The Bounded Body and the Boundless Nature: Expressions of Old Age in Greek and Chinese Lyrics
By Pei He (New York University)
Affect scholars, such as Sedgewick (2003) and Brinkema (2014), suggest reading a text for moments of intensity. Lyric poetry thus provides fertile ground for such study of affect, given its snapshots of transient moments and lack of action. In this paper I examine affect evoked by aging, a universal motif of human existence, as expressed in both Archaic Greek Lyrics and Classical Chinese lyrics.
Leda and the Swan in the Work of Three African American Women Poets: June Jordan (1936-2002), Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) and Lyrae Van Clief-Stephanon (1971- )
By Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University)
Leda and the Swan in the Work of Three African American Women Poets: June Jordan (1936-2002), Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) and Lyrae Van Clief-Stephanon (1971- )
Dramatic Bodies and Collective Agency in Carlus Padrissa's Bacchae
By Alessandra Migliara (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
At the beginning of the adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae performed by La fura dels Baus and directed by Carlus Padrissa (Siracusa, Italy, 2021), Dionysus introduces himself as “mujera, hija, hermana, guerrera, compañera”. Indeed, throughout the performance, Dionysus, who was played by a young actress, appears to be a companion to the other bacchants, a fellow warrior, rather than a god who possesses them.