Narrative and contemporary poetry

Portuguese Narrative Poetry

Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry

In his article "Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry" the debate on hybridization tends to overemphasize the blurring of boundari types in all possible forms: combination of types within a given work (multimodal "image comics and photo-novels, sound poetry, etc.), adaptation and remediation one (filmic adaptations of novels or novelizations of films, for instance), and, more generall...

Inescapable Stories: The Infiltration of Narrative into Non-Narrative Poetry

Narrative permeates our lives, often without our noticing. We commonly recognise it in conventional arenas of storytelling, such as in the oral tradition, or in prose and film. There is also a long-held classification, narrative poetry within that particular literary art. I am exploring how narrative exists in more subtle expressions, especially within so-called lyric poetry. Can a supposedly n...

Narrative Tradition In Early Greek Oral Poetry And Vase-Painting

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

The Classicist Approach of Yaghma Magazine toward Contemporary Poetry

Yaghma, The literary magazine in the field of poetry, started its activity with the aim of preserving ancient achievements and countering every kind of unapproved innovations and novelty. This was in spite of the fact that many years had passed since the beginning of modern poetry and there have emerged famous figures in Nimaei poetry. The present article intends to see how much Yaghma was succ...