How might we move beyond the Europhone term "vernacular" to frame non-Europhone literatures and literary histories?
Amichai’s poetry articulates an implicit theory of translation as the intertextual practice of a historical agent, an implicit theory that is poised to provide a new perspective on the critical discourse of contemporary translation studies.
Wittgenstein’s theory of language provides a good methodology for making sense of maʿna in Classical Arabic.
Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. What follows is an excerpt from the Introduction.
A maximalist take on a now commonplace idea that demands the equally commonplace response, “what relationship exists between the texts and the writer?” And the more immediate question, “who, then, do the texts serve?” The answer to these questions is at the core of the struggle to develop a documentary poetics adequate to our new and increasingly textual world.
As they share the belief that it is referential language that, in its predictable and transparent patterns, causes death of the mind and rebroadcasts, on the level of writing, the rules of commodity fetishism, Language poets set out to create an alternative linguistic discourse that aims to undermine the instrumental use of language.
McLaughlin examines the relationship between poetry and philosophy in light of Immanuel Kant's theory of force.
English-Language Resources for Arabic Poetics
Arabic poetics—the theories of criticism of poetry and eloquence in classical (mediaeval) Arabic scholarship—has a great deal to offer the contemporary reader and critic.
Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: A Brief and Late Review
One of the major difficulties of being a U.S.-based scholar working in Filipino is having access to texts that are only distributed in the Philippines. So it was with enormous joy that I discovered J. Neil Garcia’s Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics available digitally on Amazon.
Wannabe Deleted
What does it take before Wikipedia decides to delete someone?