Towards a theory of sporadic rhyming

A surprising amount of 20th-century (and earlier) English-language poetry employs rhyme, but not the rhyme we normally think of, which marks the end of the line in metrical poetry, but a kind of half-intentional half-accidental rhyme that can appear anywhere within the text. This type of rhyming, which I term ‘sporadic’ and distinguish from ‘systematic,’ has illuminating potential as it relies on, but also departs from traditional rhyme functions. As such, it asks for a new theorization. In this essay I elaborate the core characteristics of sporadic rhyming, and then exemplify and qualify these through a series of readings.

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Reconstructing Da’wah of Salafi in Shaikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali Works

Ilmu Dakwah Academic Journal for Homiletic Studies ◽

10.15575/idajhs.v13i2.7465 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 220-232

Author(s):

Dindin Solahudin

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

20Th Century ◽

The Core ◽

Core Characteristics

Salafism has developed into different interpretations and understandings. Every da’wah movement claims to follow Salafi way of its own interpretation. This study aims at portraying one of Salafi understandings and its Salafi da’wah. This research used literature review to reconstruct the model of first emerging da’wah according to Shaikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali, a 20th century da’wah thinker and practicioner. It used his works that are supposed to bear objective, original views, and understanding on Salafism and Salafi da’wah. The study shows that since the time of the prophet the core characteristics of Salafi da’wah are criticism, constructivism, and moderation. Salafisme telah berkembang menjadi beragam interpretasi dan pemahaman. Setiap gerakan dakwah mengklaim mengikuti cara Salafi dalam interpretasinya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan salah satu pemahaman Salafi dan dakwah Salafi. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis literatur untuk merekonstruksi model pertama kemunculan dakwah menurut Shaikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali, seorang pemikir dan praktisi dakwah abad ke-20. Ia menggunakan karya-karyanya yang seharusnya memiliki pandangan objektif, asli, dan pemahaman tentang Salafisme dan dakwah Salafi. Studi ini menunjukkan bahwa sejak masa nabi, karakteristik inti dari dakwah Salafi adalah kritis, konstruktivisme, dan moderasi.

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Poetry of East Africa: from the mid-20th till present

10.22455/978-5-9208-0629-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Natalya S. Frolova ◽

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

21St Century ◽

English Language ◽

Language Poetry ◽

East African ◽

African Countries ◽

The World ◽

Comprehensive Picture ◽

Literary Process ◽

First Time

The book deals with the development of English and Swahili poetry in three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It covers the period from the late 1960s to the present day. For the first time in the world African literary studies, the researcher created a comprehensive picture of the East African literary process of the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. The author analyzes two branches of modern East African poetry, such as the English-language poetry of Uganda and Kenya and the Swahili poetry of Kenya and Tanzania, by dwelling on the works of over 30 modern East African poets. An extensive poetic corpus is used to characterize its themes and artistic features. The poetry of modern East African authors is analyzed considering the culture, traditions, and realities of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

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Fartspottings: Reflections on “high seriousness” and poetic passings of wind

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research ◽

10.1515/humr.2009.018 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Nester

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

English Language ◽

American Poetry ◽

Language Poetry ◽

The Ideal

AbstractThe mention of farts in English language poetry has changed just as the role of poetry in our lives. This essay offers a survey of the uses and mentions of the word fart and the act of farting in poetry, centering around poet and critic Matthew Arnold's notion of “high seriousness” as the ideal place for poetry, as well as poet Robert Lowell's idea of the “raw and cooked” in 20th century American poetry. Questions posed: Can poetry and the mention of farts coexist? Can both anti-academic and academic poets' farts find their way to the page in a post-post-“high seriousness” age?

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THE TRADITION OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ELEGY AND J. BRODSKY’s POETRY

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology ◽

10.35634/2412-9534-2019-29-6-1030-1036 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 1030-1036

Author(s):

E.A. Markova

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Present Article ◽

20Th Century ◽

English Language ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Literary Tradition ◽

English Poetry ◽

Language Poetry ◽

Late 20Th Century ◽

The Usa

In the present article J. Brodsky’s poetry is analyzed in the context of a particular elegiac tradition associated with some key figures of English-language poetry of the mid-to-late 20th century. These are W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and S. Heaney. The aim of the article is to examine the continuity of the 20th century English poetry by the example of a sequence of dedication poems (elegies), in which each subsequent poem alludes to the previous one(s). The comparative method allows us not only to show the features of modern English-language poetry (for instance, the link between elegiac mood and reflection on the purpose of poetry), but also to analyze the influence of poets’ interpersonal contacts on their works. Special emphasis is put on J. Brodsky’s poetry as it may seem extraneous to the English-language tradition in question. The analysis of Brodsky’s personal and creative biography, his particular dedication poems and essays allows us to find the links between the Russian poet and the literary tradition of Great Britain, Ireland and the USA.

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Devices of comic in the work of the 20th century English-speaking Ugandan poets

Bulletin of the Kostroma state University ◽

10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-4-140-144 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 140-144

Author(s):

Natal'ya S. Frolova

Keyword(s):

East Africa ◽

20Th Century ◽

English Language ◽

Language Poetry ◽

East African ◽

Political Issues ◽

English Speaking ◽

The 1960S ◽

Made In

Poetry of the Ugandans are analysed in an article in the context of the use of devices of comic in the East African English-language poetry. The critical-realistic and enlightener tendencies that were eagerly apprehended by most East African authors in the 1960s have not allowed them going beyond the direct criticism of damning poetry to this day as well, although point-by-point attempts to use humour and satire when contemplating socio-political issues, do occur throughout the sixty-year existence of East Africa English-language poetry. The dilogy by Okot p’Bitek, Timothy Wangusa and Taban Lo Liyong are clear examples of such attempts made in Uganda literature. At the same time, the three authors use fundamentally different techniques of comic, when portraying modern reality, both purely African and universal human.

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Expatriate Kenyan poetry: Marjorie Phyllis Oludhe Macgoye and Stephen Derwent Partington

Bulletin of the Kostroma state University ◽

10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-4-172-178 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 172-178

Author(s):

Natal’ya S. Frolova

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

English Language ◽

African Literature ◽

Social Injustice ◽

Creative Work ◽

Language Poetry ◽

East African ◽

Interesting Phenomenon ◽

Poetic Work

English-language poetry in Kenya emerges and begins to develop in the 1970s, a decade later than the Ugandan one. It was at this time that the first truly brilliant examples of poetic work appeared – these are poems of Jared Angira and Micere Githae Mugo, who later became classics of Kenyan literature, whose work characterises the two main directions of Kenyan English-language poetry of the second half of the 20th century – critical-realistic and philosophical-mystical [Frolova: 75–90]. Studying the English-language poetry of Kenya draws attention to such an interesting phenomenon as the Kenyan poetry of expatriate writers. These are the creative work of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and the Stephen Partington, whose creative work cannot be called typical for East African literature. Both Macgoye and Partington are ethnic British, who had moved, each at own time, to Kenya and devoted themselves to literature, and, what is most important, called Kenya their homeland and themselves, Kenyans. In their poems, one can feel sincere love for the land, which has become their home, sympathy for Africans who suffer social injustice, and huge efforts to understand African reality through the eyes of a European.

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Diagnosing and Debunking Korean Pseudohistory

European Journal of Korean Studies ◽

10.33526/ejks.20191802.37 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 37-80

Author(s):

Andrew Logie

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

East Asia ◽

20Th Century ◽

Inner Mongolia ◽

Political Influence ◽

The Core ◽

Early State

In current day South Korea pseudohistory pertaining to early Korea and northern East Asia has reached epidemic proportions. Its advocates argue the early state of Chosŏn to have been an expansive empire centered on mainland geographical Manchuria. Through rationalizing interpretations of the traditional Hwan’ung- Tan’gun myth, they project back the supposed antiquity and pristine nature of this charter empire to the archaeological Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic straddling Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces of China. Despite these blatant spatial and temporal exaggerations, all but specialists of early Korea typically remain hesitant to explicitly label this conceptualization as “pseudohistory.” This is because advocates of ancient empire cast themselves as rationalist scholars and claim to have evidential arguments drawn from multiple textual sources and archaeology. They further wield an emotive polemic defaming the domestic academic establishment as being composed of national traitors bent only on maintaining a “colonial view of history.” The canon of counterevidence relied on by empire advocates is the accumulated product of 20th century revisionist and pseudo historiography, but to willing believers and non-experts, it can easily appear convincing and overwhelming. Combined with a postcolonial nationalist framing and situated against the ongoing historiography dispute with China, their conceptualization of a grand antiquity has gained bipartisan political influence with concrete ramifications for professional scholarship. This paper seeks to introduce and debunk the core, seemingly evidential, canon of arguments put forward by purveyors of Korean pseudohistory and to expose their polemics, situating the phenomenon in a broader diagnostic context of global pseudohistory and archaeology.

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