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A substantial part of the core of H.D.'s classicism is undeniably Euripidean. In Hellenism, Gregory calls Euripides "architectonic" for H.D.'s writing and career. Despite H.D.'s fascination with Sappho and her experiments with other lyric poets, such as Meleager, her "flirtations" with Theocritus, Pausanias and Plato, it is Euripides' work she extensively reads, interprets, comments on, embeds, translates, and cites. Where her contemporaries, like...
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The Modernist quest for the renewal of poetry does not cease with World War Two. As Pound, Eliot, Williams and Crane conceive it, the new epic, provides the generic cradle for the inception of a new form. Hélène Aji summarizes certain theoretical precepts Pound received from Robert Browning's long poems. In his early Cantos, Pound adheres to Browning's dicta though later on his writing he begins to change as he starts questioning tradition and poetic...
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This analysis attempts to present the theoretical discussions of Plath's poetry within the general context of feminist criticism and writing by women and the problems faced by women as authors and poets. The book deals with the representation of the female body in Plath's poetry, by examining the views of such critics as Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Simone de Beauvoir, and specifically, how the body is represented in particular poems, like "Tulips"...
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In recent decades, Heliodora has received greater attention since it contains H.D.'s translation and poetic expansion of four Sapphic fragments. Along with her investigation of the Sapphic and lyric poems, H.D. is gradually creating her own archive, the unpublished Notes on Euripides, Pausanias and Greek Lyric Poets. H.D. has produced a range of poems, translation exercises from the Greek Anthology and poems that work palimpsestically within the context...
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In the very first sentence of "Spiegel, das Kätzchen" (1855), Gottfried Keller delineates what this story is about: economy, language, and psychology. The artistic tradition has endowed mirrors with the power to speak the truth and to reveal what otherwise falls in the blind spot of reason. Cats, on the other hand, with their experience as witches' sidekicks, decorated with boots and golden chains, are dressed to narrate and to represent obscure...
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As a modernist woman writer, H.D. could best be described as an advocate of experimentation and change. F. S. Flint, an early representative member of the movement of Imagism, discusses the ideological core of this generation that does not endorse a single form but demonstrates "a free spirit". Flint's remarks reveal that the aim of this new generation is to discover new forms of artistic expression. His views match equally well with H.D.'s heretic...
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The tale's emphasized novelty is manifold. Its action takes place not in a faraway land or mythical past but in Dresden, where Hoffmann moved in March 1813 to work as musical director for Joseph Seconda's opera company. He repopulates the Saxon capital with all kinds of fantastic personages who had been personae non grata during the Age of Enlightenment, rehabilitating fairies, witches and elemental spirits as voices of nature and poetry, and thereby...
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The question of whether Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet or not, has dominated and been at the centre of most critical studies of her work, ever since the publication of her final collection of poems. In this book, I will try to do more than show how similar her poetry is to that of other confessional poets, like Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton.
To achieve this purpose, I will present a very brief comparison of "Daddy", one of...
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When it comes to a subjective form of art, especially poetry, the answer to the above question is even more difficult. Some critics say that one needs to have had a somewhat similar experience in order to write about something as big as the Holocaust, for example; others say that poetry written by someone who belongs to a different generation than the actual survivor, is a mere recording of the facts and lacks the sparkle that will lift the poem to...
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Dostoevsky's unfinished early novel Netochka Nezvanova reflect the young author's view of literature as a kind of metaphorical enchantment. About three decades after E.T.A. Hoffmann invents the magic library of Archivist Lindhorst as a portal to the poetic realm in "Der goldne Topf" (1814), Fyodor Dostoevsky constructs another library, grounded in a far less phantasmic dimension but marked by an equally hypnotic propensity. In Dostoevsky's library,...
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This book will be dedicated to the examination of all the important manifestations of Plath's poetry: namely political, romantic, modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic, in order to move a step further away from traditional criticism and to prove that the personae Sylvia Plath created were nothing but masks, whose multiplicity are open to interpretation and this interpretation is left to the inclination of individual readers.
This poetry is so well...
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Euripides' Ion constitutes another demanding work in which H.D. processes and amplifies her task as poet and translator. This play signals a turning point in H.D.'s Euripidean studies since the text embeds a complex pattern of generic and mythic patterns which she infuses into the prose captions, that is, the preludes to the lyric and dramatic parts. In addition, it is her first work that receives critical attention following her first poetic period....
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