![]() Prosimetrum, the mixed verse and prose form, is a world-wide phenomenon attested in Indo-European literatures from ancient Sanskrit onwards, and Tolkien was familiar with prosimetric writings in other languages besides Old Norse-Icelandic: Latin and early Irish are the two most obviously relevant literatures Lisa Spangenberg rightly notes, for example, that "Perhaps the most striking connection between The Lord of the Rings and Celtic mythology is one of form Irish medieval stories mix verse and prose, with songs and poetry interspersed in the prose narrative." (448).3 The influence of Icelandic prosimetrum must, however, have been more significant than that of early Irish saga, reaching Tolkien not only directly through his reading of Old Norse literature (in translation and in the original), but also indirectly through earlier prosimetric fantasy by William Morris.4 Tolkien's creative writing.1 This work has concentrated almost exclusively on thematic rather than formal connections, but the present essay examines one of the most striking formal similarities between The Lord of the Rings and the Icelandic sagas: the mixing of verse and. Much previous scholarship has investigated the ways in which Old Norse-Icelandic literature influenced J.R.R. Where Adorno states the lyric subject manifests itself with masculine ‘unrestrained individuation’, this fails to grasp how the lyric poem can utilize strategies of concealment to stress the consequences of the lyric subject’s gendering. It finishes by looking at Theodor Adorno’s essay ‘Lyric Poetry and Society’. Contra Brandon Brown’s argument that 'Contrapposto Action Queen' articulates the dialectic of the possible and the actual, this article articulates that for Scozzaro the possible is always conditioned by fantasy. ![]() The book makes explicit that within patriarchal society, male fantasies are part of a social condition of gendered violence. Within Scozzaro’s collection these fantasies are dissected, undermined, or taken apart through exaggeration, ironization, and the use of tone. These examples are shown to be epitomes of male poetic fantasy. It takes the images of Venus and Lamia from the writing of two poets, Charles Algernon Swinburne and John Keats. You only wished you could say trying not to fall in love with the son of Vader was easy- after all, he had the galaxy at his fingertips and your head on the chopping block.This article explores how Connie Scozzaro’s 'Contrapposto Action Queen (2013)' repeatedly takes up two mystifications of femininity from classical mythology, Venus and Lamia, so as to subject them to critique. Luke Skywalker is known for passing through multitudes of hands, never asking why, or how, until the day of reckoning comes with its silver sword held high above him. i'm a lesbian but for luke skywalker i would do anything.Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.Lytehouse Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
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