Featuring work by: Eugénio de Andrade, Anonymous, A. James Arnold, Rito Ramón Aroche, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Susan Bernofsky, Aloysius Bertrand, Paul Blackburn, Daniel Borzutzky, André Breton, Garrett Caples, Valerie Mejer Caso, RosalÍa de Castro, Paul Celan, Aimé Césaire, René Char, Beatritz de Dia, Kristin Dykstra, Paul Éluard, Clayton Eshlema…[Read more]

Work by: Etel Adnan – Demosthenes Agrafiotis – Will Alexander – Rachel Tzvia Back – Dan Bellm – Aleksandr Blok – Pura López Colomé – Colin Dayan – René Depestre – Rachel Blau DuPlessis – Marcella Durand – Sarah Tuss Efrik – Elke Erb – Peter France – Johannes Göransson – David Hadbawnik – Larry Kearney – Alexis Levitin – Brian Lucas – Michèle Méta…[Read more]

This essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. The methodology of hard…[Read more]

The aim of this article is to study the complete poetry of Luis de Góngora using a contrastive analysis. To this end, the poems, which do not pose any attribution problem, published in digital format by the Observatoire de la vie littéraire (OBVIL) have been selected (with the exception of theatre) and divided into three parts on the basis of a c…[Read more]

Text of a talk I gave on March 1 at the Translation Symposium held in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the 3rd International JLPP International Translation Competition at Gakushi Kaikan, Tokyo.

Every code text is informed by stylistic decisions that impact how the text is interpreted and understood. While software developers have long discussed concerns of style in regards to writing code, scholars of computation would benefit from a rhetorical approach to style, an approach that links style to substance and sees style as situated and…[Read more]

The enthymeme, while serving as the central basis for heuristic invention, also works at the local or sentence level as a rhetorically oriented algorithmic procedure through which a rhetor determines the most probable success in persuading an audience to action.

Scholars of, or interested in, rhetoric have an opportunity to build upon the emerging body of work from the fields of software studies and critical code studies in order to explore the potential for meaning-making made possible through code and its expression(s). Over the last decade, rhetoric has significantly expanded to incorporate image,…[Read more]

Discussion of Yoel Hoffmann’s book “Japanese Death Poems”

Desde inicios del siglo XX el interés por la génesis de las Soledades ha ido aparejado con la preparación de nuevas ediciones del texto gongorino. Gracias a los pioneros trabajos de Dámaso Alonso se supo que el texto de la Soledad primera que se divulgó en 1613 entre unos pocos allegados de Góngora no era idéntico al texto que don Antonio Chacón…[Read more]

This occasional paper tries to analyze stylistically Cumming’s poem entitled “‘kitty’. sixteen, 5′ 11″, white, prostitute” in two aspects: the deviations in graphology and capitalization.

“Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality” is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

After the dissemination of Luis de Góngora’s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea in 1613, a number of Spanish poets expanded the treatment of myths and established a dialogue with Ovid’s Metamorphoses. As a result of this process, a great amount of short epic poems was composed in the following years. This article aims to achieve three objectives: first…[Read more]

This study investigates how digital mapping of lyrical spaces and publication statistics illuminate modernista participation of the global literary field. Using gathered spatial data points from poetic editions from Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo reveal a rich intertextual and geospatial web. The cosmopolitanism and globalized erudition of m…[Read more]

The aims of this article are threefold: first, to revise some key concepts on the theory of scholarly digital editions such as scale and interactivity; second, to present the principles of XML/TEI encoding model and highlight the representation of the critical apparatus; third, to describe the methodology implemented to encode scribal and…[Read more]

The aims of this article are threefold: first, to revise some key concepts on the theory of scholarly digital editions such as scale and interactivity; second, to present the principles of XML/TEI encoding model and highlight the representation of the critical apparatus; third, to describe the methodology implemented to encode scribal and…[Read more]

La fértil labor de difusión de la lírica cancioneril efectuada por la editorial Cancioneros Castellanas engalana su colección con un nuevo y fino trabajo publicado. En esta ocasión, se trata de una antología poética aurisecular, conocida desde antaño en la academia con el nombre de Cartapacio de Penagos. Sin embargo, los integrantes del prolífi…[Read more]