T he notion of the contemporary West China literature originated in the 1980s when in 1982, the literary magazine Yang Guan proposed to start Dunhuang Arts as a particular school of literary and artistic works. In 1983, poets and critics in Gansu and Xinjiang were engaged in discussions of the emergent New Frontier Poetry. In 1984, critics such as Sun Keheng and Tang Qi pointed out that the new...

This article investigates how codes and signals were employed in avant-garde poetry and art in the 1960s, and how such attempts were performed in the wake of cybernetics and (partly) through the use of new media technologies, such as the tape recorder and the computer. This poetry*as exemplified here by works by Åke Hodell, Peter Weibel, and Henri Chopin*not only employed new materials, media, ...

Abstract An extended period of public mourning followed the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, one South Korea’s largest maritime disasters which resulted in over three hundred passenger deaths. This article examines leading contemporary Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s narration collective trauma her elegy for dead, Chugŭmŭi chasajŏn (Autobiography Death, 2016). Drawing on oral tradition, particularly songs ...

stylistic is a branch of modern linguistic which surveys and analyzes the literary styles and technical methods. formalism school is one of important modern approaches in stylistics. russian formalisms believe that only the style (frame) can determine the meaning and the concept of the context. mahmoud darvish – palestinian poet – is one of the poets who worked in modernism style. he could pres...

commitment to social issues of human being is a dominant theme in contemporary poetry which introduces poets to the history who make an attempt to depict social concepts and solve the problems of society. abd al-wahhab al-bayyati and mehdi akhavan sales are two prominent poets who move along this atmosphere. they live in two communities with similar social conditions. due to common beliefs and ...

yahyaal-samawi, iraqi poet, is one of the most prominent figures of resistance literature and contemporary arabic poetry. al-samawi defended his motherland with his poems, and in this course he went through torture, adversary, and moving out of his land. he started writing his resistance poems during ba’athist rule in iraq under saddam. he played an important role in opposing saddamists’ misgui...

this study aims to examine how the poetry of mamduh udvan was affected by quranic inspirations and show how the high language and noble meanings of the quran enhanced the modern poetry to artistic levels. this search for inspiration in udvan’s poetry has different manifestations examples of which are provided at two levels in this article: 1) lexical levels in which the poet resort to quranic l...

irony is a mysterious communicative language between writer and reader and among its beauties, brevity and oddity and duality of meaning can be referred to. so it is considered as one of the best means of interpretation in an indirect way to reform society. this article elaborates on irony in terms of language and terminology with emphasis on the most important available works in this area. the...