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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 639–661.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Helena Van Praet Abstract This article addresses the literary response to network forms in twenty-first-century print poetry. Through the case of Anne Carson's long poem The Beauty of the Husband (2001), it explores how contemporary poetry, whose textuality will be termed prosthetic , can engender...
View articletitled, “To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson's The <span class="search-highlight">Beauty</span> of the <span class="search-highlight">Husband</span>
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 261–285.
Published: 01 June 2023
... was found five days ago. In an emotional and intimate monologue, the daughter addresses her mother to ask why the mother has dedicated her life to her husband. The fictional daughter even compares the mother to the dogs that followed her, “faithful like a dog, an unreasonable animal” (CWE): “Ever since...
View articletitled, A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies: Older Women's Responses to Dimitri Verhulst's Novella Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Shige's neighborhood. The day ends with Noriko hosting the Hirayamas in her small studio flat, a humble space that underscores the financial difficulties she has faced since her husband's death. The scene in Noriko's flat stages an intergenerational encounter that is softer, as well as more solicitous...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 689–710.
Published: 01 December 2004
... she recognizes that her love for Aeneas is the ‘‘same love’’ that she
felt for her dead husband Sychaeus: ‘‘I recognize the tokens of the ancient
flame’’ (Conosco i segni del antica fiamma).8 These words of recognition
strike the reader as profoundly ambiguous: for if Dante’s passion is charac...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2011
... sphere. I mean that Sophy is equal to the best in the town, and she is
contented with that. (Eliot 2000 [1874]: 404)
To her credit, Rosamond refuses to show any strain under Mrs. Plymdale’s
barrage. She has her own reasons for visiting Mrs. Plymdale that day. Her
new husband, Doctor Lydgate...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in the text). When spurned by her husband for
being colored, Désirée, without changing “the thin white garment nor the slippers which
she wore, . . . walked across a deserted field, where the stubble bruised her tender feet, so
delicately shod, and tore her thin gown to shreds,” and she...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 455–478.
Published: 01 September 2022
... ([1787] 2012 ) tells the story of a young man who falls desperately in love with a beautiful, virtuous, and already-engaged young woman, Lotte. As the book's title foretells, his passion is frustrated, and after Lotte has married and she and her husband decide that the two should no longer see each...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 151–174.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for. For one thing, Sher’s version exhibits some
difficulties in handling Shklovsky’s examples of erotic ostranenie. In one tale
the husband fails to recognize his wife, who is dressed up as a warrior and
refers to herself using the masculine form. In English she calls her husband
“dear” in the very first...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 117–142.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the
second half of the sixteenth century (see Chastel 1994).
The accidental death of King Henri II (Catherine’s husband) in 1559
marked France’s entry into an intensely tumultuous period known as
the wars of religion, fiercely fought between Catholics and Protestants
(see Crouzet...
View articletitled, The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre and Baroque Tendencies in France: The Impact of Religious Turmoils on the Aesthetics of the French Renaissance
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 327–346.
Published: 01 September 2020
... husband has murdered the couple s three children in a fit of jealous rage. Now, nearly two years later, Lloyd writes Doree a letter from the hospital where he is incarcerated, recounting a vision: Heaven exists. . . . I have seen and talked to [the chil- dren. And they] are fine. Really happy and smart...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 53–118.
Published: 01 June 2013
... —
and so we infer that The Franklin’s Tale might end disastrously. Compare the
Ovidian story of Ceyx and Alcyone in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, where
Ceyx loses his life in a tempest. Given the intensity of Dorigen’s terror re-
garding her husband’s safety, we may at this point envisage Arveragus...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 371–375.
Published: 01 June 2008
... deprived of marital happiness. A series of attempts to correct the
situation follow, all leading to a “milestone event” (in this case, a happy
new relationship after the death of her husband), which allows the charac-
ter to attain her goal. In picaresque novels, where the structure is episodic...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
... from Japanese, in which case the form in which their name is written on the publication in question has been retained. 2. In Some Prefer Nettles ( Tade kuu mushi ; 1929), for example, the dissatisfied husband of a failing marriage, Kaname, becomes fascinated by the dynamic between his aged...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and “the Peripheries of Capitalism” ( New York : Monthly Review ). 1986 The Roots of Otherness . Vol. 2 , Russia, 1905 – 07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth ( Houndmills, UK : Palgrave Macmillan ). Slánská Josefa 1969 Report on My Husband , translated by Pargeter Edith ( New York...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2000
...
murder case the love, the bed, and the wine. In reality, the husband had
slashed his estranged wife with a razor on the street; but without the addi-
tions Wilde would not have been able to contrast this crime of passion...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2020
... and breaking the stonewalling of thick-skulled wrongdoers. In a play reminis- cent of King Solomon s wise adjudication of the disputed baby (West and Idema 2010: 237 82), Judge Bao is faced with two wives fighting over a male child. Their husband has just been murdered, and the senior wife (the false mother...
View articletitled, Measuring the Stomach of a Gentleman with the Heart-Mind of a Pipsqueak: On the Ubiquity and Utility of Theory of Mind in Literature, Mostly
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
... uncomfortable with this moment from Auschwitz and After when
Pierre, the hearty husband of the Holocaust survivor Marie-Louise, acts
like the perfect trauma listener. As someone who has tried to experience
(deeply) the unreachable anguish of his wife’s sojourn in Auschwitz, Pierre
acknowledges Marie...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 719–751.
Published: 01 December 2005
... will contradict. The second anoma-
lous chapter, entitled ‘‘Akul’ka’s Husband is narrated in the novel’s second
part by a brutal peasant-convict whose account of his own crime Gorian-
chikov overhears one night when the two men lie in adjacent bunks in the
prison hospital. I will discuss each...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
... child; Rolf, her cuckolded husband, who watches in bitter silence; and Miriam, a midwife. The passage solemnizes the occasion while underlining the dangers that threaten the group—the Warden of England, Xan Lypiatt, that searches after the group who have challenged his dictatorial regime; Julian's...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 399–421.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and sends a letter asking about its whereabouts, Rosa
Litvinoff intercepts the letter, suspects what happened, and to protect her
husband, destroys both the letter and the Yiddish pages that she finds in a
strange handwriting in her husband’s drawer. She informs Gursky that her
husband is too ill...
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