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This paper advocates for a reading of John Scottus Eriugena's Carmina that situates his collection of poems within the genre of devotional poetry. Although the Carmina has recently benefited from scholarship on Eriugena's theology, typologies of his poems consistently overlook the significance of their theological themes. Most instead attribute more significance to their political themes, since Charles the Bald commissioned many of Eriugena's poems for special occasions at his royal court. This paper argues that a textual analysis which compares the significance of theological and political themes in the Carmina reveals several reasons why Eriugena's poems should be read as devotional poetry. First, it explains how typologies of Eriugena's poems overlook the significance of their theological themes by overstating the significance of Charles and his royal court. Then, it offers a close reading of three poems in the Carmina to show how Eriugena uses theological themes to frame political ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will discuss the possibility of attributing authorship to translations by carrying out a comparative stylometric analysis of an author's poems and their translations of other writers' works. The paper puts forward two hypotheses. Firstly, its aim is to test whether an author's poems and translations share stylistic patterns. Secondly, it will test whether these shared patterns can be used to attribute authorship of translations. The complete works of Antonio Colinas and Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, together with their respective translations of Giacomo Leopardi's Cantos, will be used. Based on these texts, we will build computational representations that correspond to the stylistic profiles of each author, using various style cues related to metrics, grammar, and lexicon. These representations will serve as input for the calculation of similarity. Its result will allow us to determine to what extent characteristics of an author's own verses remain in the translated poems and whether there is more closeness between the two translations or between each author's poetry and their translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three links between poetry and psychoanalysis are highlighted in this paper. These refer to the presence, in the clinical hour, of (i) poetic sentiment, (ii) poetic speech, and (iii) poetic specimen. Each is elucidated in detail and with the help of socio-clinical vignettes. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that, through the affirmative holding and partial unmasking of the instinctual-epistemic conflation in verse and free-association, both poetry and psychoanalysis seek to transform the private into shared, the hideous into elegant, and the unfathomable into accessible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In difficult times, people turn to poetry, reading, and writing for solace and peace. In emotionally intense and traumatic times, people use poetry to process and understand the lived eyepieces. The havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the emotional and psychological well-being of individuals all across the world. Poetry has emerged as a savior in these difficult times. A phenomenon, "lockdown poems", came into existence as individuals all across the globe processed and shared their lived experiences of isolation, pain, and suffering through poems. In the present paper, students of a management program process and share their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent lockdowns, and their community work experience. Poetry as a therapeutic and hope-building tool is discussed in the paper along with the original poems written by the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that two crucial episodes of Odysseus' life from Homer's Odyssey are resonant with Iliadic scenes highlighting the fail0d leadership of Hector, Agamemnon, and Achilles. These resonances invited ancient audiences of the Homeric poems to see moments of failure in Odysseus' leadership, and to criticize his desire for revenge and military glory at the end of the Odyssey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reexamines the literary influence of Nicander's Theriaca on the snake episode in Lucan's Bellum civile Book 9. Although often cited as an early zoological source, Nicander's contributions to the aesthetic and thematic aspects of Lucan's epic have gone largely overlooked. While his zoological knowledge drew mostly from intermediary sources such as Aemilius Macer, Lucan's use of venomous serpents as disruptive, destabilizing forces closely follows the poetic innovations of the Theriaca. Contrasting the unknowable, unpredictable threat of venomous creatures with horrifyingly graphic depictions of their bites, both authors construct poetic works that challenge and subvert contemporary literary and intellectual conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romantic-period studies have been keenly sensitive to the notion of mobility across borders, both in literal and figurative terms, investigating it in relation to issues of personal and national identity. This essay discusses Byron's various forms of border-crossing with specific reference to his Italian years, starting with the most immediate loco-geographic meaning of the term, that is, Byron's traversing the many frontiers that marked the Italian territory, partitioned in a plurality of states. The focus is on Byron's experience of the technologies of control which were set into place in the early nineteenth century, testified by his traveling papers and registered, often with a touch of humor, in his correspondence. Byron's musings on the practices and implications of the documentary control of mobility and identity spilled over, in a more serious key, into the concerns of his poetic output, notably in the lines of his 1819 lyric "To the Po." Translating the notion of borders and border-crossing onto the page, here Byron resisted the crystallizing of identity at work in the biopolitical domain by making the fluidity of the history-laden river Po the locus of his rebirth as transnational subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an esthetic revolution awakened a new interest in traditional poetry, which was considered the depositary of the Volksgeist and the most faithful representation of the national character. This paper raises the possibility of using the concept of author function to prove the high coherence with which German Hispanism, and in particular Ferdinand Wolf, considered the people of Spain as the authorial subject of Spanish romances. To do so, I will review the increasing interest in folk poetry since the 1750s contextualizing it within the new processes of the creation of national identities and Europe's special attraction to the Spanish case. Secondly, I will connect this revival to both new esthetic sensibilities that revolutionized the concept of authorship, such as expressive theories, and the creation of a collective subject (das Volk) as the origin of romances. I will analyze this collective subject as a potential author function. Finally, I will compare this against Wolf's thesis on the Spanish Romancero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The counterfeit works of Rafael Bolívar Coronado (1884–1924) represent a phenomenon with unusual repercussions on critical reception. This author managed to publish more than twelve volumes with false authorship and content, from "crónicas de Indias" to collections of poetry. This article presents a theoretical approach regarding literary falsification in general and highlights the concepts of lightness and multiplicity to propose an interpretation of the Bolívar Coronado case. This paper also deals with the artistic dimension of literary forgeries as creative works that use the same methods and strategies as fiction writing. The set of falsified works by this author can be interpreted as a conceptual proposal that questions the functioning of the literary field of his time. Likewise, his proposal can also be framed within the cultural criticism that the forgery tradition entails: it questions not only the difficult discernment between the concepts of truth and lies, but also the rigidity of some guardians of cultural institutions and the system of legitimation, awards, and literary reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The folkloric elements in Nikolai Nekrasov's "V derevne" ("In the Village," 1854) go beyond metric and stylistic affinities, and include, among others, the crows that flock as if from around the world; the well, the name Kasyanovna; and the final image of the black net. The paper will describe the dynamics of these elements' interaction within the text, suggesting that in the poem, the lyric author's engagement with the two genres of folk poetry, namely, the epic and the lament (plach, prichitanie), brings about a transformative experience for the lyric hero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that Nikolai Nekrasov's "V derevne" explores the limits of the Romantic view of lyricism as a socially isolated endeavor and attempts instead to use the lyric form to express social relationships. It contends that the poem works to conceptualize a social whole in which peasant and non-peasant are directly connected. Tragedy emerges as the mode of this connection: the lyric hero of the poem's first monologue and the lamenting peasant in the poem's second part each turn inward to bemoan circumstances which they feel they cannot change, including, in the case of the lyric hero, their own individual moods. This is the essence of Nekrasov's tragic pathos. As a folkloric omen, the poem's central image of gathering crows introduces a supernatural element to the poem which, rather than distinguishing a space separate from socio-economic realities, renders what might otherwise be considered natural an intentional effect. The poem's allusions through the crow omen to supernatural forces points to the actual social forces that structure the poem's world. The mysteriousness of these forces is thematized as a shared alienation, which is experienced even by the peasant in her presumably collective sphere as her mourning becomes a more modern sense of melancholia. Representing a collective experience of shared isolation, the poem attempts to embody the social totality which no single individual can grasp, in this way drawing on tragedy to offer a new form of lyric which does not ignore social divisions but rather expresses them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that Nikolai Nekrasov's poem is closely related to a topical discussion on the representation of peasants in literary texts that was unfolding in the criticism of 1850s. Critics such as Pavel Annenkov, who published his articles in The Contemporary edited by Nekrasov, insisted that the modern literature created by the westernized elites was incapable of correctly describing the social and psychological circumstances of the life of common people. His opponent Stepan Dudyshkin, to whom Nekrasov dedicated the first edition of his poem, replied that the whole idea of a perfectly correct representation of human life in a work of art is an illusion created by German philosophers, while a poet should rather influence the reader and evoke strong feelings. Analyzing the poem by Nekrasov, I demonstrate that he closely follows the advice of Dudyshkin, showing that such feelings as pity and sympathy can overcome social and cultural borders between the characters of his poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that "The lamentacion of a Gentilwoman vpon the death of her late deceased frend William Gruffith Gent." in The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578), attributed to Isabella Whitney, is a witty reimagining of one of the most popular Renaissance literary genres: the epitaph. The poet's grief revolves around the personal consequences of her secret lover's death, handling stock phrases and situational irony to strangely moving effect. While the poem's first-person speaker invokes the epitaph only to repudiate it, the three quatrains framing the text (written in the third person and therefore generally attributed to the volume's editor Thomas Proctor), pins down the mourning presence with the epitaphic "here." This paper suggests single authorship of the doubled text by showing how the poem posits personal lament as the site of interment located by the spatial demonstrative "here," to fashion a poetics of closure in which the voice of the languishing female poet becomes, through linguistic and textual splitting, a living epitaph for the dead beloved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore the connection between Ricoeur's account of the linguistic imagination and his preference for understanding revelation as a matter of the world of the text rather than of religious experience. To understand revelation as poetic is not to violate the purity and alterity of the phenomena but to remain open to the poetic richness of the world of the text, which creates new meaning and enables new ways of being. To make this argument, I will follow Ricoeur's method of detour-- return. The first detour--return will traverse Ricoeur's account of the productive imagination and consider how the notion of the "world of the text" can enrich our understanding of revelation as the revelation of a new world that we can inhabit. In the second detour--return, I will consider the role of critical distanciation in the preservation of discernment. An important part of this argument will be an examination of Ricoeur's account of the human being as a mixture of finite and infinite. I argue that this implies that human finitude is not utterly opposed to divine infinitude and that, by extension, human understanding is not always and only a contamination or limitation of the divine excess. In the final detour--return, I will follow Ricoeur's recommendation that a phenomenology of religion take the hermeneutical path of examining the texts in which religious phenomena come to expression. I will examine select passages from the Rig Veda to consider the possibilities for understanding revelation as a theo-poeisis -- viz., a divine creativity in which we participate. Ultimately, I hope to show that revelation involves the creation of a new world and the regeneration of human capability such that we can inhabit that world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses what gets lost in the literary translation process. Although "meaning" is ill-defined at best, it refers to how a message loses meaning in translations. Nuskha Hai Wafa", by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of Pakistan's best-ever classic anthologies, is selected as the Source Text (ST) and Target Text (TT) "The Way It Was Once "by Shoaib Hashmi (1999) is selected. The research investigates how translation exploits languages in relationships to handle potentially difficult conflictive situations in cross-cultural differences. Research has suggested that meaning loss in literary translation is the untranslatability of culturally particular vocabulary because language and culture are inextricably interwoven, cultural values and social standards are important considerations when translating poetry. Urdu and English have fundamentally different coding and writing systems, translating between the two languages inevitably results in meaning loss. However, this loss can be mitigated using various translation techniques, methods, and strategies. During the process of comparative analysis following questions have been tried to sort out: how do cultural disparities resist the process of poetic translation? how is meaning lots in the process of poetic translation? What strategies are used to translate the poetic expressions from Urdu to English? What causes loss of meaning in transmitting culturally specific items from one language to another? In this paper, the translator focused on the Urdu cultural domain of poetry concerning the loss of meaning. The research results verified the hypothesis that despite different tactics and strategies, the unavailability of culturally specific equivalent expressions causes hurdles in the process of translation, which causes the loss of meaning either due to omission, reduction, or addition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper establishes a transnational dialogue between different island spaces impacted by mass tourism and highlights poetry's contribution to the political reconfigurations of the Balearic and Caribbean islands. Notwithstanding these island spaces' different historical circumstances, it acknowledges that the tourist industry illustrates crucial historical continuities in each archipelago. The poetics analysed question the pro-growth ideology of the industry, the subservient role of their islands' political classes that disregard human well-being and environmental sustainability, and put the islands' survival at risk. This study identifies resemblances in Caribbean and Balearic island spaces' poetic responses to tourism and recognises local emancipatory alliances that not only bring to the surface shared forms of oppression, but also propose alternatives beyond the (hotel) chains of global capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the role of reflective practice in the medical field and investigates the factors that influence reflective writing. While reflective practice is widely acknowledged as crucial in medical education, there is a need to expand its conceptual boundaries and move beyond mere pedagogical exercises. The paper argues for the inclusion of creative writing, specifically poetry, as a form of reflective practice that allows medical students to effectively process their emotions and develop a more compassionate approach to patient care. By engaging in poetic expression, students can navigate ethical dilemmas, reflect on personal challenges, and cultivate empathy and appreciation for diverse perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]