Amazon & USA: The in-between place of AdalcindaCamarão’s poetic identity

The main objective of this paper is to investigate and report on the occurrence of foreignisms in the poems of AdalcindaCamarão, an Amazonian poet who lived for years in the United States. The research, in a wider sense, also seeks to reveal the possible motives underlying the author’s decision to write either mixing the two languages – Portuguese and English - or entirely in English. Other underlying purposes encompass the exploitation of the author's life and works aiming at identifying traces thatmight explain the blending of languages in her poems; discussing theories which approach cultural issues and seek to explain which phenomena are related to the events in her life at the in-between place [Braziland the United States]. The corpus of this study is constituted of a selectionof eight poems which deal with the themes of longing and homesickness, melancholy, love, religion, politics, history, and family. To carry out the research, the comparative method was used – a cognitive procedure that favors generalization or differentiation. As a conclusion, we emphasize that the poet gathered memories that, although dormant throughout her life, emerge, interrelate with the American life experience and manifest vividly in poems. The variety of themes approached in her poems and her personal experiencesin Brazil interlaced with those fromthe immersion into the American culture, reveal Adalcinda as a poet with a hybrid identity.

Writing in the New World

Over the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish American poetry and poetic theory experience a crucial moment of affirmation. Literary networks strengthen their circle of influence, and several authors, both creole and settlers, are able to promote their careers, further facilitated by the printing press. Books such as Miscelánea austral (Lima, 1602/1603) by Diego Dávalos y Figueroa, Grandeza mexicana (Mexico City, 1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena, and Parnaso antártico (Seville, 1608) by Diego Mexía contain a number of texts which lay the foundations for a new American poetics. They constitute a canon of New World authors who fashion themselves at the centre of a transatlantic exchange, both as followers and innovators of the peninsular literary tradition of the Renaissance. Framed within the rhetorical genre of “defences of poetry” and “defences of women”, these poets put forward an engaging critical representation of their own poetic identity.

Lingvistički i geografski prostori u pjesništvu Delimira Rešickog

The paper analyzes the expressions from the semantic field of water in the poetry written by Delimir Rešicki. The analysis is preceded by a review of the existing scientific approaches to space as a condition for linguistic structure from the perspectives of linguistics and phonostilistics. In the analytical part of the paper, we will try to use the listed and from the linguistic and phonetic perspectives analyzed terms from the semantic field of water to support the thesis on the conditionality of language on the living space and emphasize the integrity of the particular geographical area of Pannonia in the poetic identity of the text.

Ovid

Ovid offered Chaucer more than a repository of myths or a toolkit of poetic techniques: he facilitated ways of thinking about poetic identity, the nature of storytelling, and the permeability of texts. This chapter situates Chaucer as a dynamic partner in and active contributor to Ovidian intertextuality. The textual collisions, ethical calibrations, and reciprocal metamorphoses that characterize the intertextual relationship between these two poets distinguish Chaucer not simply as a conveyor of or apprentice to Ovid, but as a collaborator in an Ovidian poetic. Ovid configures for Chaucer the radical permeability of texts. Furthermore, Ovidian encounters in Chaucer’s poetry often coincide with the portrayal of books in a state of formation or contestation. This chapter focuses on both poets’ representations of temporality, the multiform Ovidianisms that have been attributed to Chaucer, and the pertinence of Ovid to a view of Chaucer as a self-conscious and intertextually adept vernacular poet.

‘Eall swylce þu cwæde’: Translation and Imitation in the Old English Judgement Day II

This essay posits a new explanation for the placement of a perplexing second-person address in the introduction to the Old English Judgement Day II. I argue that the poet deliberately highlights and problematizes the act of translation from Bede’s De die iudicii, providing the Old English speaker with a poetic identity of his own even as Bede’s authoritative voice is retained. Bede’s second-person address to Acca is therefore echoed with all its original intent, but is simultaneously directed at Bede himself. It is likely that this method finds its roots in an Augustinian mode of conversion narrative which has the polemical advantage of inserting its narrator into a broader Christian tradition. I also demonstrate that the approach to translation in Judgement Day II, while in many ways unique within the known corpus of Old English verse, finds stylistic parallels in Alfredian prose translations in which the translator imposes self-referential meaning upon the existing textual content.

Cowley

Chapter 4 challenges established interpretations of Cowley as a (crypto-)royalist with a revisionist reading of his Poems (1656), particularly the Pindarique Odes and Davideis, as his conscious attempt to shape a poetic identity in Cromwellian England. These texts can be shown to draw on absolutist and defactoist arguments for obeying the Protectorate. The chapter considers Cowley’s complex engagement with Hobbes, tempered by his cautious scepticism, and his more traditionally absolutist concern with the moral constraints that distinguish legitimate sovereignty from tyranny. Cowley shares with Davenant an interest in the artificial nature of sovereignty, and the psychological drivers of conflict between humans. But his high view of absolute obedience is deeply shaped by a neostoic emphasis on concepts of apatheia and constancy, scepticism and self-preservation.