TYDSKRIF VIR LETTERKUNDE • 53 (2) • 2016 Chris Dunton & Antjie Krog Chris Dunton is Professor of Literature in English at the National University of Lesotho, specialising in African literature and rhetoric studies. Email: [email protected] Antjie Krog is an award-winning poet, translator and writer of nonfiction, as well as Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape. E...

navab is a dissident poet and political thinker. he believes that he has responsibilities in relation to the arab community and the arabic governments. the present study is an attempt to study rebellion poem in arabic contemporary literature, assuming that he is one of the political opposition arab governments, so in this article we will study poetry which was written in the space of censorship...

literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, economic and cultural conditions of arab world and the domination of cruelty and exploitation caused the writers and poets to accompany the revolution of innocent countries. farouq jowaida, an egypt poet, is one...

guillaume apollinaire is a famous french poet and writer of the twentieth century. innovations in modern french poetry has caused him to be remembered as a veteran in this field and it has also added a special beauty to his poetry that cannot be seen in the poetry of other poets before him. he is often known for his “calligrammes”. alcools is his most famous collection of poems in europe, espec...

human as the superior of the creature was more important for pre-socrates, but by emerging socrates this remark become pale because he pointed to be average of human's powers. after many decades, some grand-phipspher such as kierkegaard, nietzsche, martin heidegger and jean-paul sartre entered and they have taken attention to human and established existentialism.this academy spoke about hu...

Yehoash (the pen name for Solomon Bloomgarden, 1870-1927) was a revered Yiddish poet during the interwar period, the Holocaust, and the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.1 This essay establishes a critical methodology for recovering the work of this important Jewish poet. Before Yiddish poetry became closely identified with modernism, Yehoash’s inclusive and comprehensive aesthetic received ...

social revivalism and fighting against the stagnation that entangles societies are the main reasons for nation's awakening and their freedom from colonizers and oppressors. the renowned tunisian poet, abu al-qāsim al-shābbi, has called for uprising and awakening of people throughout his poetry book and has asked people not to be indifferent about what is going on around them. in this book,...

in the mythology of nations, there has been a myth known as “the numen of poetry and art” and different cultures have samples for that. this numen has been the connecting point between human being and god (or divinities) that inspires poetry to the poet in an unconscious manner. the writer of this article has studied shahnameh and pahlavi literature to search for this myth in the culture of anc...