The Atlantic

Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative, and Satirical, of the Civil War

Selected and Edited by RICHARD GRANT WHITE. New York: The American News Company. WE confess that our heart had at times misgiven us concerning the written and printed poetry of our recent war ; but ...
The Daily Texan

Michener Center alumni talk witty poems, inherent humanness

Chasing rodents around a small one-bedroom apartment, reflecting in one’s daily three-hour-long shower and “Behind These ...
PBS

Storytelling and Recitation

A friend of a friend told me . . . . Traditional stories are passed down orally, told as truth or told as fiction. Traditional narrative forms include folktales, myths, epics, legends, parables, and ...
JSTOR Daily

The Fall Into Narrative: Negative Verticality In French Romantic Poetry

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Lamartine's La Chute d'un ange, Vigny's "Eloa," and Hugo's visionary poetry all associate the movement from lyric to verse narrative with a ...
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Play the Man: Parody, Sex, and Masculinity in Sami Tchak’s "Place des fêtes"

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Togolese novelist Sami Tchak’s Place des fêtes (2001) is a torrential narrative of sex, including rape, incest, homosexuality, and ...