Translating across cultures stands for a complicated and demanding process. In his well-known article “Chinese Poetry and the English Reader,” David Hawkes discussed the challenges of translating classical Chinese poetry into English, but he failed to examine a most distinctive feature of Chinese poetry, yi jing 意境. Commonly translated as “poetic world,” yi jing is as much a cultural and philos...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors, but little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they only examined differences in the acceptability of various types of adjective metaphors. This paper explores the cognitive effects evoked by adjective metaphors. Three psychol...

“Non vide mei di me chi il vero”: L’art “verace” in the circle of proud as a mise en abyme Dante’s art Comedy The purpose this study is to discuss problem meta-poetic themes Divine Comedy, focusing particular on relationship between God’s and context impression caused by sight rock reliefs cornice Purgatorio, where poet, presenting imitating God, fact shows mastery his own art. analysis leads c...

This paper begins with the acknowledgment, on the 150th anniversary of his death, of Poe's significance as a great poetic theorist: whatever aesthetic and artistic evaluation the Bostonian Poe's work (1809-1849) may give rise to in the present-day reader, we must agree that his critical judgements of artistic works in themselves and his poetic theories have had far-reaching subsequent repercuss...

The article discusses the pictorial system of Pavel Kuznetsov, leading master Blue Rose association, and its changes in context his work at Crimean estate Novy Kuchuk-Koi 1908–14. art objects (photographed by author 2002 2021) show artist's transition from poetics ghostly visions to clear contrasting forms typical for Avant-Garde art. mosaics, ceramics frescoes reveal experience creating cyclic...

Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and physical world. Using Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore themes mystical spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes theoretical framework eco-poetry illuminate dual ecological phenomenon, ...

One of the most frustrating aspects of Homeric studies is that so little literary material outside the Homeric corpus itself survives to enhance our understanding of the cultural landscape of the period. Recent scholarship suggests that a large and diverse poetic tradition lay behind the figure we refer to as "Homer," but little of it survives. Indeed we have little continuous written Greek for...

  Poetry translation involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human s and textual a c- tors in physical and social settings. The aim of this study was to find out to what extent the non - native translator of Nizami Ganjavi’s “Leili and Majnun” could preserve the poetic imagery in its English translation. To this end, an innovative taxonomic model, which could investiga...

Abstr act. One of the most broadly investigated topics in the literature on conceptual mappings is the importance of spatial construals for thinking and talking about time. In two forthcoming articles [1] [7] we explore how people understand timelines – both as graphical objects, in discourse about timelines taken from newspapers and the web, and in poetic examples. A comparison with metaphors ...