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...Brent Wood This essay takes an oral poetics approach to the analysis of the song lyrics of Robert Hunter as performed by the Grateful Dead from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Hunter's work is treated as an exemplary case for the study of the use of oral poetry within the contemporary electronic...

...Jolene Mathieson New media technologies have inaugurated the most recent and important shift in our understanding of word-image relations. While seminal studies of new media poetry ( Funkhouser 2012 ; Hayles 2006 , 2008 ) and its potentially ekphrastic properties ( Lindhé 2013 ) have been published...

...Elizabeth Bradburn Is reading poetry good for you? Drawing on evidence that reading poetry involves some of the same brain structures as those upon which human psychological well-being depends, this essay argues that George Herbert’s devotional lyrics, long understood as Christian meditations...

... have traveled from the politically inflected theory of earlier decades. In this article I place Levinas's writings alongside the critical prose of Brodsky, whose radical commitment to poetry—what Seamus Heaney called his “peremptory trust in words”—is set at a similar theoretical distance from the idea...

...Eyal Segal Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound . London: Routledge , 2007 . xi + 144 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E...

... “‘No Memory of Having Starred Atones for Later Disregard’: The Case for the Poetry of Robert Frost,” WordRustler , August 14 , wordrustler.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/the-case-for-the-poetry-of-robert-frost/#_edn9 . Fauconnier Gilles Turner Mark 2002 The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending...

...Eyal Segal White Gillian , Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 360 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds...

... Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry ( New York : Routledge ). Fort Bernadette 1996 “ Ekphrasis as Art Criticism: Diderot and Fragonard’s ‘Coresus and Callirhoe, ”’ in Wagner 1996 : 58 – 77 . Geldzhaler Henry 1988 Introduction , in Hockney...

...Eyal Segal Saunders Corinne , ed., A Companion to Medieval Poetry . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2010 . xvii + 683 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British Fiction. Berlin: de Gruyter...

...Michael Eskin Bakhtin's endorsement of literary prose—especially Dostoevsky's—on the grounds of its polyphony and his concomitant critique of poetry on the grounds of its allegedly monologic character have become commonplace in Bakhtin criticism. In this article, I reexamine this view...

...Harris Friedberg Foremost theorist of the New Criticism, W. K. Wimsatt, inherits from the Romantics the desire to differentiate poetry from prose on essentialist rather than formal grounds. In I. A. Richards, a new antithesis between the symbolic or referential use of language and its emotive use...

...Karen Alkalay-Gut In October 2001, Lawrence Ferlinghetti declared that from now on, poetry would be classified “as B.S. and A.S.—Before and After September 11.” Despite the exaggeration, it is clear that testimonial and elegiac elements of poetry and spoken or sung text have become more valued...

... of the essays that discuss literary texts are concerned with prose except for one essay on Hindi drama and two articles on poetry, one on Rajasthani (Western Indian) epics and one on Bengali poetry. The latter, by Blanka Knotková-Cˇ apková Metaphorization or Demystification of 550 Poetics Today 26:3...

...Scott MacDonald This article begins with an overview of the relationship of poetry and independent film. It proceeds to focus on three independent films that use the cinematic apparatus as a means of publishing poetry. Waterworx , a film by Canadian Rick Hancox, recycles Wallace Stevens's “A Clear...

... : 99 -110. The Wall Is Down: New Openings in the Study of Poetry Leslie Brisman Yale University, English Abstract  The question considered here is not what are the most interesting or most discussed recent movements in literary criticism, but what are the methodological innovations...

... pp. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020 References Dylan Bob . 2016 . The Lyrics: 1961–2012 . New York : Simon and Schuster . Ricks Christopher . 2003 . Dylan’s Vision of Sin . New York : HarperCollins . How Does Dylan s Poetry...

... of the book's length for a general discussion of aging, poetry and temporality. One should bear in mind that Universe is not a retrospective work of synthesis but rather a present and future-oriented project. The point of departure for the article's analysis will be the following passage from Northern Soul...

...Eric Lindstrom [email protected] Lucy Alford , Forms of Poetic Attention . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xiv + 365pp . Adam R. Rosenthal , Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2022...