The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders government, face also prominently biometrics that feed posthuman questions anxieties. For while one requirement is concerned with “unicity,” or which identifies an individual as unique, anothe...

This study aims to assess the adequacy of form German sonnets when reproduced in English translations. The focus is on interrogative sentences, which, together with sonnet a macro-sentence, shortened verse and enjambment, are characteristics innovative features Sonnets Orpheus by R. M. Rilke. lyrical cycle among most translated into world languages Rilke’s poetry works, as well Duino Elegies. B...

The article examines A. Mickiewicz’s “Crimean Sonnets” in the context of geopolitics, anthropology, and literary imagology. Attention is focused on phenomenon knowing Other, situation cultural frontier Polish émigré poet, founder national romanticism, reformer language, author works about Lithuania Ukraine, researcher Slavonia. Paris lectures Mickiewicz, which Ukraine appears as personification...