Art and Poetry in an NHS Hospital's Elevator Bank.
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DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.657
Abstract: Our Storeys is a "social wallpaper" installation combining poetry and visual art on 4 walls covering a 4-story elevator lobby in a hospital entrance. This article considers how the artists sought to create a work… read more here.
Keywords: poetry nhs; art poetry; hospital; poetry ... See more keywords
Blurred Boundaries: Russian Poetry and Soviet Politics During the Thaw
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2017.04.008
Abstract: Abstract This article examines how lyric poetry became a cultural phenomenon and socio-political force in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In large part this became a battle over language, with poets pushing for an… read more here.
Keywords: boundaries russian; blurred boundaries; poetry; poetry soviet ... See more keywords
Kenton Storey. Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 298. $65 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.228
Abstract: acts of “unauthorized poetic reproduction [that were] foundational to colonial culture” (46). Chapter 3 discusses global Scottish migration and the ways in which the creation of a fabricated “Scottish dialect,” rendered in songs and ballads… read more here.
Keywords: colonial; colonialism; kenton storey; poetry ... See more keywords
A Common Humanity? From Poetry to Philosophy in Hugo Grotius
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2022.441
Abstract: This essay shows how Hugo Grotius (1583–1646) made use of classical poetry and drama, especially that of Lucan, Euripides, and Seneca, in developing his thought on the treatment of captives, prisoners of war, and slaves,… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; poetry philosophy; hugo grotius; common humanity ... See more keywords
POETRY ON THE ADVANCE: THE EMERGENCE AND FORMATION OF A POETIC CULTURE IN ROMAN BRITAIN
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DOI: 10.1017/s0017383520000054
Abstract: The way in which the Roman army, as a major factor contributing to relative mobility of individuals within the Roman Empire, may be thought of as a driver behind the diffusion and general dynamic of… read more here.
Keywords: emergence formation; advance emergence; poetry advance; roman ... See more keywords
‘If I Speak, They Will Kill Me, to Remain Silent Is to Die’: Poetry of resistance in General Zia's Pakistan (1977–88)
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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x17000130
Abstract: Abstract The ethnic and sectarian divisions that were part of General Zia's (1977–88) political strategies in Pakistan were resisted not only through street protest and political opposition, but also in the realm of culture. In… read more here.
Keywords: kill remain; remain silent; resistance; speak kill ... See more keywords
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. By Amelia M. Glaser. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiv, 353 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $39.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2023.76
Abstract: terms “diaspora,” “emigration,” “exile” had not become “archaic,” “aged” (245, 246, inter alia). As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine wiped the slate clean, the vaunted “global connectivity” has revealed the ugly face of censorship as vicious… read more here.
Keywords: times yiddish; songs dark; poetry; dark times ... See more keywords
Breaking the Silences about Non-hetero Female Sexuality in Saghi Ghahraman’s Poetry
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1661730
Abstract: ABSTRACT Born in Iran, Saghi Ghahraman, an Iranian poet, lives in exile in Canada currently. Ghahraman founded Gilgamishaan Books, and founded and operated the Exiled Writers Club for two years. Zhe has been running the… read more here.
Keywords: ghahraman; breaking silences; poetry; saghi ghahraman ... See more keywords
Dagbamba and Akan praise poetry acts as a lucid narrative platform for historical and political events
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DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2020.1733819
Abstract: The past happenings of societies are brought together in a celebratory manner in most African praise poems. The present article seeks to look at praise poetry in two Ghanaian societies – the Akan and the… read more here.
Keywords: praise; poetry acts; dagbamba akan; poetry ... See more keywords
Complicity and Cambridge poetry
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2016.1237991
Abstract: ABSTRACTThis paper studies the concept of complicity through the work of two Cambridge School poets, J.H. Prynne and Peter Riley. The acknowledgement of complicity in social, political, and economic injustices has been central for poets… read more here.
Keywords: riley; poetry; complicity cambridge; complicity ... See more keywords
Poetry, automaticity and the animal body: Jacques Derrida with Emily Dickinson
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2016.1276956
Abstract: ABSTRACT The article begins by addressing Derrida’s enigmatic assertion that ‘thinking concerning the animal … derives from poetry’. Derrida’s late engagement with the animal question brought into play the body, rhythm, the poetic ‘event’ and, fundamentally, the… read more here.
Keywords: poetry automaticity; emily dickinson; poetry; animal ... See more keywords