Volume 1 Addendum to Volume 3 Corrigenda and Addendum to Volume 4 Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot Some Rules for Preserving Good Health Introduction Text and Translation Elegiae tres Three Elegies Introduction Excursus: The Woodcut Portrait of Eobanus Text and Translation Venus triumphans Venus Triumphant Introduction Text and Translation In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ἐκφώνησις An Outcry against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit Introduction Text and Translation Bucolicorum idyllia XVII Seventeen Bucolic Idyls Introduction Text and Translation Supplementary Notes Notes to Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot Notes to Elegiae tres Notes to Venus triumphans Notes to In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ἐκφώνησις Notes to Bucolicorum idyllia XVII List of Abbreviations Index of Medieval and Neo-Latin Words Glossarial Index General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding generations of vital cultural memory and inspiration. A best-selling novelist and poet in her time, Renée Erdős wrote innovatively about women's experience of sexual love. Minka Czóbel wrote modern trauma texts only to pass into literary history branded, as a result of ideological pressure in communist times, as an 'ugly woman'. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her ‘masculine’ poems, felt she must suppress her ‘feminine’ poems. Famous writer’s widow Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi’s autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girls' adolescence, and offers us a woman’s thoughtful Holocaust memoir. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, wove together memory and fiction using techniques from patchworking and embroidery.Trade Review“The result is a fascinating reading about important stations in the selected writers' lives and careers along with Menyhért’s well-reflected challenging of their existing place in the Hungarian literary canon and her convincing arguments for the place they deserve in that very same canon. She undertakes this re-evaluation not only for the sake of demonstrating the shortcomings and narrow-mindedness of the existing canon but also to offer herself and other women writing today some literary predecessors of their own gender they can build on, both in terms of language and literary imagery and technique, and from whom they can take their inspiration. She demonstrates, against the oft-reiterated argument (by both male and some female literary critics and writers) that there is only one literature irrespective of the author’s gender, that gender matters, and that it matters to a very important degree when it comes to who is allowed entry into the canon and who, and why, is pushed to its margins or altogether out of it.” - Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa Canada, in Hungarian Cultural Studies Vol. 14 2021 pp. 260-263Table of ContentsForeword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers emsp;Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Translator’s Note 1 A Tradition of One’s Own emsp;1 A Tradition of Forgetting emsp;2 Canons and Sinking Streams emsp;3 Women’s Literature emsp;4 My Own Say emsp;5 From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room emsp;6 A Portrait Gallery on the Museum’s Postcard 2 Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879–1956) emsp;1 Author’s House: Closed emsp;2 Private Life – Literary Life emsp;3 Woman Writer at the Journal Future emsp;4 The Woman Writer’s Chances emsp;5 Voices in the Novels emsp;6 Fracture emsp;7 Success in Her Time emsp;8 Contemporary Reviews emsp;9 The Label of Erotic Lady Author emsp;10 Female Voice, Female Verse emsp;11 The Author’s House Is Open 3 In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991) and the Women’s Literary Tradition emsp;1 The Weeping Poetess emsp;2 Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History emsp;3 The Female Poet and Objective Poetry emsp;4 Woman’s Room, Woman’s Landscape, Woman’s Body emsp;5 Self-Liquidation and Recognition emsp;6 A Woman’s Role emsp;7 Statue and Mask emsp;8 Women’s Poetic Tradition emsp;9 Entering the Room emsp;10 Epilogue 4 No Canon for Otherness - The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854–1943) emsp;1 The Enigmatic Monographer emsp;2 The Mysterious Bob emsp;3 Detective Work emsp;4 Painting a Portrait emsp;5 Writing between the Lines emsp;6 Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon emsp;7 Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel emsp;8 The Feminist Witch emsp;9 The Otherness of the Witch emsp;10 Loss of Control emsp;11 Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web emsp;12 Boundaries, Mirrors emsp;13 Reading the Witch 5 Mirror, Body, Trauma - a Writer’s Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885–1967) emsp;1 To Big Girls about Little Girls emsp;2 Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer’s Wife emsp;3 Female Reading emsp;4 Body emsp;5 Mirror emsp;6 Women’s Holocaust Memoirs emsp;7 Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted emsp;8 Setting the Stage for Death emsp;9 Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy emsp;10 The Writing Woman emsp;11 Sitting Down at the Writing Desk 6 Museum, Cult, Memory - Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885–1966) emsp;1 Memory’s Volunteers emsp;2 The Well- Known Woman Writer emsp;3 Museum, Cult, Memory emsp;4 Dusting Off a Novel emsp;5 Belatedness and Renewal emsp;6 Threads and Patterns emsp;7 Female Figures emsp;8 A Father’s Blessing emsp;9 The Novel that Remembers emsp;10 Nižný Hrušov – Memory’s Tou Apendix 1 List of Poems and Their Translators Apendix 2 A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial work to assess his life and writings since his premature death in 1975. Considered a major figure in the second wave of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish Literary Renaissance’, Smith’s unique body of work has largely fallen from critical discussion of post-war Scottish literature. This book remedies this by showing how his work may have fallen out of favour, and then by reappraising his distinctive and varied achievements in poetry, drama, art and art criticism, the novel and translations. Early career and established academics explore the many strands of his work as the best way of giving this multifaceted literary figure renewed attention.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and a Note on the Poems Notes on Contributors Introduction   Richie McCaffery 1 Sydney Goodsir Smith: A Centenary Appreciation   Patrick Crotty 2 Skail Winds and Scattered Personalities: The Formation of Identity in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Early Poetry   Emma Dymock 3 ‘My Elder Brother in the Muse’: Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid   Margery Palmer McCulloch 4 Refraction, Intertexts and Diegesis in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s under the Eildon Tree   Christopher Whyte 5 Nationalism in the Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith   J. Derrick McClure 6 ‘Huntress, Slayer, White Unmortal Queyne’: Women in the Work of Sydney Goodsir Smith   Monika Szuba 7 ‘Order and Adventure’: Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Translations   Stewart Sanderson 8 Sydney Goodsir Smith: Gangrel Rymour, European Scot   Tom Hubbard 9 Unreal Edinburgh: From Li Po to Kynd Kittock   John Corbett 10 Reveries of a ‘Gangrel Scriever’: Gowdspink in Reekie and Oliver Goldsmith   Mario Relich 11 ‘Your maist inebriant savant’: A History of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius   Richie McCaffery 12 The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian Drama   Paul Barnaby 13 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s the Wallace in Context   David Robb 14 Sydney Goodsir Smith, Artist and Art Critic   Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat Selective Glossary of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scots Words Annotated Bibliography of Publications by and about Sydney Goodsir Smith Index

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