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Gargi Bhattacharya, Rabindra Bharati University Download PDF Version Abstract John Ashbery (1927- ) takes the postmodernist polysemy of meaning in interpreting a work of art and the polyphony of styles in composing as his forte. He questions the various linguistic...
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Matt Shedd, University of Oregon, USA Download PDF Version Abstract Bob Dylan’s recent albums have returned to a more basic sense of American vernacular and poetics, employing stock phrases that evoke a rural America of the past. However, the past does not...
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Dipanjan Maitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Download PDF Version Abstract This paper is an attempt to explore the relation between poetry and survival taking as a point of focus the poetry of the post-war European poet Paul Celan. By drawing attention to the French...
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Susmita Paul, Independent Scholar Download PDF Version Abstract Memory as a narrative is a vindicated thesis in academia. In the article, the author focuses on the nature and the function of ‘memory’ in the poetry of Joy Harjo, an indigenous American poet with tribal...
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Amit Bhattacharya, University of Gour Banga Download PDF Version Abstract In this paper, I have tried to analyze a few poems by Elizabeth Bishop to show how she takes up or takes in shifting identities and subject-positions in a clear dialogue with cultural norms and...
by Admin | Nov 21, 2013 | Poetry, Vol 3 No 2
Murali Sivaramakrishnan is a poet, painter and critic. He is Professor and Head Department of English at Pondicherry Central University. Artworks Faultlines-2, 1997 Stones of Silence-1, 2000 The Power of Black, 2006 Vivarta-1, 2009 Vivarta-13, 2009 Vivarta-27, 2009...