We hypothesize that different genres of writing use different adjectives for the same concept. We test our hypothesis on lyrics, articles and poetry. We use the English Wikipedia and over 13,000 news articles from four leading newspapers for the article data set. Our lyrics data set consists of lyrics of more than 10,000 songs by 56 popular English singers, and our poetry dataset is made up of ...

In this special issue, we present different perspectives from a documentary project on curricular epistemicide. We view curriculum epistemicide —the annihilation of curriculum—as an embodied process. It limits ways knowing, questioning, and envisioning the world, it constricts multiplicity erases identity culture. Authors within volume responded to two requests: 1) they examined some form epist...

Ukrainian literature of the 1960-80s is notable for creative achievements Sixtiers, hermeticism Kyiv school poetry, Samvydav activity, and dissident nonconformism, which was aesthetically enriched by poetic movement “silent poetry”. His practice involved a latent rejection political state, imposed its ideological criteria on culture. Poets continued to defend right self-realization, gave impetu...

As for many civilizations, poetry is an essential part of Chinese literature. Poetry has influenced the development of the literature and language of both classical and vernacular Chinese. Certain of the words that we use today can be tracked all the way back to the Shijing (詩經/shi1 jing1/ [1]), c. 1046BC. Research on Chinese poetry is thus instrumental for understanding Chinese culture, and a ...

The appeal to early and medieval poetry became one of the keys rethinking origins national culture for British historians, antiquarians, textologists writers XVIII century. This article examines literary debate English writer textual critic Joseph Ritson with his colleague Thomas Wharton, author “The History Poetry”, three volumes which were published in 1774–1781. Since by middle century, hist...