Prose Poetry Research Articles

Slovenian Poet and Austrian Writer: Maja Haderlap’s «Hybrid» Identity and Overcoming Post-Memory Trauma

The cоntemporary literature of the Slovene minority living in Austrian Carinthia is a special phenomenon that combines national and multicultural components, as well as bilingualism. A striking example of this is the work of M. Haderlap (b. 1961), who writes poetry in Slovenian and prose in German. Her German-language novel «Engel des Vergessens» («Angel pozabe», 2011) is about the collective trauma of the past experienced by the Slovenian population who participated in the anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War (physical extermination and deportation to concentration camps), had a wide resonance in the European German-speaking sociocultural space. The plot is based on the personal story of the writer’s grandmother and father, who went through the Gestapo and Ravensbrück. One of the ways to express his attitude to a tragic topic and at the same time overcome the consequences of the post-memory mechanism was the choice of language for the author. By creating a novel in the language of the national majority on a topic that is «inconvenient» for its speakers and painful for the national minority, Haderlap, firstly, makes an attempt to distance himself from personal experiences, and secondly, to attract the attention of the general Austrian public to historical injustice, to evoke fellow citizens an impulse to repentance. The hybrid identity of the writer, who perceives her bilingualism as an undeniable advantage of creative self-expression, reflects the real trends in the literary development of Europe: the monolingual paradigm is being replaced by a focus on poly-and heteroglossia.

Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße : Ecological Thinking and the Implicated Subject

abstract: Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße ( The Parallel Street , 1962) is an understudied docufiction from an early moment in the Young German Cinema. It hybridizes industrial film techniques, cross-sectional montage in particular, with experimental prose poetry to achieve an ecological mode of storytelling. These aesthetic strategies make a network of global extraction and exchange sensuously cognizable, facilitating the viewer's self-recognition as an implicated subject. In an early instance of multidirectional memory (Rothberg), representations of particular nodes in this network are shown to take up the project of Vergangenheitsbewältigung and unite it with postcolonial concerns around environmental degradation and exploitation throughout the Global South.

Review of Nima’s Sustainable Innovations

In about half a century, the effect, innovation, wonder and the great unprecedented changes of prose poetry in the field of poetry have brought about many researches and investigations. But all of these are in selective form. Its selectivity is the main issue that needs more investigation. This has become the valued, said and unsaid version of prose poetry. Exporting on the realization of suggestions and changes of prose poetry, and in order to find out the undiscovered capacities of Persian through Neema is the glory of Persian poetry. In this investigation, Neema's innovations have been analyzed in descriptive form. The data and information for this ‌research have been collected via libraries.

Getting in Touch with Troy in Fifteenth-Century France: The First Prose Version of the Roman de Troie in the Manuscript F°26 of the Abbey of Maredsous

Abstract This paper considers how the codex as a medium, specifically via its illustration and layout, translates into material forms the literary and textual choices of the texts it transmits in order to make its version of the Troy story tangible, and thus intelligible for its medieval readers. It takes as an example the first prose version of the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure, probably composed in the last quarter of the thirteenthcentury in Frankish Greece, and focuses more specifically on a late manuscript of Prose 1, recently rediscovered, the manuscript F°26 from the Abbey of Maredsous (Belgium), made almost two centuries later, c. 1450, in the Burgundian Netherlands. This paper argues that this codex, in its specific context of production and within its textual and visual traditions, allow its audience to come into contact with the long-lost city of Troy, and the narrative that evokes it.

The Hand that Touched Troy: Using Maniculae in Latin and French Manuscripts (Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie, Guido delle Colonne’s Historia and their Respective Prose Versions)

Abstract In Auch, BM, 10, more than 120 maniculae, or manicules, touch the text of the Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne with their short or disproportionately long fingers. These maniculae are accompanied by brackets, notae, various remarks. They testify to an active reading of the work, which brushes against the writing as closely as possible, signalling and selecting passages, sometimes simply pointing out, sometimes recopying, summarizing, or commenting. This practice, which was by no means specific to the Trojan material, is far more apparent in manuscripts of the Latin work compared to those of its French source (Benoît de Sainte-Maure) and in the French prose versions that stem directly from it. By examining manuscripts of both the Latin and French traditions, and while also taking into account the methodological biases that this approach implies, this article interprets the presence of reading marks (maniculae, underlining, notes) in Trojan texts. I retrace various types of reading, which include character-focused, historical, moral or rhetorical modes of reading. I demonstrate that specific readerly profiles emerge, and more specifically, that such marks of reading turn out to be topical teaching tools or otherwise present a more subjective interaction with the textual matter. In short, I examine how these hands touching the words might inform our understanding of the reception of Troy during the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

Poems on Mār Qūryāqōs by ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā

Abstract This article examines poems dedicated to the martyr Qūryāqōs by the eminent East Syriac poet and patriarch ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā (d. 1570). For the first time the peculiarities of these works and their place in the development of Syriac poetry are examined. Additionally, a critical edition and translation of one of the poems, the turgāmā, is given, based on available manuscripts. A special place in the article is given to the correlation of the poetic texts under consideration with the prose versions of the hagiography of this martyr, which was used as a source by ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā.

ACCENTUATING STYLISTIC FEATURES IN THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE OF HIKAYAT GUL BAKAWALI

This article describes stylistic features found in Hikayat Gul Bakawali, an ancient love tale of Indian origin translated into Classical Malay in 1875 from an Urdu prose version composed by Nihal Chand Lahori entitled, “Mazhab-e ‘Ishq, urf Gul-e Bakawali,” (The Religion of Love, or the Rose of Bakawali), published in Calcutta in 1804. Although the original tale stems from within the Hindu world view, the Urdu version of 1804 firmly situates the tale within an Islamic framework. Under study is the first known Malay translation by Munsyi Syaikh Muhammad Ali bin Ghulam Husain al-Hindi, a literary scholar of Indian origin living perhaps in one of the cultural centres of the Malay peninsula, who acquired a fine mastery of Classical Malay literature and translated several religious and linguistic texts directly from Arabic as well. The thrust of the discussion is upon the translation and analysis of specific passages, presented successively with emphasis on certain themes or rhetorical strategies. The power of binary oppositions is emphasized on all levels, from that of the description of the characters, to oppositions on the semantic level in many passages. Of interest is the character development of the hero, a human prince in love with the Fairy Princess Puteri Bakawli. Analysed are the hero’s use of language in describing himself to attract the empathy and assistance of his addressees, as well as the narrator’s description of the hero’s bravery and persistence as a faithful lover never to give up on in his quests.

Festmusik mit persönlicher Note

Abstract Festa teatrali were an established music-theatrical means of celebrating courtly festivities around the middle of the 18th century when Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth began to adopt this form at her court. After a brief description of the general development of the Festa teatrale in the context of courtly festive culture, the successive appropriation and special organisation of the Feste teatrali under the margravine, who herself provided the textual basis for two works, will be discussed. The status of the printed French prose version will be analysed in this context. It is not a translation of the Italian text set to music, as was usual with bilingual printed libretti, but a version that preceded it in the creation process. The article clarifies to what extent this version can claim its own aesthetic value, how it can be categorised in literary genre traditions, and how Wilhelmine von Bayreuth positions herself as an author.

The Ice Is Melting

ABSTRACT In The Ice is Melting, Leigh Lyndon, Psy.D., uses three personal vignettes to illustrate various uses of an object, the process of internalizing an other, and how addiction can be used to circumvent the need for an other. Using auto theoretical prose poetry to pull the reader into her experiences, she allows the reader, thusly, to encounter - rather than be told – her ideas about the ways in which bodies are inscribed not only by our earliest relationships but by the social as well. She describes in detail several ways that she attempted to manage her anxiety about having to be in these different relationships (to self, to the other, to culture). By using auto-theory, Lyndon is implicitly asking the reader to attend to their own sources of understanding and is troubling our ideas of what it is “to know.”

Aristov, V. (2023). Idem-forma: The search of ‘identity in the dissimilar’ in literature and other arts. Moscow, St. Petersburg: Tsent gumanitarnykh initsiativ. (In Russ.)

The central notion in Vladimir Aristov’s book is Idem-forma, advanced by the author for the analysis of literary similarities that are not covered by the traditional comparative terms, e. g., contacts or typology. A physicist and a poet, Aristov undertakes the task of scholarly investigation in the style of an essay. The first three of twelve chapters in his book treat the problem theoretically in a broad context of the modern mind. Nine chapters deal with the cases of the ‘identity in the dissimilar,’ suggesting hypotheses of similarity in poetry, prose, and interdisciplinary affinities. The major cases are those where the similarity, no matter how much open to comparative argumentation, allows for viewing two works in a new light, or establishing a plausible typological parallel between them, as it is done for the novels by A. Platonov and W. Faulkner, M. Bulgakov and T. Mann. Idem-forma is an attempt to attract attention to those literary and artistic events that demand an attentive eye towards similar syntactic and rhythmic patterns in poetry, or plots and characters in prose which do not lie on the surface to be related or explained but are supposed to interact in the domain of world literature.

A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College

This article is a transcultural teacher’s critical autoethnography of entangled privilege and care in a university residential college. Using prose poetry as poetic inquiry, I write the entanglements of institutional privilege and love’s care in a college. I write my pedagogical subjectivity evocatively, where I am interdependent with my creative ecologies of humans and environment. In this article, I first discuss transculturality, creative ecologies, and pedagogical lived experience that inform a poetic inquiry method. I then offer a series of critical autoethnographic prose poems as inquiry into transcultural pedagogy in the college, evoking interconnected privilege and care in the college.

Flash fiction as a distinct literary form: some thoughts on time, space, and context

ABSTRACT This article combines a craft-focused approach with a stylistics perspective to consider the ways in which flash fiction may be said to operate as a unique literary form. In the opening section flash fiction is defined in relation to what are usually seen as its two closest literary companions: prose poetry and the short story. This is followed by an introduction to the linguistic phenomenon known as deixis, and to related concepts from the field of Narratology. These ideas are subsequently illustrated and explored through the close analysis of several short texts and used to uncover what might be considered the defining features of the form. The earlier taxonomic approach of William Nelles is also evaluated in the light of more recent creative practice. The article concludes by arguing that the mobilisation of a story world is a necessary requirement for a text to be classified as flash fiction, by highlighting the importance of deft manipulation of deictic elements, and finally by suggesting that the unique communicative context evoked by flash fiction has significant implications for its interpretation.

Exploring the Literary Genres of Modern Arabic Prose: An Introduction

Modern Arabic prose has evolved significantly since the 19th century, reflecting the socio-political transformations of the Arab world. As traditional forms gave way to new genres during the Nahda (Arab Renaissance), Arabic literature embraced modernity while addressing issues such as colonialism, identity, and societal change. Key genres include the novel, which rose as a powerful medium for social realism and psychological exploration; the short story, known for its brevity and sharp social commentary; and autobiography, often intertwining personal narratives with political critique. Additionally, essays have been instrumental in shaping intellectual discourse, while prose poetry and magical realism have pushed the boundaries of literary expression, blending personal reflection with allegorical critiques of politics and culture. This introduction highlights the diversity of modern Arabic prose, where realism, experimentation, and intellectual exploration converge to address themes like identity, gender, political oppression, and the clash between tradition and modernity. These genres collectively reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of Arabic literature, capturing the complexities of life in a rapidly changing Arab world.

GEOPOLITICAL THEORY AND IDENTITY PATTERNS (AN INTERTEXTUAL CRITIQUE IN POETIC TEXT) GEOPOLITICAL THEORY AND IDENTITY PATTERNS (AN INTERTEXTUAL CRITIQUE IN POETIC TEXT)

This research aims to introduce the concept of geopolitical theory and its relationship to identity patterns in Arabic literary texts. It highlights the scholars' and critics' openness to the humanities and applied sciences that intersect with modern critical theories. Any shift in political perspectives that leads to changes in the landscape of a nation necessitates corresponding transformations in literary texts and subsequently in identity patterns. This study holds significant importance both in geographical and literary/critical studies, seeking to explore interdisciplinary aspects within the humanities and to express the lived Arab reality. Furthermore, it emphasizes the relevance of keeping up with the advancements in critical studies due to their influence and interaction with foreign counterparts. The research delves into the problem of identifying a connection between the dimensions of geopolitical theory from both geographical and critical perspectives. To address this, poetic models are chosen that illustrate the relationship between geopolitical theory, identity patterns, and poetic texts. The study aims to answer some research hypotheses and address its problematic aspects through the results obtained, notably the inevitability of the existence of a relationship between geopolitical theory, identity patterns, and poetic texts. The research comprises two main axes. The first axis is theoretical and explores the concept of geopolitical theory, its dimensions, and its relationship to identity patterns. It also considers the main elements that contributed to shaping geopolitical theory in literary texts, including political, cultural, social, and civilizational factors, among others. The second axis is applied and focuses on the geopolitical aspects of poetic structures, particularly in functional and prose poetry

A Study on the Translation Revision of The She King Retranslated by James Legge—Taking the English Translation of Ode as the Analysis Center

James Legge, a famous British sinologist in the 19th century, translated The She King three times in nine years, and he translated The She King into English for the first time, making great contributions to the English translation of Chinese classics. The three versions of The She King present different characteristics, so this study selects the 40 poems in Legge’s 1871 prose version, the 1876 rhymed version of The Odes in The She King, and the 38 poems in the 1879 selected translations on religious themes as the main objects of study, analyzes the translation modifications at the macro and micro levels in the retranslation of The She King to further explore the Legge’s translation. The reasons for Legge’s retranslation of The She King mainly in terms of changes in identity, adjustments in one's own religious thoughts and poetic cognition, and the care for readers. This kind of revisions and retranslations facilitated the wide dissemination and process of classics.

The Troyan War at the Court of Ivan the Terrible (transl. from English by O.V. Dmitrieva)

The Illustrated Chronicle Compilation, one of the great projects of Ivan the Terrible’s reign, included a full Russian translation of the History of the Destruction of Troy by the thirteenth century Sicilian judge, Guido delle Colonne. A prose version of a French romance of chivalry, the text fits poorly with our conceptions of sixteenth century Russian culture. Was it history or fiction? Was it secular, or is that term not useful? Partial answers come from references to the text by the boyar V. M. Tuchkov, Ivan himself, and the use of the text by later authors after the Time of Troubles.

JENS PETER JAKOBSEN'S NOVELLA “MOGENS” TRANSLATED BY OLHA KOBYLIANSKA: TEXT AND CONTEXTS

The problem of Olha Kobylianska’s interrelationship with European literature has been in the field of researchers’ vision since the Ukrainian author’s appearance in literature. The emergence of new facts related to this problem can accentuate the writer’s conscious focus on mastering the cultural experience of other literatures. O. Kobylianska often emphasized such moments in her own works, naming the authors that influenced her. Among them is the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen. Kobylianska translated Jacobsen’s short story “There Should Have Been Roses” and wrote her original work — a prose poetry “Roses”, containing some allusions and coincidences pointing to the Danish writer’s work. However, this was not the only point connecting the literary worlds of J. P. Yacobsen and O. Kobylianska.
 The other fact of such creative ‘convergence’, unknown until now, is the Ukrainian translation of J. P. Jacobsen’s novella “Mogens” (the unfinished autograph translation is kept in the Manuscript Collections and Textual Studies Department of the Institute of Literature in the fund of Olha Kobylianska under the name “Morene” and with the note “Olha Kobylianska. Unfinished story” (DM ІL, fund 14, folder 1338). The present paper offers attribution of it, including the clarified title and approximate date. The Ukrainian text of the story has been prepared for publication. The inclusion of the incomplete Ukrainian translation of J. P. Jacobsen’s novella into scholarly discourse provides new insights for assessing peculiarities and stylistic parameters of O. Kobylianska’s prose of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This fact also enhances our understanding of the historical connections between Ukrainian and European literatures, especially Danish literature. The research of O. Kobylianska and J. P. Jacobsen’s works is based on the principles of textual studies, historical-genetic approach, comparative studies, and analytical anthropology.

Shakespeare Comes to Bengal

India has the longest engagement with Shakespeare of any non-Western country. In the eastern Indian region of Bengal, contact with Shakespeare began in the eighteenth century. His plays were read and acted in newly established English schools, and performed professionally in new English theatres. A paradigm shift came with the foundation of the Hindu College in Calcutta in 1817. Shakespeare featured largely in this new ‘English education’, taught first by Englishmen and, from the start of the twentieth century, by a distinguished line of Indian scholars. Simultaneously, the Shakespearean model melded with traditional Bengali popular drama to create a new professional urban Bengali theatre. The close interaction between page and stage also evinced a certain tension. The highly indigenized theatre assimilated Shakespeare in a varied synthesis, while academic interest focused increasingly on Shakespeare’s own text.
 Beyond the theatre and the classroom, Shakespeare reached out to a wider public, largely as a read rather than performed text. He was widely read in translation, most often in prose versions and loose adaptations. His readership extended to women, and to people outside the city who could not visit the theatre. Thus Shakespeare became part of the shared heritage of the entire educated middle class. Bengali literature since the late nineteenth century testifies strongly to this trend, often inducing a comparison with the Sanskrit dramatist Kalidasa. Most importantly, Shakespeare became part of the common currency of cultural and intellectual exchange.

Color Coded Care.

The work of physicians and healthcare workers in taking care of our family and loved ones, saving lives, are a sacred task. Still, we recognize through data, that our healthcare systems are contrarily filled with inequities and medical bias that results in harm. Often, these inequities are felt among minoritized and marginalized groups, or in the case of "Color Coded Care," my mother, a retired nurse, ordained minister, wife, grandmother, and black woman. This original prose poetry piece highlights events that occurred during her 41 days of hospitalization in a neuro-intensive care unit in Florida. It is important to note that the content of this prose may trigger feelings of discomfort, particularly among providers who have taken the great Oath to give their patients the best care possible. However, it may also be a valuable and cathartic step toward repairing medical mistrust by bringing voice to experiences of healthcare related trauma. "Color Coded Care" is not an indictment, rather, it is a cry for the work that is being done to remove inequity and harmful medical bias from our healthcare systems. It is the hope for a more equitable tomorrow. "To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online."

NEW TRENDS IN MODERN KAZAKH POETRY (Based on the works of A.Elgezek, E.Zhunis, B.Karagyzuly)

In order to determine the relationship between innovation and tradition in modern Kazakh poetry, the article analyzes the poems of poets whose works became well known to the readership after two millennia. Close attention was paid to the latest trends and stylistic features of each of their poems. Special attention was paid to the syntactic structure, linguistic units and intonation composition of the poems. In the course of the study, samples of verse and poetry in prose were presented on the basis of scientific conclusions of domestic and foreign scientists related to poetry. Not only the external form of the poems was taken into account, but also the internal content, thematic and ideological features. A comparative analysis of the strophic features of the poems is carried out. The emphasis was placed on changing concepts such as syllable, segment, side, rhyme. A systematic description of how the stages of social development influenced the structure of poems is made. In addition to structural changes in modern Kazakh poetry, attention was paid to the latest trends in world poetry. The article considers the successive development of genre features that appeared in the poem system under the influence of the development of the Internet and technology. As a result of the study, the nature of the development of modern Kazakh poetry and signs of its innovation, genre changes in poetry are shown in detail. The search for modern poets in the transformation of poetry is revealed.