Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Book SynopsisThis study deals with the most radical of the badīʿ ("novel") poets of the ʿAbbāsid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badīʿ theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Abū Tammām's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the Ḥamāsah.Trade Review"...a pioneering effort... This is a very important book and will be required reading for everyone interested in Abu Tammam and Abbasid poetry in general." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25. "...eine scharfsinnige und kenntnisreiche Studie, die unser Verständnis der Abbasidendichtung wesentlich fördert." Renate Jacobi, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften, 1993. "...a mature work free from triviality and graced with a wealth of intelligent explanatory notes." J. Derek Latham, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1992. "...stimulating and neatly produced monograph...original..." Geert Jan van Gelder, TLS, 1992. "Il s'agit d'un ouvrage qui contient plusieurs idées intèressantes, des points de vue originaux, des formulations heureuses d'idées…" Lidia Bettini, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 1994. "This book by Stetkevych is very stimulating and thought provoking." A. Schippers, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1995. "Suzanne Stetkevych's book is a landmark study and an outstanding scholarly achievement." Peter Heath †, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1996.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translations Preface Part One: Abū Tammām and the Arabic Critical Tradition Introduction 1. A Reformulation of Badīʿ 2. Al-Ṣūlī's Akhbār Abī Tammām 3. Al-Āmidī's Muwāzanah 4. Al-Jurjānī's Wasāṭah Conclusion Part Two: Panegyrist to the Caliphal Court Introduction 5. Time's Beardless Youth: A Panegyric to the Caliph al-Maʾmūn 6. The Tragacanth's Fruit: A Panegyric to Abū Saʿid Thaghrī 7. A Morsel in Destruction's Hand: A Panegyric to al-Muʿtaṣim on the Capture of Bābak al-Khurramī 8. The Virgin whom the Hand of Fate Had Not Deflowered: The Panegyric to al-Muʿtaṣim on the Conquest of ʿAmmūriyah 9. The Poet Sets His Brilliant Gems: The Panegyric to al-Muʿtaṣim on the Immolation of al-Afshīn Conclusion Part Three: Abū Tammām and the Arabic Anthology Introduction 10. The Process of Collection: Hadīth and Poetry 11. The Ḥamāsah as Literary Ijmāʿ 12. Composition and Conception of the Ḥamāsah 13. Bāb al-Ḥamāsah: Theme and Variations 14. Metaphorical Relationships 15. Antithetical Relationships: Bāb al-Hijāʾ Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn André du Bouchet: Poetic Forms of Attention, Emma Wagstaff provides the first book-length study in English of this major poet of the second half of the twentieth century. She shows how Du Bouchet’s rigorous and innovative creative and critical writing advances our understanding of attention. Du Bouchet is known as a post-war poet of the natural world and the space of the page. Far from just a solitary writer, however, he engaged with others through his work as editor, critic, and translator, and his involvement in the protests of May 1968. Emma Wagstaff shows how his writing demonstrates nuanced attention to language, time, nature, and art, and incites a ‘slow’ response on the part of the reader.Trade Review“This study’s author establishes an intriguing closeness to and slight distance from her peers, grounding her arguments in recent criticism while indicating where she is inclined to agree or disagree. […] we continually learn essentials about Du Bouchet while entering as possible the mindset corresponding to specific works and to his overall poetic project. […] The critical apparatus offers a reliable guide, as does the laudable overall intentionality. The author communicates to a broad audience, structures the study meaningfully as regards primary sources, shows with precision how texts shape perception, progresses toward examination of art writing (134–55) and the process of life writing (158–92), consistently incorporates important thinkers and academics, and provides English translations at all junctures. The diverse analyses concerning awareness of form, attentiveness to time, and appreciation for people and things in the outer world are compelling. This monograph of lasting value facilitates access to Du Bouchet’s writings and eloquently demonstrates his oeuvre’s ongoing relevance.” - Aaron Prevost, French Review, May 2022.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Du Bouchet and his Poetic Context 2 Du Bouchet’s Contributions to the Review l’Éphémère  1  L’Éphémère and the Twentieth-Century French Literary Review  2  L’Éphémère and  3 ‘« Sous les pavés, la plage » Notes du [ ] mai 1968’  4 The Form of l’Éphémère 3 Poetry and Pauses  1 The Material World  2 Time in the Texts  3 Forms of Temporal Attention  4 ‘Soutiré à un futur’ 4 Tensions and Translation  1 Foreignness and Relation  2 ‘Notes sur la traduction’  3 ‘Lit de neige’ 5 Criticism and Slowness  1  Du Bouchet critic  2 Art Writing  3 Du Bouchet’s Slow Art Writing  4  De plusieurs déchirements dans les parages de la peinture 6 A Life Writing  1 Autobiography and Projects  2 Rewriting the Carnets  3 Rewriting Published Texts  4 ‘À l’arrêt’ Conclusion  1  A Note on Translation  2 Poetry’s Role? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Arranged as an investigation of the artist Hua Yan’s work at a pivotal moment in eighteenth-century society, this book considers his paintings and poetry in early eighteenth-century Hangzhou, mid-eighteenth-century Yangzhou, and finally their nineteenth-century afterlife in Shanghai. By investigating Hua Yan’s struggle as a marginalized artist—both at his time and in the canon of Chinese art—this study draws attention to the implications of seeing and being seen as an artist in early modern China.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Seeing Hua Yan  2 Painting in Early Modern China 1 The Mountain Man of Xinluo  1 Portraiture and Persona  2 The Zhe School Poets  3 The Sojourning Artist 2 Lyricism in Words and Images  1 On Transformation  2 Artist and Patron  3 The Human Experience  4 Singing of the Object 3 Painting the Garden from Life  1 The Art of Social Distinction  2 Hua Yan’s Circle, 1740s and 1750s  3 Garden and Society 4 Picturing People, Past and Present  1 Literary Gatherings as Aspirational Subjects  2 Gender and the Garden  3 Borders, Travel, and Empire  3 Seasons of Life 5 The Xinluo School  1 The Zhejiang Legacy in Yangzhou  2 Defining the Xinluo School  3 The Shanghai School Epilogue: Lives of Jiangnan Artists, 1700–1900 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and prose in the creation of modern literary Japanese. Saito’s new understanding of the role of “kanbunmyaku” in the formation of Japanese literary modernity challenges dominant narratives tied to translations from modern Western literatures and problematizes the antagonism between Literary Sinitic and Japanese in the modern academy. Saito shows how kundoku (vernacular reading) and its rhythms were central to the rise of new inscriptional styles, charts the changing relationship of modern poets and novelists to kanbunmyaku, and concludes that the chronotope of modern Japan was based in a language world supported by the Literary Sinitic Context.Trade Reviewit is immediately obvious that the editors and translators worked hard to enhance the accessibility and utility of the text for English-language readers by providing biographical and bibliographical footnotes, giving full citations for references, and sometimes adding in the margins the original Japanese terms used by the author. They have also compiled a bibliography and several indexes. These additions are helpful for those who already know Japanese and also make the translation accessible to those who don’t.(..) The editors and translators have rendered the field sterling service in making Saitō’s text accessible to an English-reading audience. The result is a meticulous and exact rendering that will, I hope, reach the kinds of readership the editors have in mind.' Peter Kornicki, Robinson College, Cambridge, Monumenta Nipponica 76:2 (2021)Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface: Saitō Mareshi, the “Literary Sinitic Context,” and Literary Modernity in the Former Sinographic Cosmopolis Author’s Preface to the English Edition List of Illustrations Introduction 1 What Is the Literary Sinitic Context?: Two Poles of Style and Thought  1 Japan’s Literary Sinitic Context  2 Two Poles of Style and Thought  3 Outline of the Literary Sinitic Context in Its Regional and Temporal Dimensions  4 Literary Sinitic Cultivation  5 The Kansei Reforms  6 The Formation of Literati Consciousness  7 Common Ground for Warriors and Literati  8 How Literary Sinitic Was Studied  9 The Style for Discussion of State Affairs  10 The Patriotic Lamentations of Men of High Purpose in the Late Edo Period  11 The Death Poem of Kondō Isami 2 Why Did the Reading and Writing of Kanbun Spread?—The Unofficial History of Japan and the Voice of Kundoku  1 Kanbun as a Written Language  2 Rai San’yō and His Scholarly Lineage  3 The System of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi Studies  4 The “Prohibition of Heterodoxy” and the Institutionalization of Learning  5 Learning and the Orientation toward Governance  6 The Grand Ambition of Historical Narrative  7 The Completion of the Unofficial History of Japan  8 Reasons for Bestsellerhood  9 Reading-Conscious Kanbun  10 Criticism of Washū  11 Kundoku Rhythm as Different from Ordinary Speech  12 Vernacular Reading (Kundoku) and Sinoxenic Vocalization (Ondoku)  13 Famous, Captivating Melodies  14 The Shigin Trend  15 The Charm of Grandiose Kanshi  16 The Literary Sinitic Context Popularized 3 The Formation of a National Literary Style: The Civilization and Enlightenment Movement and Kundokubun  1 The Separation of Literary Sinitic and Kundokubun  2 Meiji-Period Evaluations of San’yō  3 Differences in the Three Appraisals  4 What Is “Futsūbun”?  5 Two Points of Focus: A Text’s Functionality versus Its Moral Spirit  6 Universal and Common  7 Kundoku as Inscriptional Style  8 The Gradual Dilution of Kanbun’s Mental World  9 A Style Fit for Translation  10 A Time for Utility and Practicality  11 Contemporary Style as Modern Style  12 The Rise of “a Compositional Style for the Populace”  13 A Massive Lexicon of Sinographic Coinages  14 The Writing Style of Enlightenment  15 Rhetorical Kundoku Style: A True Account of America and Europe  16 Sophisticated Contemporary Style 4 When Did the “Modern” Begin in Japanese Literature?: Romantic Love as the Antithesis of Politics  1 Calling into Question “Modern Literary History”  2 Coteries of Kanshi Poets during Meiji  3 Mori Shuntō, Leading Contributor to the Thriving of Kanshi  4 The Public and the Private as Constituents of the Mental World  5 Devotion to the Private World  6 The Literati Mentality: Cherishing Literary Sinitic Poetry and Prose  7 Ōnuma Chinzan in the World of the Literatus  8 The Polarity of “Politics = Public” vs. “Literature = Private”  9 The Separation of Literature from Learning  10 Mori Ōgai’s Diary of a Westbound Voyage (Kōsei nikki)  11 Mori Ōgai’s Self-Consciousness  12 The Framework of Official Career vs. Reclusion  13 Exaggerated Rhetoric  14 The Motif of “The Dancing Girl” (Maihime)  15 The Origins of Renown and Diligent Study  16 Romantic Love as the Antithesis of Politics  17 The Reorganization of “Literature” 5 Japanese Novelists, Nostalgia, and the Exotic: China as the Land of Romantic Love and Revolution  1 The Position of Novels in the Early Modern Period  2 The Relative Status of Poetry and Fiction  3 The Theme of “Emotion”  4 Romantic Love and the Political Novel  5 A Great Compendium of Romantic Fiction  6 A New Focus for Fiction: The Replication of “Human Emotion”  7 Nagai Kafū, Child of a Scholar-Official  8 Diametrically Opposed Father and Son  9 From Prodigal Son to Spitting Image of His Father  10 Consciousness of Foreign Lands Nurtured by Interactions with Qing China  11 Intoxication with Shanghai  12 Reality Seeps into Kanshibun  13 Kafū within the Literary Sinitic Context  14 Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Child of a Merchant Household  15 Drowning Single-Mindedly in Beauty  16 Shina as the Setting for Eros  17 Akutagawa’s Realistic Conception of China  18 Contrasting Tanizaki and Akutagawa  19 What Was the Taishō Ideology of Education? 6 The Horizon of Literary Sinitic: From the Literary Sinitic Context to a New Kind of Japanese Language  1 Characteristics of the Genbun itchi (Congruence of Speech and Writing) Style  2 Stepping Outside the Literary Sinitic Context  3 The Focus of Écriture  4 The Struggle of Natsume Sōseki with the New Literary Context  5 The Literary Sinitic Context as Counterpoint to the West  6 A Predilection for Zen  7 The Aspect of Intellectual Play  8 Literary Sinitic Poetry and Prose Today  9 A Different Kind of Japanese  10 Of Pastimes and Personal Refinement Glossary of Figures Cited Glossary of Texts Cited Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe sixteenth-century French poets Pierre de Ronsard and Guillaume Du Bartas enjoyed a wide, immediate and long-lasting, but varied and mixed reception throughout early modern Europe. Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe is the first book-length volume to explore the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other. It takes into account the great variety of their readerships, including translators, imitating poets, poetical theorists, illustrators and painters, both male and female (Marie de Gournay, Anne Bradstreet), some of them illustrious (Tasso, King James VI and I of Scotland and England, Opitz…), others less known, even obscure, but worth to be saved from oblivion (such as the French Marc-Antoine Chalon, the English Mary Roper, and the Dutch poet Philibert van Borsselen). This volume offers a fascinating insight into the different reception modes in Europe and their underlying political, religious and literary identities. Contributors include: Peter Auger, Denis Bjaï, Karel Bostoen †, Philippe Chométy, Paola Cosentino, Violaine Giacomotto-Charra, Alisa van de Haar, Pádraic Lamb, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Elisabeth Rothmund, Paul J. Smith, and Caroline Trotot.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction  Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and Paul J. Smith 2 Entre Lorraine et Bavière : Pantaleon Thevenin lecteur de Ronsard et de Du Bartas  Denis Bjaï 3 Ronsard et Du Bartas, repoussoirs associés dans la France du XVIIe siècle  Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou 4 ‘Le papier le reçoit, mais la foy le rejette’ : Christophe de Gamon correcteur de la poétique bartasienne  Violaine Giacomotto-Charra 5 Le Zodiac poëtique (1619) d’Alexandre de Rivière : une ‘Remontrance’ à Christofle de Gamon sur son ‘Anti-Bartas’ ?  Philippe Chométy 6 Conception ronsardienne de la métaphore et enjeux théoriques dans les traités de Marie de Gournay (1565–1645)  Caroline Trotot 7 The Influence of Du Bartas in 17th-Century Italy  Paola Cosentino 8 Poétique ou politique ? La réception de Ronsard et Du Bartas en Allemagne : Martin Opitz, Tobias Hübner et la Compagnie Frugifère  Elisabeth Rothmund 9 Visiting Ronsard in 1578, or Jan van der Noot Preparing the Funding of His Europeiad  Karel Bostoen † 10 Ronsard and Du Bartas in the Low Countries: Evidence from Early Modern Dutch Private Libraries and a Vanitas Still-Life by Edwaert Collier (ca. 1664)  Paul J. Smith 11 Ronsard at School: French Poetry as Educational Tool in the Early Modern Low Countries  Alisa van de Haar 12 Ichthyological Topics of the European Reception of Du Bartas  Paul J. Smith 13 Poetic and Political Models: Ronsard, Du Bartas and James VI of Scotland  Pádraic Lamb 14 Du Bartas’ Pattern for English Scriptural Poets  Peter Auger 15 The King James Text of Du Bartas’ “Les Peres”: An Edition  Peter Auger and Denis Bjaï Index Nominum

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Book Synopsis“[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition.” - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. "This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation."Trade Review“[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition.” - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. “[…] this volume is a tour-de-force and there can be little doubt that it will stand the test of time and be widely accepted as a standard work.” - Sally Badham, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Biographical Information 1 Introduction  The Dance of Paul’s  Iconographic Representations of Death  The Dance of Death and the Popular Imagination  The Role of Death in Life  A Topical and Adaptable Motif  The Origins of the Dance of Death  The Danse Macabre Mural in Paris  Further Dissemination of the Danse Macabre  Manuscripts and Printed Texts  Manuscripts of the A–Group  Manuscripts of the B–Group  Editorial Principles Part 1: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death  MS. Bodleian Selden Supra 53  Lansdowne MS. 699, fols. 41–50  Oxford, Douce BB53 3 Textual Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death  A-Group (Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53)  B-Group (British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699)  Textual Notes to Douce BB.53 (Fakes Edition) 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death  Stanzas Only in the B–Group, Following the Order of Lansdowne MS. 699 Part 2: The French Danse Macabre 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 8 Critical Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Appendix: Transcription of the “Chambéry roll”, a French Dramatized Danse Macabre Text of the Late Fourteenth or Early Fifteenth Century (Collection Claudius Bouvier, Archives départementales de Savoie, Chambéry, France) Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisNonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel which renders the Fourth Gospel into sophisticated hexameter verse. This volume, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, brings together twenty-six essays by eminent scholars that discuss Nonnus’ cultural and literary background, the literary techniques and motifs used by the poet, as well as the composition of the Dionysiaca and the exegetical principles applied in the Paraphrase. As such, the book will significantly deepen our understanding of literary culture and religion in Late Antiquity.Trade Review"The Nonnus of Panopolis in Context series has been, for a number of years, the largest gathering of interesting perspectives and ideas on Nonnus and his works, and this third volume continues that tradition while setting out directions for the future. With this volume, the field of Nonnian scholarship finally feels like a fully mature, confident academic space, rather than the more hesitant area of study striving for legitimacy and attention that it has been until recently. None of the hesitation or acknowledgement of older, extremely questionable theories and questions of minimal value that have been so prevalent in Nonnian scholarship can be found in this collection, which instead approaches the poems with fresh eyes and exciting ideas. The volume serves as an excellent overview of where the field stands in 2021 and sets out clear aspirations of where we should go next." Oliver Gerlach, The Classical Review 71.2 379–381. "In sum, this collection, which is accompanied by, inter alia, a wide bibliography and useful indices, marks another step forward in the studies on Nonnus' poetry and, at the same time, demonstrates once again how deep and complex it is by providing many starting points for further research." Arianna Magnolo in BMCR 2022.03.11Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Solved and Still Unsolved Issues about Nonnus and His Works  Gennaro D’Ippolito Part 1 Nonnus and the Literary Tradition 1 “Breaking the Fourth Wall”: On Literariness and Metalepsis in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca  Berenice Verhelst 2 Junctures of Epic and Encomium in the Dionysiaca: The Episode of Staphylos  Laura Miguélez-Cavero 3 Aura’s Metamorphosis in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus: A Tale of Classical Resonances and Christian Imagery  Anna Lefteratou 4 I Had Only an Untimely Love: The Ephebic ‘Epyllia’ of Dionysiaka 10–11  Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 5 Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Latin Tradition: The Episode of Ampelus  Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou 6 Nonnus and Coptic Literature: Further Explorations  Gianfranco Agosti Part 2 Literary Structure and Motifs in the Dionysiaca 7 Visualizing Actaeon: The Motif of Recognition in Nonnus’ Treatment of the Metamorphosis  A. Sophie Schoess 8 Structure and Meaning through Analogy: Remarks on the Use of Spatial Form in the Dionysiaca  Camille Geisz 9 Some Aspects of Nonnus’ Poetics: Antitypical Poetry in the Dionysiaca  Nestan Egetashvili 10 Ἁρμονίη κόσμου and ἁρμονίη ἀνδρῶν: On the Different Concepts of Harmony in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus  Marta Otlewska-Jung 11 The Awakening of Ariadne in Nonnus: A Deliberate Metaphor  David Hernández de la Fuente 12 Female Characterization and Gender Reversal in Nonnus and Colluthus  Cosetta Cadau 13 Empowered Effeminacy? The Inversion of Gender Norms in the Episodes of Europa and Cadmus  Fotini Hadjittofi Part 3 Exegesis through Paraphrase 14 Ἀληθείῃ καὶ πνεύματι (Par. 4.114): Some Doctrinal Issues in Nonnus’ Paraphrase and Their Theological Implications  Roberta Franchi 15 Nonnus and the Book  Jane Lucy Lightfoot 16 Shepherding the Past: Nonnus’ Parable of the Good Shepherd between Pagan Models and Christian Exegesis  Margherita Maria di Nino and Maria Ypsilanti 17 Amplification in Juvencus’ Evangeliorum Libri iv and in Nonnus’ Μεταβολὴ τοῦ κατὰ Ιωάννην ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου  Michael Paschalis 18 Presentation of Biblical Figures in Poetic Paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel  Laura Franco and Maria Ypsilanti Part 4 Nonnus and Late Antique Culture 19 Sacrificing a Serpent: Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 2.671–679 and the Orphic Lithica 736–744  Ewa Osek 20 The Mystic Reception of Theocritus in Late Antiquity  Konstantinos Spanoudakis 21 Sites and Cities in Late Antique Literature: Athens, Berytus, and Cultural Self-Identification in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis  Nicole Kröll Part 5 Reception of Nonnus 22 An Unknown “Nonnian” Poet: John of Memphis  Enrico Magnelli 23 Nonnus, Christodorus, and the Epigrams of George of Pisidia  Mary Whitby 24 Photius, the Suda, and Eustathius: Eloquent Silences and Omissions in the Reception of Nonnus’ Work in Byzantine Literature  Domenico Accorinti 25 Boom Years of Nonnian Studies? On the Reception of Nonnus in Germany (1880–1976)  Fabian Sieber Index

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Book SynopsisCette première monographie consacrée à l'œuvre d’Esther Tellermann met en lumière, à travers des textes de 1999-2019 dont le lyrisme décentré s’ouvre à l’Autre, un regard novateur sur des réalités intérieures et extérieures, l’intime du monde, l’Histoire et l’intertextualité. This first book-length study of Esther Tellermann’s œuvre highlights her innovative approach to inner and outer realities, in texts from 1999-2019 whose decentered lyricism foregrounds ritual and reverie while engaging in dialogue with fellow writers.Table of ContentsRemerciements Abréviations Introduction : énigme, prière, identité 1 Se souvenir, réconcilier : les psaumes détournés de Guerre extrême (1999) 2 Prier, soulager : le chant des morts musical d’Encre plus rouge (2003)  1 Réflexivité, poétologie, profondeur  2 Séries d’images et polysémie  3 Polyphonie, intersubjectivité, éthique 3 Parler la terre : rites et rêverie dans Terre exacte (2007) 4 Consoler, nommer, réparer : l’expérience sensible dans Contre l’épisode (2011)  1 Donner voix aux disparus à travers la pluie consolatrice  2 Nommer : relier  3 Réparer 5 Ouvrir les mots, ouvrir les morts : dialectiques celaniennes dans Sous votre nom (2015)  1 Inventer  2 Naviguer et ouvrir 6 Étreindre le temps, repriser la parole, déployer l’âme : Le Troisième (2013) et Éternité à coudre (2016)  1 Étreindre le temps : Le Troisième  2 Déployer de nouveau l’âme : Éternité à coudre 7 Veiller, accompagner : traces reverdyennes dans Avant la règle (2014), Carnets à bruire (2014) et Un versant l’autre (2019) 8 Aviver, restituer, reconstruire : Un versant l’autre (2019) et l’accueil de l’Autre  1 Repartir  2 Appeler  3 Coudre  4 Brûler Conclusion : alliances, résonances, trajectoires Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisScholars have long noted the strikingly visual aspects of Statius’ poetry. This book advances our understanding of how these visual aspects work through intertextual analysis. In the Thebaid, for instance, Statius repeatedly presents “visual narratives” in the form of linked descriptive (or ekphrastic) passages. These narratives are subject to multiple forms visual interpretation inflected by the intertextual background. Similarly, the Achilleid activates particularly Roman conceptions of masculinity through repeated evocations of Achilles’ blush. The Silvae offer a diversity of modes of viewing that evoke Roman conceptions of gender and class.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Statius and the Visual  1 Ekphrasis  2 Theories of Vision  3 Statius and Vision 1 Statius’ Catalogue and Tragic Visuality  1 Aeschylus’ Shield Scene  2 Statius and Aeschylus  3 Visual Responsion in Statius’ Catalogue  4 Statius and Euripides  5 The Female Gaze in Statius’ Catalogue  6 Statius and Athenian Tragedy 2 Statius’ Catalogue and Epic Visuality  1 Visual Prologues  2 Strategies of Sequencing  3 Statius and the Homeric Catalogue of Ships  4 Statius and Vergil’s Catalogue of Italians  5 Statius’ Murals: Hippomedon  6 Statius’ Murals: Capaneus  7 Vergil and Homer in Statius’ Catalogue 3 Ekphrasis, Adultery, and Metanarrative  1 Vulcan’s Workshop  2 Harmonia’s Necklace  3 Venus’ Speech  4 The Temple of Mars  5 The House of Sleep  6 Narrative Implications  7 Visual Implications 4 Statius’ Shields  1 The Shield of Theseus  2 Theseus’ Shield, Crete, and the Aeneid  3 Theseus’ Shield, Bulls, and Catullus  4 Theseus’ Shield and Visuality  5 The Shield of Crenaeus  6 Ismenos and the Thebaid  7 Vision and Crenaeus’ Shield  8 Visualizing Epic 5 Achilles’ Blush  1 Seneca and Others on the Blush  2 In Chiron’s Cave  3 Achilles Sees Deidamia  4 Achilles Transformed  5 Arms and the Boy  6 The Anger of Achilles  7 Reading the Blush 6 Silvae 1.1 and the Visuality of Empire  1 Epic Visuality  2 Divine Artistry  3 Illusion  4 Human Artistry  5 The Visuality of Empire  6 Conclusion 7 Silvae 4.6 and the Visuality of Satire  1 Ekphrastic Satire?  2 Colossus and “Colossus”  3 Epigram at the Table  4 Epic Visuality, Again  5 Conclusion 8 Visualizing the Good Life: the Villa Poems  1 Statius and Horace: Silv. 1.3  2 Silvae 2.2: Lyric Visuality  3 Silv. 2.2: Epic Visuality  4 Conclusion 9 Statius and the Erotic Gaze  1 The Bath of Claudius Etruscus  2 The Tree of Atedius Melior  3 Conclusions Conclusion: Statius’ Visual Poetics  1 Thebaid  2 Achilleid  3 Silvae  4 Dracontius and the Deviant Viewer  5 Claudian and the Adultery Metanarrative  6 The Achilleid in Claudian and Dracontius  7 Ausonius and the Silvae Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments and worldviews. To get to the bottom of the issues that inspired their poetry, he weaves an interpretive web informed by the study of language, culture and history. The poems reveal that the poets were perfectly aware of the workings of the power systems that took control of their lives and lifestyle. Their poetry indicates that they did not remain silent but practiced their art in the face of their hardships, observing the collapse of their world with a mixture of despair and inspiration, bitterness and wit.

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Book SynopsisIn Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz applies the concept of singularity to draw out resonances and intersections between these two discourses and shows how they have responded to intertwined historical and political trajectories and a new reality beyond the human. Drawing on developments such as AI poetry and ecopoetry, Krenz makes the case for a fresh approach to comparative poetry studies that takes into account new forms of poetic expression and probes into alternative grammars of understanding.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Compairative Stage  1 Mismatch? On Com-pair-ison and Directing as Method  2 Singularity: A Few Words about the Structuring Principle  3 Genesis: Two Stories  4 The Making of This Book 1 Convergent Trajectories  1 Worlds Apart: Polish and Chinese Poetry up to the Early Twentieth Century  2 Coming Closer: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Mid-1980s  3 June Fourth and the Polemical Decade of Transformation  4 From Brotherhood in Socialism to Elective Affinities 2 Old Masters and Young Martyrs  1 Unfinished Breakthroughs: A Bird’s-Eye View  2 One Dawn, Two Evenings: Czesław Miłosz and Ai Qing  3 Crossing the Ocean: Rafał Wojaczek and Haizi 3 Poets and Poetry on Stage  1 Opening Up the Archives: Tadeusz Różewicz and Yu Jian  2 Hyperpoetry and Hypermusic: Marcin Świetlicki and Cui Jian 4 Invisibility  1 The Meaning of Invisibility  2 At Home in the World: Wisława Szymborska and Wang Xiaoni  3 Submerging: Krystyna Miłobędzka and Zhai Yongming 5 Making Names and Saving Names  1 Initiations: Krzysztof Siwczyk and Yin Lichuan  2 Solastalgia: Tomasz Różycki and Li Hao Saving Singularity of Names  3 Singularity vs. Generation  4 Toward Poetic Imaginations 6 Resetting Poetry  1 Difficult Poetry?  2 Play and Game  3 Rhyme Your Crime: Andrzej Sosnowski Resets and Recites  4 In the Magic Circle: Why Che Qianzi Is Not Virgil  5 We Don’t Understand Understanding 7 Beyond Understanding  1 Con-Versing with the World  2 Augmented Poetry: Experiments with Technology  3 Coming Home Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this book offers a contemporary critical assessment on this medieval Franciscan poet of the thirteenth century. Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical and theological interpretations of the original contents and style of Iacopone’s poetry, the collection considers a wide range of topics, from music to prayer and performance, mysticism, asceticism, ineffability, Mariology, art, poverty, and the challenges of translation. It is a major contribution to the understanding of Iacopone’s laude in the 21st century. Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Alvaro Cacciotti, Nicolò Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franzè, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana Sălișteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacopone’s Hidden Face PART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity 1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacopone’s Laude  Erminia Ardissino 2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante  Nicolò Crisafi 3 “O novo canto, c’ài morto el planto de l’omo enfermato!”: The Musical Spirit of Iacopone’s Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody  Federica Franzè 4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todi’s Intellectual Journey  Estelle Zunino PART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation 5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas  Magdalena Maria Kubas 6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor d’esmesuranza  Oana Sali?teanu PART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion 7 “Prindi da me dolcezza …”: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Anne-Gaëlle Cuif 8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Alexander J. B. Hampton 9 “Sapor de Sapïenza”: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacopone’s Laude  Matteo Leonardi 10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal  Brian K. Reynolds 11 Victorine Traces in Iacopone’s Laude  Carlo Zacchetti PART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism 12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi  Alvaro Cacciotti 13 Image and Performance in Iacopone’s Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, “Un arbore è da Deo plantato”  Samia Tawwab 14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone’s Mystical Marriage through Malady  Alessandro Vettori Index

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Book SynopsisIn T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal, Joshua Richards charts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. This history is drawn from Eliot’s own education in the topic with the texts he read integrated into detailed textual analysis. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender. In 1909, he began a study of mysticism, likely, in George Santayana’s seminar, and thereafter showed the influence of this education. Yet, his interaction with the ascetic ideal and his background in mysticism was not a simple thing; still, his early cynicism was slowly transformed to an embrace.Trade Review“In this study, Joshua Richards refuses to allow “mysticism” to stand in as a vague placeholder for complicated theology and instead offers a meticulous and revealing account of T. S. Eliot’s lifelong engagement with Christian asceticism, a key component of the Christian mystical tradition more broadly.” -Ann Marie Jakubowski, Washington University, in Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society, vol. 103, 2021, pp. 6-17

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Book SynopsisAn experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to these questions in Vladimir Feshchenko’s book. The study investigates various strategies of radical linguistic creativity in Russian and American experimental writing of the 20th century and explores cases of contemporary ‘language-oriented’ and ‘trans-language’ poetry. It is a comparative examination of two national avant-garde cultures, but also a juxtaposition of the relationships that Russian and American avant-garde poetics had with linguistic ideas of their times. The monograph may serve as a wonderful introduction to the entire field of ‘linguistic poetics of the avant-garde’.

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Book SynopsisThe Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most prestigious Humanists in the most vibrant centres of Renaissance Italy and the Netherlands. The collection preserves magnificent buildings otherwise lost; speaks of stones otherwise unknown; and memorializes people, rituals, and social relationships that would have passed into oblivion in silence. This volume offers a fresh look into approaches to the Silvae by editors and commentators, both at the time of the rediscovery of the poems and today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Commenting on Statius’ Silvae: No Place for Dead Wood  Ana Lóio Part 1 The (First) Rediscovery 1 Roman Humanism and the Study of the Silvae in the Fifteenth Century  Giancarlo Abbamonte 2 Poliziano’s (Commentary on Statius’) Silvae: Between Imitation and Exegesis  Luke Roman Part 2 The Sequel: A New Age of Disclosure 3 The Role of Translation in Commentary on Statius’ Silvae  Bruce Gibson 4 Notes from a New Commentary on Statius’ Silvae  Antonino Pittà 5 Commenting on the Silvae: Visuality, Versatility, Verisimilitude  Kathleen M. Coleman Part 3 A Path to the Future: Statian Readings in Augustan Poetry 6 Errant Poetics: Rethinking a Comment on Silvae 2.2.83–85  Carole Newlands 7 Commenting on an Ovidian Model: An Authorized Desertion in Silvae 1.2  Gianpiero Rosati 8 The Hut and the Temple: Private Aetiology and Augustan Models in Silvae 3.1  Federica Bessone 9 Untying the Commentator’s Knot: Bonds and Lacunae in Silvae 4.4 and Propertius 2.1  Ana Lóio Index

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Book SynopsisThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration Part 1 Death and the Lover 1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses  Anke Walter 2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses  Florence Klein 3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus  Thea Thorsen 4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?  Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile  Laurel Fulkerson Part 2 Death and the Artist 6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry  A.M. Keith 7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile  Luigi Galasso 8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting  Bettina Bergmann 9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)  Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra Part 3 Revenants and Undead 10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses  Alison Sharrock 11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies  Stephen Hinds 12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”  Francesco Ursini 13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England  Emma Buckley Part 4 Immortals and Others 14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War  Francesca Romana Berno 15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid  Giuseppe La Bua 16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)  Katharina Volk 17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models  Sergio Casali 18 Apotheoses of the Poet  Philip Hardie Index

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Book SynopsisIrreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712–770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Jue Chen not only argues in his work that Du Fu was constructed according to particular literary and intellectual agendas of Song literati but also that conventional labels applied to Du Fu do not accurately represent this construction campaign. He also discusses how Du Fu’s image as the greatest poet sheds unique light on issues that can deepen our understanding of the subtleties in the poetic culture of Song China.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction  1 Du Fu’s Image and Du Fu in Reception History Studies  2 Du Fu and the Song Literati Culture  3 Overview of the Book 1 Memory of Du Fu before the Mid-Eleventh Century  1 The “Li Du” Juxtaposition and “Li/Du” Dichotomy  2 Hard Life  3 Association with Shu  4 Relationship with Yan Wu  5 Death in Water 2 A Collected Poet  1 Wang Zhu’s Edition and the “Wu Ruo Edition”  2 Collecting Du Fu’s Poems  3 Biannian and Nianpu  4 Biannian as Biographical Narrative and Critical Perspective 3 “Shishi” and Reading Du Fu as History  1 Reading Strategies and Authorial Image  2 Reading Shishi: Human Emotions and Realistic Concerns  3 How Du Fu Wrote Shishi: Rhetoric and Moralization  4 Metamorphosis and Negotiation of Shishi 4 Reading Du Fu in the Song Political Culture  1 The Basic Tone for Du Fu Criticism: Tradition and Reality  2 Wang Hui’s Reading of Certain Poems by Du Fu  3 “Never Forgetting the Emperor Even during a Meal”  4 Reading Du Fu in Political Vicissitudes  5 Metamorphosis of Du Fu’s Loyalist Image in Southern Song 5 The Poetic Craftsman  1 Words and Allusions for Expression of Poetic Ideas  2 Rules and Standards  3 Toward a Narrative of Poetic Transition from Tang to Song Conclusion: Making China’s Greatest Poet  1 Song Poets’ Desire for Influence  2 Du Fu in the Historical Changes in the Song  3 “China’s Greatest Poet” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, “sterner verse” for “darker scenes”. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Chronology of Thomas Pringle’s Life and Works Introduction   The Cabin and the Sonnet 1 Edinburgh Sonnets   In the Walks of British Literature 2 Sonnets of Passage   Darker Scenes, Sterner Verse 3 Cape Sonnets: In Genadendal   Short Solace in Narrow Rooms 4 Cape Sonnets: On the Frontier   Friendship’s Golden Chain 5 London Sonnets   The Sympathy of Strangers Conclusion   A Romanticism of the South Appendix 1: The Complete Sonnets of Thomas Pringle Appendix 2: Pringle’s Sonnet Types Appendix 3: Pringle’s “Selection of Sonnets, Songs & Other Poems – Chiefly from the Works of Living Authors” (1814) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisClassical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the recent upsurge in academic revision of modern Chinese literary history. Using the concept of cultural transplantation, this monograph attempts to illustrate the uniqueness, compatibility, and adaptability of classical Chinese poetry in colonial Singapore as well as its sustained connections with literary tradition and homeland. It demonstrates how the reading of classical Chinese poetry can better our understanding of Singapore’s political, social, and cultural history, deepen knowledge of the transregional relationship between China and Nanyang, and fine-tune, redress, and enrich our perception of Singapore Chinese literature, Sinophone literature, the Chinese diaspora, and global Chinese identity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Romanization Introduction 1 Founding Fathers: Qing Consul-Poets Zuo Binglong and Huang Zunxian 2 Naming and Local Colour: Qiu Shuyuan and His “Star Island” Poetry 3 Building Cultural Space: Qiu Shuyuan and Singapore’s Literary Community 4 Reinventing the Blue Tower Tradition: Poetry on Prostitution 5 Versifying Religious Belief: Sinitic Buddhism and Buddhist Poets 6 Lyrical Records of Social Mores: Bamboo Branch Verse and Singapore Society 7 The Uprooted Orchid: Lanhua ji Poets in the Occupation Period Epilogue: What Then? Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLucretius’ De rerum natura, written around 55 BCE, ranks among the most influential texts in Roman literature. The poet’s vision of a world made of atoms, his mockery of the fear of death and the gods, and fervent advocacy of the mortality of the soul over many centuries incensed his critics on one hand, and on the other earned him a devoted following. This volume provides an introduction to the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Lucretius’ Poem  3 Final Remarks Acknowledgements References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century. It highlights specific moments during which the feminine voice became recognized, accepted, and stabilized, including the shift of focus from the performative to the textual in female representations; the formation of a male literary community; the popularity of romanticized historical narratives; and the emerging sense of literary history. This study emphasizes the historicity of the feminine voice and strives to question and challenge established notions about textual stability, authorship, the literary canon, and literary history.

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Book SynopsisThis volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  1 Love Elegy  2 Neo-Catullanism  3 Excursus: Art and Life  4 Petrarchism  5 Mediaeval Presences  6 Virgilian Pastoral and Horatian Lyric  7 Greek Models  8 Women’s Writing and Female Voices  9 Philosophical and Spiritual Currents  10 Conjugal Love and Family  11 Obscenity  12 Homosexuality  13 Love’s Transformations; Metamorphosis and Mannerism  14 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?Table of ContentsIntroduction : Growing for, or through, War? PART 1: Combatants 1 ‘Mak siccar!’: Hamis h Henderson (1919–2002) 2 Committed and Confessional: Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) 3 ‘The Secret Hollow’: George Campbell Hay (1915–1984) 4 ‘Private Morgan’ and ‘Geerie’ the Kriegy: Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) and Robert Garioch (1909–1981) 5 The Second Rank: Other Scottish Poets in the Forces PART 2: Non-Combatants 6 ‘The war for libertie!’ The Cases of Douglas Young (1913–1973) and Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) 7 The Home Front: Scottish Civilian Poets of World War Two 8 The Old Guard: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) and Edwin Muir (1888–1959) 9 ‘It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin’: Scottish Women Poets of World War Two Conclusion: ‘The Harvest’ Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore interpretive questions referring not only to the better-studied Catalogue of Women and the Aspis, but also to rather neglected epics such as the Megalai Ehoiai, the Melampodia, and the Marriage of Ceyx. In addition, a fair number of the papers included in this volume question the order of the Hesiodic fragments adopted in the edition of R. Merkelbach and M. L. West.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction  Irini Kyriakou Siblings in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women  Zoe Stamatopoulou In Dialogue with Tradition: Reassessing the Relationships between the Aspis and the Ehoiai  Andrea Ercolani The Alcmene Ehoie: Functional Developments of an Epic Text  Livio Sbardella Tracing Melampus in the Hesiodic Melampodia (frr. 270–272 M.-W.)  Irini Kyriakou Some Remarks on the Hesiodic Wedding of Ceyx  Adele Teresa Cozzoli An Amusing Forgery: Hesiod on Salted Fish (fr. 372 M.-W.)  Stefano Vecchiato Index

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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 SynopsisThe rhymed chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng, written between c.1305 and 1338, form a unique pair in the history of English literature and historiography. Both were written in the North of England, both deal with the history of the kings of England from Brutus to the death of Edward I in July 1307. Yet the differences between them are significant. Langtoft wrote in Anglo-Norman with a specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. Robert Mannyng translated a large part of Langtoft's work into English for a very different kind of audience. Although he stayed close to his source-text in many places, his deviations offer insights into the way the English clergy and the public they addressed viewed themselves, their history and their future. The Matter of Kings' Lives is of interest to social and political historians, especially those interested in the reign of Edward I and Anglo-Scottish relations, and to literary historians who may find that these works have more to offer than has hitherto been realized.Table of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations used in text and bibliography. A note on the reference system used in this book. I Introduction. II An Introduction to Pierre de Langtoft and his Chronicle. III Escotez la Defaute: A Reading of Langtoft's Chronicle. IV Politics and Personalities: The Purpose of Pierre de Langtoft's Chronicle. V Politics and the English People in the Early Fourteenth Century. VI An Introduction to Robert Mannyng and his Chronicle. VII Als þei þaid, ban say I: A Reading of Robert Mannyng's Chronicle. VIII I trauayled for 3our solace: anxiety and reassurance in Robert Mannyng's Chronicle. IX Epilogue. Appendix I: A List of Langtoft MSS. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book philosophically discusses the educational challenges of dwelling poetically, which, according to Martin Heidegger, means learning from great poems how to live a worthy life and relate authentically to beings and to Being. The gifts of great poetry are carefully described and concrete approaches are presented that the educator can adopt.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. One Poetry and Contemporary Human Challenges. Two Poetry as the Gift of Language. Three Poetry and Thinking. Four Poetry as Measure-Taking. Five The Origin of the Work of Art. Six Truth and Art. Seven The Encounter with Poetry. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisFor all the disciplined artifice of Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery, the essays in this collection show that panic plays a crucial role in their work, giving substance to Bishop's claim that “an element of mortal panic and fear” underlines all art. Panic emerges as a condition of creative anxiety and the self-imposed demands of originality in response to the poetic traditions Bishop and Ashbery inherited. These concerns are explored in essays addressed to Bishop and Ashbery's engagement with European Surrealism as an alternative to the dominant poetics of Modernism and its aftermath in the middle years of the twentieth century. Other essays debate the philosophical, religious, and political orientation of their work in relation to Romantic orthodoxies and Postmodern ironies in terms of cultural history, ideology and poetic practice. This collection provides original commentaries on the work of two poets widely regarded as amongst the most significant American poets of the second half of the twentieth century with essays by notable scholars from the United States and Britain known for their special interests in modern poetry including Joanne Feit Diehl, Mark Ford, Edward Larissy, Peter Nicholls, Peter Robinson, Thomas Travisano, Cheryl Walker and Geoff Ward.Trade Review"…high quality of the individual contributions." - in: MLR, 97,4 (2002), pp. 949-950 "…excellent criticism …" - in: Years Work in English Studies, Vol. 81, No. 16 (2002)Table of ContentsLionel KELLY: Introduction: Poetry and the Sense of Panic. Mark FORD: Mont d'Espoir or Mount Despair: Early Bishop, Early Ashbery, and the French. Joanne FEIT DIEHL: Aggression and Reparation: Bishop and the Matter-Of-Fact. Benjamin COLBERT: Romantic Entanglements: Ashbery and the Fragment. Helen M. DENNIS: “Questions of Travel”: Elizabeth Bishop and the Negative Sublime. Dennis BROWN: John Ashbery's “A Wave” (1983): Time and Western Man. Edward LARRISSY: “Is Anything Central?”: Ashbery and the Idea of a Centre. Thomas TRAVISANO: Elizabeth Bishop and the Origins of Narrative Postmodernism. Krystyna MAZUR: The “Unfamiliar Stereotype”: Repetition in the Poetry of John Ashbery. John PILLING: The “Hybrid Mix” of Ashbery's Three Poems, or, How Not to Be French. Peter ROBINSON: “The Bliss of What?” Cheryl WALKER: Metaphysical Surrealism in Bishop. Peter NICHOLLS: John Ashbery and Language Poetry. Geoff WARD: Before and After Language: The New American Poetry. Notes on Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn 1923, the twenty-seven-year-old Paul Hindemith published a composition for voice and piano, entitled Das Marienleben, based on Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic cycle of 1912. Twenty-five years later, the composer presented a thoroughly revised, partially rewritten version. The outcome of this revision has been highly controversial. Ever since its first publication, musicologists have argued for or against the value of such a decisive rewriting. They do so both by comparing the two compositions on purely musical grounds, and by attempting to assess whether the more strictly organized tonal layout and dynamic structuring of Marienleben II is more or less appropriate for the topic of a poetic cycle on the Life of Mary. This study is the first to analyze the messages conveyed in the two versions with an emphasis on their implicit aesthetic, philosophical, and spiritual significance. Acknowledging the compositions as examples of musical ekphrasis (“a representation in one artistic medium of a message originally composed in another medium”), the author argues in exhaustive detail that the young Hindemith of 1922-23 and the mature composer of 1941-48 can be seen as setting two somewhat different poetic cycles. This volume is of interest for musicologists and music lovers, scholars of German literature and lovers of Rilke’s poetry, as well as for readers interested in the interartistic relationships of music and literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The “Life of Mary”. Rilke and Christian Devotion. Ekphrasis in Rilke's Work: Poems on Depictions of Mary and Jesus. Hindemith: From Expressionism to the Ethos of Art. Outline of the Poetic and Musical Cycles on the “Life of Mary”. Geburt Mariä (no. 1). Die Darstellung Mariä im Tempel (no. 2). Mariä Verkündigung (no. 3). Mariä Heimsuchung (no. 4). Geburt Christi (no. 7). Vor der Passion (no. 10). Pietà (no. 11). Stillung Mariä mit dem Auferstandenen (no. 12). Vom Tode Mariä I (no. 13). Vom Tode Mariä II (no. 14). The Five “Picturesque” Songs. Conclusion: Hindemith's Ekphrastic Response to Rilke's Marien-Leben. Bibliography. List of Illustrations. Indes of Names. Index of Literary and Musical Works Cited. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisIdeas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry a particular cultural focus on the mental world and formulates a multivalent model of the mind behind it, as the seat of emotions, the site of temptation, the container of knowledge, and a heroic weapon. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry treats a wide range of Old English literary genres (in the context of their Latin sources and analogues where applicable) in order to discover how ideas about the mind shape the narrative, didactic, and linguistic design of poetic discourse. Particular attention is paid to the rich and slippery vernacular vocabulary for the mind which suggests a special interest in the subject in Old English poetry. The book argues that Anglo-Saxon poets were acutely conscious of mental functions and perceived the psychological basis not only of the cognitive world, but also of the emotions and of the spiritual life.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations I Introduction II The Vocabulary of the Mind III The Control of the Mind: Wisdom Poetry IV The Psychology of Temptation: Hagiography V The Mind as the Seat of Emotions: the Elegiac Strain VI The Heroic Frame of Mind: Beowulf VII Conclusion: Cognition and Poetics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough internationally renowned as a novelist, journalist, and essayist, Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970) never established a reputation as a poet. Yet it was Maurice Barrès’s favourable review of his first collection of verse, Les Mains jointes, that launched Mauriac’s career in 1910. He went on to publish three further collections of poems and insisted to the end of his life that, despite critical neglect of his verse, he remained first and foremost a poet. This book offers the first ever in-depth exploration of the whole of Mauriac’s verse output. After a chapter tracing his general conception of poetry and comparing his ideas to those of other poets and theorists, each of Mauriac’s verse collections is analysed in turn, as are many of his poems that were published exclusively in literary journals. A final chapter explores the significant relationship between Mauriac’s verse and his novels, revealing the multiple connections between these two series of texts. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in twentieth-century French poetry and, more generally, to those interested in the relationship between verse and prose.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and references Introduction 1. Mauriac and Poetry 2. The Birth of a Poet: Les Mains jointes 3. Goodbye to All That? L’Adieu à l’adolescence 4. Transitional Verse (1): ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Elégie’ 5. Transitional Verse (2): The War Years 6. Storms of Passion: Orages 7. Christianized Myth: Le Sang d’Atys 8. The End of the Affair: ‘Ebauche d’Endymion’ 9. A Poetic Novelist Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPoetry and music have seldom been more closely associated than at the end of the nineteenth century, and the texts in which Baudelaire and Wagner, Mallarmé and Scriabin, Maeterlinck and Debussy evoked the reader’s and the listener’s states of mind are unusually rich in suggestion. Can poetry combine, as music seems to do, the transcendent satisfaction of an all-inclusive viewpoint with the excitement and uncertainty of an unfolding narrative? Can it partake of music’s power in order to give a face to the idea, and substitute, without disappointing, a definite variation for the ineffable theme? Symbolist writers intent on achieving musical effects in words looked for ways to overcome the hard division of subjects at the foundation of language, and the strategies they invented, while not always successful, show their supreme expectations concerning the receptive capability of their audience and an unqualified belief in the transforming power of their art. Students of aesthetics, of French and comparative literature should find something of interest in this provocative and original book. For ease of reference, a detailed abstract of the contents is provided, along with English translations of all quotations in other languages.Trade Review”…Marvick’s remarkable study […] will prove to be invaluable to all those interested in the interplay between the parallel Symbolist worlds of music and poetics.” in: French Review, Vol. 79, No. 3, 2006Table of ContentsForeword Abstract 1. Rhythm, Variation, and Unity of Form 2. The Integrity of the Symbol 3. Subject and Setting in Two Symbolist Plays 4. René Ghil and the Contradictions of Synesthesia 5. Two Versions of the Symbolist Apocalypse Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrench Prose in 2000 stems in some important measure from work presented in September 1998 at the International Colloquium on French and Francophone Literature in the 1990’s held at Dalhousie University. A good number of papers given at that time, and since revisited in the light of exchanges, join here certain others specifically written for the purposes of this book. Together they constitute a wide-ranging and modally varied interrogation of the current state of French and francophone prose writing, its multifaceted manners, its richly divergent fascinations, its many theoretical or philosophical groundings. The book thus ceaselessly moves its attention from fictional biography to the roman noir, from the writing of Glissant and Chamoiseau to that of the étonnants voyageurs, from the powerful discourse of women such as Chawaf or Condé, Ernaux or Germain, Sallenave or Kristeva, to that of writers as diverse in their modes as Le Clézio and Quignard, Duras and Renaud Camus. All chapters focus, however, in near-exclusive measure, on the prose production of the last ten or twelve years.Table of ContentsJean-Pol Madou: Edouard Glissant: Tout-Monde, une poétique de l’archipel (Par-delà Faulkner et Saint-John Perse) Dominique Viart: L’imagination biographique dans la littérature française des années 1980-90 Elise Noetinger: Gestes de femmes dans Diego et Frida et Poisson d’or de J.M.G. Le Clézio Charles Forsdick: Fin de siècle, fin des voyages? Michel Le Bris and the search for une littérature voyageuse Sjef Houppermans: “P.A.” ou le livre selon Camus Leah D. Hewitt: Transmigrations in Maryse Condé’s true tales Monique Saigal: La récupération de la mère chez Jeanne Hyvrard et Chantal Chawaf Edmund Smyth: The fiction of Jean Rouaud: perception, memory and identity Nicole Trèves: Chère madame ma fille cadette de Raphaële Billetdoux: biographie, autobiographie ou livre inclassable? Bruno Thibault: “A l’écoute de ceux qui sont à la traîne”: le récit dialogué dans Adieu et dans Viol de Danièle Sallenave Claire-Lise Tondeur: Ecrire la honte (Annie Ernaux) H. Adlai Murdoch: Postcolonial peripheries revisited: Chamoiseau’s rewriting of Francophone culture Sanda Golopentia: Sylvie Germain: un rappel au mystère de l’être humain David Platten: The impact of the contemporary Roman Noir: Pennac, Daeninckx, and the question of a cultural evolution Ieme van der Poel: Possessions: la Sainte Trinité revue par Julia Kristeva Jean-Louis Pautrot: La voix narrative chez Pascal Quignard: de l’oracle à la fraternité Roland Bonnel: Le surcroît de responsabilité dans l’oeuvre de Volkoff Metka Zupancic: L’au-delà irrésistible: Chantal Chawaf, Le Manteau noir Susan Jordan Myers: Sébastien Japrisot: it’s a crazy game, the search for truth Jacques La Mothe: “L’autre extrémité du temps”, une lecture de La Quarantaine de J.M.G. Le Clézio Lisa McNee: Ourika en famille: mémoire collective et altérité Lylian Bourgois: La Mer écrite de Duras ou la fin d’une Marguerite Isabelle Décarie: Le Protocole compassionnel d’Hervé Guibert: une écriture-transfusion – Sarah Cant: The writer and the representation of experience in Annie Ernaux’s La Honte Cheryl Toman: A day in the life of Belleville: the new face of contemporary France in a Paris neighborhood Maïr Verthuy: Peinture et polar à l’aube d’un nouveau siècle: Tonino Benacquista et Daniel Picouly

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Book SynopsisIn Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphaël Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. This study explores the interactions between post-war English poets and the ways in which they transformed or misread earlier poetic visions of England – Romantic, Georgian, Modernist. It also traces often neglected but crucial links between their troubled poetics of Englishness and Seamus Heaney’s poetry of Irish nationhood. This radically intertextual approach takes issue with influential accounts of post-war poetry that have drawn on postcolonialism. Instead of being made to reflect contemporary agendas, the poetics of nationhood are here considered in all their textual and ideological complexity, and restored to the historical, intellectual and literary contexts which postcolonial emphases on identity often play down or simplify. Whereas critics in post-devolution Britain increasingly use texts to debunk or promote specific versions of national identity, this study interrogates the very terms in which the debate has been conducted. Its metacritical analyses expose the contradictions of identity politics, and its intertextual readings help re-draw the map of post-war poetry in Britain and Ireland.Trade Review"…alert textual analyses…" - in: PN Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (May-June 2003) "illuminating emphasis upon philology…" - in: Symbiosis - A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations (April 2004) "…most notable about his study is his alertness tot eh ways in which poetry plays a role in deconstructing, […] rather than simple registering national identity." - in: Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 82.5 (2003)

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Book SynopsisThis study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German ‘Wende’ was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification ‘Literaturstreit’. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet’s role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. Two central chapters then gather the poetry of the ‘Wende’ and unification as a corpus of work and characterize it, through the elucidation of recurring themes, motifs and techniques. The volume strikes a balance between giving a general overview of poetry written in 1989-1996 and focusing on individual poets whose work is particularly compelling. After identifying broad trends across a wide range of individual poems, collections and anthologies, single chapters therefore examine in greater depth the work of Volker Braun and Durs Grünbein. The concluding chapter addresses the issue of a separate GDR literature. Finally, an extensive, structured bibliography is provided, covering the poetry, literary criticism and cultural history of the period.Trade Review"…it is important that Rodopi have now published Owen’s extremely detailed and meticulously researched thesis…." - in: Modern Language Review, 98.1 (2003), pp. 248-249 "Owen has performed an outstanding service in tracing the manner in which these figures recorded the deep social, psychological and emotional issues raised by events, and although more specific analyses of individual poets will certainly follow, it seems unlikely her general analysis can be superseded." - in: Journal of European Studies, Vol. XXXIII (2003)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: The Poet’s Role in the GDR 1949-1989 3: History and Poetry: ‘Wende-Zeitgedichte’ 4: ‘Die Stimmen der Verlierer’: Post-Unification Poetry by ex-GDR Poets 5: The End of a Role: Volker Braun’s Post-‘Wende’ Poetry 6: The Beginning of a Role: Durs Grünbein’s Post-‘Wende’ Poetry 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisTradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a woman’s place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays.Table of ContentsBarbara GARLICK: Introduction 1 Virginia BLAIN: “Be these his daughters?” Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disruption in a Patriarchal Poetics of Women’s Autobiography 2 Meg TASKER: Aurora Leigh: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Novel Approach to the Woman Poet 3 E. WARWICK SLINN: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Problem of Female Agency 4 Debra FRIED: In Daisy’s Lane: Variants and Personification in Emily Dickinson 5 Lori LEBOW: Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics: Text, Lies and Autobiography 6 Susan CONLEY: Burying the Medusa: Romantic Bloodlines in Christina Rossetti’s Gothic Epistle 7 Sharon BICKLE: A Woman of Women for “A Sonnet of Sonnets”: Exploring Female Subjectivity in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” 8 C.C. BARFOOT: “Thus only in a dream”: Appetite in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry. 9. Barbara GARLICK: Defacing the Self: Christina Rossetti’s The Face of the Deep as Absolution 10 Tomoko TAKAGUCHI: Christina Rossetti in Secrecy: Revising the Poetics of Sensibility Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing ‘new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.Table of ContentsBarbara KORTE: Flowers to be picked: Anthologies of Poetry in (British) Literary and Cultural Studies. Robert CRAWFORD: Poetry, Memory, and the Nation. Jonathan BARKER: Poetry and Readers: A View from Diverse Councils. Tony LACEY: The Anthology Problem: A Publisher's View. Joerg O. FICHTE: Medieval Lyrics in Twentieth-Century Anthologies: Defining the Canon. Christoph BODE: Re-definitions of the Canon of English Romantic Poetry in Recent Anthologies. Arno LÖFFLER: Anthologising English Poetry for (German) Students. Iain GALBRAITH: Anthologizing Scottish Poetry. Christopher HARVIE: The Northern Muse. Julian LETHBRIDGE: The Anthology as a Guide to Early Modern Reading Practices. Monika GOMILLE: Anthologies of the Early Seventeenth Century: Aspects of Media and Authorship. Barbara BENEDICT: Connoisseurship and the Literary Collection. Christine BAATZ: Printing the Flowers: Aspects of Typography in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Anthologies. The Case of Percy's Reliques. Stefanie LETHBRIDGE: Reading the Eighteenth-Century Long Poem as an Anthology. Klaus Peter MÜLLER: Victorian Values: Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Daniel GÖSKE: Transatlantic Modernism in Poetry Anthologies. Hans-Werner LUDWIG: Make It New: The Politics of Poetry Anthologies in English from the Sixties to the Present Day. Michael HULSE: The Critical Reception of The New Poetry. Ralf SCHNEIDER: Of Love, Cats and Football: Popular Anthologies in Britain Today - Between Culture and Commodity? Thomas ROMMEL: Eliza Doolittle and the Virtual Text: The Future of Electronic Anthologies.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty essays investigates a series of different aspects of poetic influence in relation to the major modernist poet, Ezra Pound. The volume commences with five essays on matters to do with translation and poetic influence, which situate Ezra Pound as an important transitional figure between 19th-century and 20th-century translation strategies. The next five essays consider different influences on Pound’s poetry, and introduce the reader to new research in a variety of areas, including how specific Chinese cultural artefacts inform his poetry. The following five essays explore Pound’s influence on some of his major contemporaries, such as Eugenio Montale and Charles Olson, and also (through the reading he gave her as a girl) on his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. The concluding five essays exemplify different approaches to the thorny issue of Pound and politics, and end with two diametrically opposed interpretations of Pound’s political / poetic thought. The collection will be of great interest to scholars of Ezra Pound and of modern to postmodern poetry; but it will also serve as a useful and lively introduction to some of the debates within Pound scholarship to students coming to his work for the first time.Trade Review"Of a consistently high quality across their considerable diversity, together they [the essays] make for a volume that will be an invaluable tool or guide for Poundian specialist and reader alike." - in: American Studies, Vol. 36 (2002), pp. 344-346 "…significant contribution to Pound Studies this year…" - in: Years Work in English Studies, Vol. 81, No. 16 (2002) "…a representative cross-section of the variousness within ‘Influence’ … [a] rich banquet." - in: MLR, 98.3 (2003)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. William PRATT, “To Have Gathered from the Air a Live Tradition”: Pound’s Poetic Legacy 2. David GORDON, “The River-Merchant’s Wife”: after 80 years an update 3. Milne HOLTON, Poets and Gaol-Birds: Pound, Lowell, and Villon 4. Helen M. DENNIS, The Translation Strategies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn 5. Roxana PREDA, The Broken Pieces of the Vessel: Pound and Cavalcanti 6. Diana COLLECOTT, “This pother about the Greeks”: Hellenism and Anti-Hellenism in 1914 7. Stefano M. CASELLA, Ezra Pound and Cunizza da Romano: Fragments of an Unfinished Epic Poem 8. Leon SURETTE, Ezra Pound and Richard Hovey 9. Zhaoming QIAN, Pound and Chinese Art in the British Museum Era_ 10. Naikan TAO, Canto IV and the “Peach-Blossom-Fountain” Poetic 11. Burton Hatlen, Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the Origins of Projective Verse 12. Hélène AJI, Jerome Rothenberg Reading Ezra Pound 13. Massimo BACIGALUPO, Pound and Montale 14. Tony LOPEZ, Pound and Postmodern British Poets 15. Evelyn HALLER, Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock and Ezra Pound’s Daughter, Mary 16. Richard TAYLOR, Towards a Reading Text of The Cantos 17. Michael FAHERTY, Defeated But Not Destroyed: the Prison Poems of Ezra Pound and Wilfred Scawen Blunt 18. Ted BLAKE, America’s Lord Haw-Haw: The Trial of Ezra Pound in the Popular Press 19. Scott EASTHAM, Modernism contra Modernity: the ‘case’ of Ezra Pound 20. William McNAUGHTON, The Secret History of St. Elizabeths Notes on contributors Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSeven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance Anthony Mortimer presents a unique anthology of 136 English poems together with the specific Italian texts that they translate, adapt or exploit. The result, with its revealing juxtapositions of major and minor figures, makes fascinating reading for anyone who wants to get beyond broad generalizations about Petrarchism and see exactly what English poets made of Petrarch's celebrated sequence. Reviewing the first edition, Professor Brian Vickers wrote: An ideal text-book for university courses in English or Comparative Literature. The critical introduction is a fresh, independent and accurate survey of the role of Petrarchism in the English Renaissance ... our literary history is being rewritten, more accurately.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction The Poems General Bibliography Glossary Index of Authors Index of Italian First Lines Index of English First Lines

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Book SynopsisBerryman’s Henry: Living at the Intersection of Need and Art offers scholars and students the first thorough and well-researched vehicle into John Berryman’s epic poem The Dream Songs. Through a close reading of the text, an examination of the history of its criticism and some of Berryman’s letters, notes, and pertinent manuscripts, Sam Dodson offers the reader a solid starting point to appreciate the presiding structure and thematic focus of this American classic. This structure, resulting from the poet’s crafting and the poem’s internal growth, is illustrated in the text by more than thirty reproductions of some of the Dream Song drafts in progress. No existing critical work examines anywhere near the number of individual Dream Songs as this reader’s guide, which will enable students and teachers to enter Berryman’s difficult poem with confidence and a proper sense of direction. Its purpose is to provide the beginning reader and the scholar with a map for approaching this large work and finding their way through its elegiac structure and appreciating its unity. A close look at the poem's language and stylistic innovations, epic qualities and author’s poetics, and most especially the elegiac movement of the poem, will allow even the novice reader to enter Henry’s world. The elegies as a whole provide the note of mourning that is at the core of Berryman’s epic.Trade Review”Berryman’s Henry is a work of impressive scholarship and valuable insights. Sam Dodson’s treatment of ‘The Dream Songs’ as a modern, personal epic convincingly places it within the context of other works in the genre. Readers will also find new light shed on the text’s elegiac underpinnings.” – Richard J. KellyTable of ContentsPreface Prologue: Elegy as Theology: Henry’s Search for Death’s Answers Chapter 1: Henry’s Other Method: The Epic’s Freedom of Language in an Experimental Age Chapter 2: The Paternal Elegies: The Dream Songs’ Shroud Chapter 3: Henry “pale & ill”: Berryman’s Elegies of Praise and the Last Word Chapter 4: Posthumous Musings from an Active Coffin Chapter 5: Henry’s Uneasy Rest Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYves Bonnefoy’s writings have won him praise not only from readers and critics of French poetry, but also, thanks to translations into many other languages, from readers and critics of poetry far beyond the francophone world. Indeed, Bonnefoy may be the most admired poet to have emerged in France since World War II. Yet his art criticism, dazzling in its scope, possibly as original as his poetry, is yet to receive the attention it deserves. Searching for Presence: Yves Bonnefoy’s Writings on Art undertakes to fill that lacuna. Elusive, skirting the ineffable, the notion of presence has haunted Bonnefoy for decades. Central to the notion for the poet is the fleeting experience of mutuality between self and other, of lightning transaction in a transient world, of a shared mortal destiny, hence a plenitude within finitude. In an age when so many of his contemporaries seem to view any form of art as wallpaper spanning a void, Bonnefoy’s faith in presence is all the more welcome. Focusing on his art criticism, the aspect of the poet’s oeuvre in which the notion of presence is the most salient, this study tries to do justice to that fidelity.Table of ContentsPreface Part I. Historical Background 1. Baudelaire’s Salons as a Source Book 2. The Emergence of Poésie Critique Part II. A Twentieth-Century Context 3. Apollinaire, Malraux and a Space for Poésie Critique 4. Other Options for Poésie Critique : Ponge and Char 5. A Bonnefoy Mentor : Pierre Jean Jouve Part III. Yves Bonnefoy’s Art Criticism 6. Gothic Murals and Baroque Excess 7. Giacometti and Presence 8. From the Quattrocento to Tiepolo 9. Twentieth-Century Art 10. Presence in Delacroix and Shakespeare 11. Forms of Exchange Part IV. Bonnefoy’s Legacy 12. A Bonnefoy Heir: Claude Esteban Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCe volume se propose d’envisager un large panorama de la poésie du XXe siècle, du surréalisme à nos jours, à travers une interrogation fondamentale sur la question du lieu. Le lieu n’est pas un thème, mais une notion philosophique, tout droit venue de Heidegger mais aussi de Kant et de Platon. Comme nous sommes au XXe siècle, ère de la modernité et de l’incertitude, il se présente sous forme de question. La variété des lieux (ville / campagne) et de la position face à cette question permet de mieux comprendre l’évolution de la poésie au XXe siècle, fortement pensante (le dialogue philosophie/poésie s’impose), et la réflexion sur la notion de lieu ouvre sur une meilleure compréhension de ce qu’est la poésie en général.Table of ContentsMichel COLLOT, préface INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE I : LE LIEU COMME QUESTION 1 – L’étonnement d’être 2 - Où est mon pays ? 3 - Parler – se taire : une question de vie ou de mort 4 - Portrait du poète en balayeur 5 - L’enjeu identitaire : l’interrogation surréaliste CHAPITRE II : LIEU ET ESPACE 1- Le lieu n’est pas l’espace 2 - Profondeur élémentaire, nombril du monde 3 - Enfanter le monde 4 - Vers le lieu – sous le ciel CHAPITRE III : TEMPS ET LIEU (LA MÉMOIRE) 1- Interdépendance de l’espace et du temps 2 - Donner le temps, accorder le lieu 3 - Le temps a-t-il jamais eu lieu ? 4 - La tentation de l’immémorial 5 - Dialectique de l’amont et de l’aval CHAPITRE IV : LE LIEU COMME SACR E 1 - Le lieu à la lumière du sacré 2 - La tentation païenne 3 -Vers l’abstraction métaphysique CHAPITRE V : LIEU ET POLITIQUE 1 - Le lieu est-il réactionnaire ? 2 - La question de l’engagement CHAPITRE VI : ENTRE REGARD ET CHANT 1 - Le regard : formes brèves et haïku 2 - Les mots, le chant CHAPITRE VII : LES PROBLÈMES DE L’IMAGE 1 - Rappels historiques 2 - Reverdy et Breton 3 - L’ambiguïté de la modernité face à l’image CHAPITRE VIII : ENTRE PROSE ET POÈME 1 - Le va-et-vient entre prose et vers 2 - Vers un renouvellement dans la tradition CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHIE INDEX DES PERSONNES, REVUES, ET PRINCIPAUX MOUVEMENTS LITTERAIRES TABLE DES MATIERES

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Book SynopsisMuch poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off from human concerns. This study of three poets, André du Bouchet, Philippe Jaccottet and Bernard Noël, who have not been compared before, argues that space is inseparable from time in their work, which is always in transition. The different ways in which the provisional operates in their writing show the wide range of forms that modern poetry can take: an insistence on the figure of the interval, hesitant movement, or exuberant impulse. As well as examining the imaginative universes of the poets through close attention to the texts, this book considers the important contribution they have made in their prose writing to our understanding of the visual arts and poetry translation, in themselves transitional activities. It argues that these writers have, in different ways, succeeded in creating poetic worlds that attest to close and constantly changing contact with the real.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Poetry in Time 2. Words in the Air 3. Art and the Book: Du Bouchet, Noël and the Visual Arts 4. The Foreign Language: Jaccottet, du Bouchet and Translation 5. Silence: Noël, Jaccottet and the Limits of Language Conclusion Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisÉcrite en dépit de radicales réticences vis-à-vis du genre romanesque, la trilogie d’Hortense conte avec une légèreté feinte les aventures romanesques d’une héroïne un peu « fleur(s) bleue(s) », entremêlées d’énigmes policières conduites par les inspecteurs Blognard et Arapède. Ce mélange des genres, mâtiné d’un art ludique de l’allusion collective et personnelle permet un grand nombre d’hommages appuyés, tant l’univers de ces romans se développe sur un vaste substrat : celui du large spectre des lectures de Roubaud. Pour la première fois, dans cet essai, on se propose de faire l’examen approfondi de cette incursion en pays romanesque menée par notre poète mathématicien et, de surcroît, oulipien qui mime et mine les conventions inhérentes au roman – genre sans règle – pour les troquer contre une écriture contrainte, intertextuelle, rimante. Ce texte n’a pas d’autre ambition que de guider le lecteur dans les mondes textuels, à la fois savoureusement labyrinthiques et formellement ordonnés de Jacques Roubaud.Table of ContentsPremière partie : Mimer : à l’eau de prose Chapitre 1 : Romancier malgré lui ? Chapitre 2 : Aencrages Deuxième partie : Miner : Jeux et enquêtes textuelles Chapitre 3 : «Manières de faire des mondes» Chapitre 4 : Du roman policier au roman policé Troisième partie : Rimer : Énigmes formelles, règles, contraintes Chapitre 5 : Formules Chapitre 6 : Hors du labyrinthe ? – Contraintes d’écritures et contraintes de lectures Conclusion Bibliographie Index des noms propres Table

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays, which should appeal both to Slavists and students of comparative literature, deals with twelve major twentieth-century Russian poets who, for varied reasons, became estranged from the Soviet state. Some stayed in Russia to become inner émigrés, others chose to go into exile in the West. One less hope, one more song (Akhmatova’s words), stands both for their suffering and often their deaths, but also for their humanity and poetic achievement. The poets in question are Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Nikolay Gumilev, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladislav Khodasevich, Boris Poplavsky, Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. The whole collection is followed by a cultural perspective of the Russian 19th and 20th centuries.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conscience in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetic Work Marina Tsvetaeva’s Mystic Path Vladislav Khodasevich’s Nightmare World Boris Poplavsky: Poet of Unknown Destination The Ebb of Joseph Brodsky’s Poetic Inspiration The Search for the Cosmic Connection in Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Nikolay Gumilev’s The Pillar of Fire Alexander Blok’s The Twelve Alienation in Sergey Esenin’s Poetry Osip Mandelshtam’s Stone and Tristia. Poet of Loneliness Epilogue A Cultural Perspective

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Book SynopsisTo mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller’s standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller’s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller’s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller’s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.Trade Review"…a worthy memorial to the author…" – in: Modern Language Review 102 (2007), 1177-78 "…[ein] sehr lesenswerte[r] Tagungsband…" – in: literaturkritik.de 1 (January 2007) "This is an important book." – in: Forum for Modern Language Studies 43 (2007), 193-94 "The volume is beautifully edited and printed. […] it is a welcome addition to other publications celebrating the Schiller bicentenary. It contains contributions that will be cited for years to come." – in: German Quarterly 80 (2007), 254-56Table of ContentsNicholas MARTIN: Introduction: Schiller After Two Centuries T. J. REED: Wie hat Schiller überlebt? Lesley SHARPE: A National Repertoire: Schiller and the Theatre of his Day Norbert OELLERS: Schiller, der “Heros”. Mit ergänzenden Bemerkungen zu einigen seiner Dramen-Helden Jochen GOLZ: Monumente zu Lebzeiten? – Schiller als Herausgeber seiner Werke K. F. HILLIARD: “Nicht in Person sondern durch einen Repräsentanten”: Problematik der Repräsentation bei Schiller David HILL: Lenz and Schiller: All’s well that ends well Steffan DAVIES: Schiller’s Egmont and the Beginnings of Weimar Classicism John GUTHRIE: Language and Gesture in Schiller’s Later Plays Francis LAMPORT: Virgins, Bastards and Saviours of the Nation: Reflections on Schiller’s Historical Drama Ritchie ROBERTSON: Schiller and the Jesuits Alexander KOŠENINA: Schiller’s Poetics of Crime Jeffrey L. HIGH: Schiller, “merely political Revolutions”, the personal Drama of Occupation, and Wars of Liberation Maike OERGEL: The German Identity, the German Querelle and the Ideal State: A Fresh Look at Schiller’s Fragment “Deutsche Größe” David PUGH: Schiller and the Crisis of German Liberalism Nicholas MARTIN: Images of Schiller in National Socialist Germany Paul BISHOP: The “Schillerbild” of Werner Deubel: Schiller as “Poet of the Nation”? Anhang/Appendix: Schillerjahr 2005. Selected Events and Publications Personenregister/Index of Names Register der Werke Schillers/Index of Schiller’s Works

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Book SynopsisMontaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin’s legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways Russian poets have looked at themselves and at poetic language; that novelisation of poetry is detectable in the major works of poetry that engaged in a creative dialogue with Pushkin, and that polyphonic lyric has been achieved. Alexandra Smith locates significant examples of Pushkin’s cinematographic cognition of reality, suggesting that such dynamic descriptions of Petersburg helped create a highly original animated image of the city as comic apocalypse, which followers of Pushkin appropriated very successfully even as far as the late twentieth century. Montaging Pushkin will be of interest to all students of Russian poetry, as well as specialists in literary theory, European studies and the history of ideas.Trade Review"Smith’s thesis is both startling and original: that Pushkin, for all his Mozart-like fluidity and perfection, can be productively read as a poet of pain and violence. His reflex was to respond to the totalizing, authoritative public landscape of his era with an equally severe but specifically private, individualizing, disciplined set of demands on the Poet. The recurring attention that later generations have paid toward those aspects of Pushkin’s life and texts governed by the private right to resist or to initiate violence (his duel, his struggles with the bureaucracy, his failed pursuit of service with honour) suggest that this mythologeme is among the most productive in Pushkin’s astonishing legacy" – Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Chair of the Slavic Department, Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University "Smith’s innovative study offers a wonderful analysis of how cinematographic editing and polyphony are detected in Russian twentieth-century poetry… It views Pushkin as a ‘référence obligée’ of contemporary urban poetry" – Véronique Lossky, Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature, Université de Paris-Sorbonne IVTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. From Pushkin’s poetics of exile to the concept of writing as 2. Pushkin’s Petersburg as comic apocalypse 3. 20th-century Pushkinian poetic responses to modernity & urban spectatorship 4. Modernity as writing: Pushkin readers & the Pushkin Myth 5. Conclusion Bibliography Additional Reading Index

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Book SynopsisProposant comme objet commun d’interrogation « le sens et la présence du sujet poétique », tel qu’il se manifeste ou se refuse, dérive ou déborde, s’éprouve ou s’échappe dans la production poétique de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, le présent volume réunit un nombre considérable d’études et de réflexions qui, parties de divers postulats, penchants ou postures d’écriture, englobent bien des courants et des clivages dont s’alimentent encore fructueusement aujourd’hui, mais non sans les contester ou les réorienter, poésie et pensée critique. De l’absence à la présence, de la froide objectivation dispositale aux troublants sursauts et silences de l’instance subjective, de la négativité du re-jet à la palpitation difficilement localisable du sub-jet ou du sur-jet, le lecteur est convié à savourer un très large et très riche éventail d’approches qui convergent toutes sur la même problématique en éclairant avec finesse l’étonnante pluralité d’enjeux autour desquels s’articulent la poésie et ses précarités, ses percées, sa haute pertinence.Table of ContentsMichael BROPHY, Mary GALLAGHER: RELIEFS DU SUJET Marie-Claire BANCQUART: Gérard Titus-Carmel, ou « l’apparat d’absence » Michael BISHOP: Le théâtre de l’ouvert Lucie BOURASSA: Du clochard à l’histrion : figures du sujet dans Il n’y a plus de chemin de Jacques Brault Michael BROPHY: Le passant et le reste chez Bernard Noël Colette CAMELIN: Un corps-esprit : la question du sujet poétique dans Patmos et autres poèmes et dans Apprentissages Élisabeth CARDONNE-ARLYCK: Entre Agnès CASTIGLIONE: Passion lyrique d’Yves Charnet Mary Ann CAWS: Qu’est-ce que la poésie en France peut nous dire en ce moment ? Yves CHARNET: Hors de moi. Lettre à Bernard Noël Michel COLLOT: Se retrouver paysage Mary GALLAGHER: L’assujettissement du sujet poétique des Antilles françaises ? Jérôme GAME: Cut-up et montage : d’un sujet constructiviste dans la poésie de Vannina Maestri Jean-Marie GLEIZE: [j’] Laure HELMS: « Une voix venue d’ailleurs » : voix et mémoire dans la poésie de Louis-René des Forêts Hugh HOCHMAN: Jacques Réda et le lecteur exemplaire de La Fontaine Lucie HOTTE: Identité collective et identité individuelle : le sujet poétique en poésie franco-ontarienne Michael G. KELLY: Intermittences et perspectives du sujet poétique chez Alferi et Tortel Jean KHALFA: Ontologie et subjectivité chez Césaire Daniel LEUWERS: Dominique Fourcade : une question de cordes vocales Jean-Michel MAULPOIX: De la responsabilité du poète… Philippe MET: « Poésie ou mort, ou quelque chose d’approchant » : la mort du sujet dans les carnets de Pierre-Albert Jourdan Michèle MONTE: Runes de Jean Grosjean et La grande neige d’Yves Bonnefoy: de l’étrangeté pragmatique à la lecture allégorique Véronique MONTÉMONT: Épouser le monde : individualité et universalité du sujet poétique chez Lorand Gaspar John NAUGHTON: Un nouveau Bonnefoy? Patrick NÉE: De la « présence » selon Yves Bonnefoy Pierre OUELLET: Zoopoièsis. Éthologie du sujet poétique Claude PÉREZ: Olivier Cadiot poète lyric’ Jean-Claude PINSON: Ironie et lyrisme Anne-Christine ROYÈRE: « Je ne suis que là où le rouge me fendre » : l’« horrible en dedans – en dehors » ou l’absolue transitivité du sujet dans la poésie d’Emmanuel Laugier John C. STOUT: « La poésie est un enjouement irréparable » : la subjectivité lyrique déjouée dans la poésie de Mathieu Messagier Renée VENTRESQUE: Le « tourniquet-poème » de James Sacré Nathalie WATTEYNE: Voix d’outre-tombe dans les poèmes en prose d’Isabelle Pinçon et de Louise Dupré Steven WINSPUR: L’absence joyeuse de sujet chez Philippe Jaccottet Index

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