Menu Skip to primary content Search Drew Lichtenberg Dramaturg and Theater Critic Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests) Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and "The Bottom Translation," but there are worse fates than to be Kott’s amanuensis. -D...
Poetic criticism is not a program or a genre. It is an insinuation, a tendency. You'll know it when it leaves you dumbstruckI hear, and i find myself tongue-tied." Michel Chaouli’s Something Speaks to Me, in which the Iranian-born scholar of German literature and philosophy argues for what he calls "poetic criticism," starts with a classroom "mishap." While teaching Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925), Chaouli read out loud a passage he had chosen "because it seemed especially rich." And then, he ...
By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart. Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque he...
"But to learn to dye is better than to study the ways of dying."– Sir Thomas BrowneWritingHe stalks with a lens,Short hair and floral dresses:Red,Deep red. The lens is a recollection,Occurring at a wooden desk,With a typewriter, Tapped by fingers, clothed in black leather;Dead skin masks for desperate hands.No prints.Writing violence.The lens is a recollection, Of short hair and floral dresses:All unaware.He wished to map rouge cartogra...
"But to learn to dye is better than to study the ways of dying."– Sir Thomas BrowneWritingHe stalks with a lens,Short hair and floral dresses:Red,Deep red. The lens is a recollection,Occurring at a wooden desk,With a typewriter, Tapped by fingers, clothed in black leather;Dead skin masks for desperate hands.No prints.Writing violence.The lens is a recollection, Of short hair and floral dresses:All unaware.He wished to map rouge cartogra...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Story of Cruel Frederick (thing) See all of The Story of Cruel Frederick, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Thu Aug 17 2000 at 0:56:09 The first story in Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. This Frederick! this Frederick! A naughty, wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten...
Clip source: Victorian%20Poetry%20%28Spring%202019%29%3A%20Digital%20Timeline%20%7C%20COVE Skip to main contenthttps://editions.covecollective.org/COVEAccess and Info for Institutional SubscribersMenu Victorian Poetry (Spring 2019): Digital Timeline Created by Joshua King on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 12:17 Part of Group:Victorian Poetry Spring 2019 Students will each create one entry related to their rare-item projects. Note to students: please see the "Digit...
Initial S: A Monk Praying in the Water, Getty Center. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.We do not read the Bible as it is meant to be read. Theology always risks leading us astray by elaborating its own discourse, with the biblical texts merely as a point of departure. The presence of poetry in the Bible is the key to a more pertinent and more faithful reading.There are many poems found in the Bible. We know this, vaguely and without giving it too much thought, but shouldn’t we be rather a...
One of his friends described Dr. Percy Withers (1867-1945), an English physician and failed poet, as having a "relish for human nature," an observation confirmed by the varied assortment of writers he befriended, including Max Beerbohm, Charles Doughty, Robert Bridges, Walter de la Mare, William Butler Yeats, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon and E.M. Forster. Most remarkably, he made friends with the famously reserved A.E. Housman, who even permitted Withers to photograph him. That portrait ...
The Harrisons’ Art of Generosity: Poetics and EcologyMonica ManolescuThis article offers a literary perspective on Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison’s discourses, texts, stories and voices, and the ways in which they act in performative ways, creating an art of doing things with words. I would like to argue that this performativity is the expression of a strong commitment to the present moment that Camus qualified as "generosity" and that defines the models of authorship, agency, art-m...
HomeMovie ListsBest Films About Poets, Ranked Best Films About Poets, Ranked By Erik Nielsen Published 5 days ago The life of a poet is not inherently cinematic, but these ten films find beauty in lives lived between the pages, and make them worthwhile. Amazon Studios Artistic pursuits confined to the page are never an easy or inherently cinematic activity to portray on screen. Given the difficult task of portraying the solitary act of writing, films about poetry lend th...
Could you define imagery or tell us the types that occur in poetry and literature? The very core of storytelling is organic imagery. When we work to make a film or TV show or anything else, the visuals we put on the screen need to represent the core themes and beats of the story. This appeals to the audience's sense of humanity. These ideas were not created by us filmmakers. They date back to the first human writing, poetry, and literature. They were brought about by finding...
https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/what-is-life-writing-and-why-does-it-matter/Oxford University Press has recently launched its new seven-volume Oxford History of Life-Writing in English. Three of the volumes are already in print, with the latest being my own, which covers the period from 1945 to the present day. This is the first time a history of life-writing on anything like this scale has been published, which begs the question—what is life-writing, and why does it matter?Over the last few dec...
How many books were there in the golden age of ancient Greece? What percentage of the population could read them? We have only shreds of information preserved by chance, blades of grass that float along on the breeze but don’t allow us to calculate the size of the meadow from which they came. And most of them refer to an exceptional place, the city of Athens. The rest remains in shadow.Seeking traces of this invisible literacy, we turn to images of readers represented in ceramic paintings. Fr...
A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought (idea) See all of A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by hamster bong (3.7 d) Rep: 20 ( +27 / -7 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jul 24 2000 at 22:00:38 a broken heart is more beautiful to me and you, as a weeping mess, i find it drawing they called it gorgeous tragedy when the brightness left your eyes and the glow about your person slipped away still i could no...
★★★★★Reflecting on the enchantments that nature casts on people, The Sandpiper’s Spell is a beautiful poetic mosaic.Tom Pearson’s The Sandpiper’s Spell contains poems that meditate on nature, life, death, and memory, using language in startling and dazzling ways.Organized in seven parts, each beginning with a piece of "The Sandpiper’s Spell," the poems revolve around imagery borrowed from beaches, waterways, and birds in flight and at rest. The first poem in the series finds meaning in the ab...
Originally titled: "Christianity has lost its traditional connection to the arts," says Dana Gioia. It’s forgotten "that beauty is the most direct and potent way to communicate the divine"IWhen I became a man, I put away childish things.—St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13Most Christians misunderstand the relationship of poetry to their faith. They consider it an admirable but minor aspect of religious practice—elegant verbal decoration in honor of the divine. They recognize poetry’s place in worship....
The Sycamore Tree is the 'symbol of life' ? Investigate that. -zas Jun 2022 a white leather sofa (poetry) See all of a white leather sofa, no other writeups in this node. (poetry) by lostcauser (2 hr) Rep: 5 ( +5 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Jun 09 2022 at 17:42:45 he walks away sits down on the sofa the white leather sofa I never wanted to buy I go outside and I don’t slam the door I stand in the yard under the sycamore the symbol of life he was a senior and I was a sophomore...
RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...
TEHRAN – "Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative" by Catalan writer Ignasi Ribó has been published in Persian. Siahrud is the publisher of the book translated by Vafa Miah. This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analyz...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 glass marble meditation (place) See all of glass marble meditation, no other writeups in this node. (place) by raincomplex Mon Nov 16 2020 at 1:34:26 imagine you are floating freely in space, bodiless. now imagine a sphere around you, a large opaque bubble. this is your mind and body. it's a metaphor. the upper part of the inside surface is covered with sense impressions of your human body and the world: what you can hear and see...
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Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Lantern (idea) See all of Lantern, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by m_turner Sun Oct 29 2000 at 21:04:27 A five line poem similar to that of a lune. It has a word count of 1,3,5,3,1. The name of the form is that of the shape of the poem. If you say life is easy, then you must not have known love author unknown I like it! Aristotle's lantern Lune Lantern Night Pinocchio: Chapter 21 Haddon Hal...
