Paradoxes Of Poetry Research Articles

Paradox in Fadwa Touqan’s Divan “July and the Other Thing” (Tˈamuz walʃɑiʔ alˈʔɑxar)

The study presents a critical analysis of the use of paradox in Fadwa Touqan's collection “July and the Other Thing" (tˈamuz walʃɑiʔ alˈʔɑxar). It reveals that the poet willfully employs paradoxes in the collection, including the paradox in the title, which reflects her unique vision. Most of the poems in the collection incorporate various forms of paradox, such as verbal, romantic, dramatic, and motor behaviour paradoxes. The study explores the relationship between the paradox in the title and the other poems, focusing on the dialectic relationship between life and death. The study contributes to the limited body of Arab critical literature dedicated to the theory and practice of paradox in poetry, mainly in the context of Fadwa Touqan's works. Touqan, a prominent Arab poet, constantly used irony as a distinct stylistic feature in her poetry, particularly in "July and the Other Thing".

Poetry, Paradox and the Psalms

This paper considers the use of paradox in poetry generally, before going on to look specifically at how it is used in the Book of Psalms and in poetry relating to or influenced by the Psalms. It focusses particularly on the historical influence that the Psalms had on Scottish writers, paradox in twentieth-century Scottish poetry, and how the poets of today use paradox in work that references or that to some extent is inspired by the Psalms.

Blind windows: Leopardi with Rothko

This is why the idyll is the greatest paradox in poetry, just as tragic painting is the greatest paradox in painting. (Lukacs [1910] 2010, 124)This essay examines the way in which an Italian poem o...

The Paradox in Writing on Religion

Paradox, a subject that has intrigued philosophers and scientists since ancient times, not long ago also captured the attention of many literary critics and historians of religion. A key analytic term among the old New Critics, paradox—along with irony and ambiguity—was for decades taken as central to poetic language, the force of which was understood to derive from the play of multiple, often contradictory meanings. In history of religions, a concept of paradox was essential in the monumental work of Mircea Eliade, who repeatedly pointed to the power of conjoined opposites in myth. To many scholars in both fields, these paradoxes of poetry and myth have by now become passe—taken for granted, perhaps, but no longer topics for further exploration. They gain new significance, however, with the increasing interest in the critical study of academic writing over the last few years. For despite the hard-minded academic stance found in much contemporary religio-historical writing, the paradoxes familiar from religion and literature still often come into play, indeed, sometimes to explore striking contradictions that are posed in the fashion of paradoxes from science.