Through offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]

As Seyed-Gohrab rightly mentions in the introduction to this volume, “poets and writers are so essential in the turbulent history of twentieth-century Iran that any history of modern Iran neglecting the role of literature … would be seriously incomplete” (14). This volume, focusing on the second half of the twentieth century, provides a his…[Read more]

Building on the author’s PhD thesis on “the British cultural and imaginative engagements with Persia in the nineteenth century” (vi), the volume charts “the diversity of perceptions associated with Persia in Victorian literary culture” (2). It focuses on poetry as the medium through which to survey the Victorian conception of Persia. It consists…[Read more]

This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

There seems to be a continuum between Fernando Pessoa’s metadrama of heteronyms and his strict-sense plays, but this is more hypothesis than theory, because Pessoa’s dramas—notwithstanding the editions of Teatro Estático (2017) and Fausto (2018)—are still largely unknown. Written between 1903–1908, the tragedy of Marino is the earliest of Pessoa’…[Read more]

Lady Liberty! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (2021). Evolutionary Mathematics and Art for Bilingual Poems. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王 抗 曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 3, March 2021; 43 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA.…[Read more]

What a charming smile 😉 * Artwork by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND

HELLcome to ameriKKKa! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND

A Haunting of Haunts is a collection of media kits that allow artists to reenact or create new networked performance art based on landmark performances. It provides media in image and 3D formats that can be employed within a number of networked environments.

This article discusses a selection from a series of performances created between 2008 and 2019 that as practice as research (PaR) explore ideas of identity, representation and place as they relate to the intersection of what are termed ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ spaces. These include I’m Garrett Lynch (IRL) (2010), I’m not Garrett Lynch (IRL) – Ident…[Read more]

BIS REPETITA PLACENT! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

CORVIDS * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

QRt is the new pop ARt! – by PRURITUS MIGRANS – CC-BY-NC-ND

Nino Migliori, bolognese classe 1923, è una delle figure fondamentali del panorama fotografico italiano – e non solo – che sin dai primi anni di attività ha saputo dare un contributo profondamente originale a quel dibattito estetico che andava delineandosi negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso, bilicato, com’era, tra il formalismo di eredità cr…[Read more]

Mai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]

Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans’s relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of…[Read more]

Enjoy Caustic Humour! * Caustic Humour by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

There’s an old story about a young person who finds something magical in the woods. They return to it again and
again. Each visit bringing joy to their felt-sense of being alive. Eventually as people do, they tell someone else. The
good news spreads and others start to visit. Then crowds gather, which need to be organized. It isn’t long bef…[Read more]

IGNIS – by PRURITUS MIGRANS – CC: BY-NC-ND