All things poetic and all things verse.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 days, 2 hours ago
Pese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La controversia judía y judeoconversa en los debates del Cancionero de Baena in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 days, 2 hours ago
Los debates literarios son prácticamente consustanciales e intrínsecos a la existencia de la literatura en cualquier lengua y en cualquier cultura, en tanto que «en último término, remiten a condicionamientos pragmáticos humanos» (Chas Aguión 2002 : 59). Por lo que respecta a su inserción en la cultura de la Edad Media hispánica, hay un aspecto i…[Read more]
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Nasrin Askari deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 17. Persian Literary Criticism in India: Khān-i Ārzū’s Critique of Ḥazīn’s Poetry in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when a new style of Persian poetry was developing in the Persianate world, several erudite literary critics appeared in India, whose meticulous critiques of Persian poetry was unprecedented in the long history of Persian literature. A close study of the works produced by these critics reveals their vast…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited From Nima Yushij to Sohrab Sepehri in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
In the first half of the 20th century, Nima developed an early form of modern Persian poetry with unequal lengths of lines and a different notion of rhyme. Nima developed a poetic form that was not symmetrical in its shape and music and was (partially) free from restrictions of rhyme and meter. At the same time Nima was theorizing a modern…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited How Stevens Uses the Grammar of Is in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Wallace Stevens and philosophy of language
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited Introduction: Logic and Literary Form in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Although literature and logic share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts, they have typically been seen to occupy separate disciplinary spheres. Declaring a subfield in literary studies-logic and literature-this introduction outlines various connections between literary formalism and formal logic. It surveys historical…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited “Suppose This Was the Root of Everything”: Stevens and the Imperative to Suppose in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Wallace Stevens and philosophy of language
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited Thomas Hardy’s Timing: Poems and Clocks in Late Nineteenth-Century England in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Thomas Hardy and theory of time
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited Pound Sign in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
What can one, seemingly insignificant figure–possibly punctuation mark, possibly ideogram, possibly something else entirely–demonstrate about Ezra Pound’s figurative practice? #, which draws power from associations with Mencius’s well-field system and the Chinese character ching, becomes an emblem for a recurring quodlibet in The Cantos: how for…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited Absolutism, Relativism, Atomism: The “small theories” of T.S. Eliot in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Philosophy began the 1890s rooted firmly in the monistic absolutism of F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart; it ended the decade deracinated into the pluralistic atomism espoused by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. If this intellectual sea change can be conceived as analytic and logical philosophies inventing their wheel, then T.S. Eliot re-invented…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Blevins deposited Setting The Waste Land in Order in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Are T. S. Eliot’s notes on The Waste Land a scholarly resource or a literary hoax? This oft-repeated question gets to the heart of the poem, which thrives on its allusions, whether seriously or cynically. However, scholars have largely passed over the notes’ (and the poem’s) numberings, despite their complexity and superabundance—a panoply of quan…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This is a poem about fire.
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or “mejora” is always contingent…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Professor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Several of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited ‘We’ the people—Collective lyric self in twenty-first-century poetry in the group Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
Questions of positionality permeate 21st-century poetics—and seem to come to a head around the intentional inclusion/exclusion of the reader in the speaker’s pronoun of choice, especially when the pronoun in question is “we.” This essay contrasts the fragmented lyric self of modernism with current approaches to a lyric “we” and puts three conte…[Read more]
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