Anagram Research Articles

El sueño de los mártires . Meditaciones sobre una guerra actual

Reseña sobre el libro de Dardo Scavino sobre el fenómeno de la guerra contra el terrorismo y el terrorismo mismo, ganador del 46º Premio Anagrama de Ensayo en 2018.

Meditation-focused attention with the MBAS and solving anagrams.

Meditation-focused attention with the MBAS and solving anagrams.

‘Honor Est a Nilo’: The Origins of an Anagram for ‘Horatio Nelson’

‘Honor Est a Nilo’: The Origins of an Anagram for ‘Horatio Nelson’

Hortense is No Esther: Dickens' Anagrams

Hortense is No Esther: Dickens' Anagrams

The Poem as Anagram: A Brief Introduction to the Work of Vincenz Serrano

The Poem as Anagram: A Brief Introduction to the Work of Vincenz Serrano

<i>Cum latranti/fraganti nomine</i>: una posible lectura de Plauto <i>Casina</i> 31-34

El titulo de la comedia transmitida unanimemente como Casina ha sido discutido por los mas importantes criticos plautinos, en especial a partir de los enigmaticos versos 31-34, donde se consigna una traduccion del titulo del original griego distinta de la que resultara favorecida por la tradicion (Sortientes) y, ademas, se atribuye caracter �ladrador� (latranti) a un nombre que, por su etimologia, se asocia con una planta aromatica y poco parece tener que ver con perros. Nuestro trabajo intenta contribuir al debate, formulando la hipotesis de que el nombre Casina se explica como un anagrama de las palabras casia y canis, que remiten a los campos semanticos de los olores y de los animales respectivamente, a la vez que se vinculan a lo largo de la comedia con dos personajes femeninos: la inasible e ideal Casina y la demasiado asible y real Cleostrata. Sustentando la autenticidad del titulo transmitido por los manuscritos, entendemos que este pasaje del prologo contiene una clave destinada a iluminar el problema central planteado por la comedia: el reemplazo de la amante complaciente por la matrona, y la ridiculizacion y el consecuente escarmiento del viejo.

Some Lovely Scrubbing

Maurice Sc?ve's life reads like side-plot in Paul Auster novel. Shortly after completing humanistic biblical epic of three thou sand alexandrines, he disappeared in plague in the mid-sixteenth century; Joyce's French translators rediscovered his works in the 1920s. These works comprise an anonymous translation of popular Spanish romance novel, the orchestration of elaborate court pag eantry, miscellaneous writings attributed to his friends (perhaps), and the first Petrarchan canzoniere to be written in French, the 449 stanza D?lie. In Emblems of Desire, Richard Sieburth translates eighty eight stanzas from throughout the larger work. They appear along side woodcut illustrations that originally accompanied the poems. Given Sc?ve's love of hoax (the most solid fact of his biography is an anecdote about uncovering the tomb of Petrarch's Laura) and back-cover blurb by Auster himself hailing this edition as a miracle of literary invention, conspiracy-minded reader might seek ana grams and errant contemporary allusions that expose the volume as fake. I have since confirmed Sc?ve's existence as literary fact but still defend my suspicion: D?lie seems as singular as make-believe. Sc?ve's project resembles Petrarch's and would be good prompt for creative writing class: fall in love with someone who rejects you, then write hundreds of poems charting your passion's tor ments and trills. Unlike Petrarch and Dante, though, Sc?ve, the humanist, has no hope for reunion in the afterlife. As result, the beloved's bodily absence cannot instruct him in divine pleasures. If the Italian poets construct spiraling ascents, Sc?ve flattens widen ing patch in field. Some mornings, the stalks have grown back and he writes like someone in Dante's Hell: time exists with variations that resemble development, but, in the end, it only accumulates. The scythe Sc?ve swings strikes in ten-line dizains (rhymes with dizzying). Each of these stanzas considers an aspect of his obses

Teaching Vocabulary through Anagram

Teaching Vocabulary through Anagram

Wordplay in Vergil and Claudian1

This paper looks at two examples of anagrammatic wordplay in Vergil and Claudian, and argues that in each case the poet carefully signals the presence of the anagram to the reader.

Lingüística y lenguaje literario

This article deals with some revelant aspects of the linguistics of literature (or 'linguistics of writing') such as it has been discussed during the last two decades as a result of the Jakobsonian metapoetics postulate. Two contributions are emphasized, both previous to the famous Congress of Indiana but divulged nevertheless a few years later: the Saussure's anagrams and the peircean iconic theory.

Elemental Anagrams Revisited

The reader is invited to solve a dozen anagrams in which plausible names of people are actually scrambled names of elements.

Anagram; Summer Song; Waylaid Letters; A Park in Kiev; Myths about Sunflowers

Anagram; Summer Song; Waylaid Letters; A Park in Kiev; Myths about Sunflowers

Anagrams and Recursion

Anagrams and Recursion

How Many Saussures? The question of the anagrams

How Many Saussures? The question of the anagrams

Anagram Solving Methods: The Expected and the Observed

Anagram Solving Methods: The Expected and the Observed

The Lekythion and the Anagram of Frogs 1203

The Lekythion and the Anagram of Frogs 1203

Solving words as anagrams: II. A clarification.

Solving words as anagrams: II. A clarification.

Anagram solving under conditions of letter order randomization.

Anagram solving under conditions of letter order randomization.

George Herbert's "Anagram": A Reply to Professor Leiter

George Herbert's "Anagram": A Reply to Professor Leiter

Donne's "The Anagram": Sources and Analogues

Donne's "The Anagram": Sources and Analogues