Matko Peić presented his travels through Egypt, Israel, China, India, Japan, the Philippines, most of Europe and whole Croatia in several travelogues – Skitnje (Strolls, 1965), Jesen u Poljskoj (Autumn Poland, 1969), Crno zlato (Black Gold, 1974), Ljubav na putu. Od Drave do Jadrana (Love on Road. From Drava to Adriatic, 1984) Evropske skitnje (European Strolls, 1985) which earned him status on...

Synopsis The Dekaaz poetic form, similar to haiku with its constrained syllable counts per line, invites a connection between poetry and mathematics. Determining the number of possible Dekaaz variations leads to some interesting counting observations. We discuss two different ways to count the number of possible Dekaaz variations, one using a binary framework and the other approaching the count...

Despite the concern over the loss of poetic images in the translation process, the translation practice of poetry never ceases. As the result of different approaches to the poetic imagery, the poetic images might be preserved, lost or replaced by others. The hermeneutic approach, with a view to preserving the alterity of an alien culture, would like the original image to be preserved as much as...

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...

mowlavi’s sonnets have been repeatedly and from different points of views analyzed by several famed literary characters. considering the structure and features of sonnet, as a poetic form, and its evolution course, it seems that mowlavi is offering a new version of narrative sonnet – the issue had been paying attention by attar and sanaie before him. ‘what measures and techniques had mowlavi us...