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Alareer, Refaat; Omar, Noritah; Kaur, Hardev – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
While conventional critics seek the comic aspect of parody, modernist critics credit parody with questioning mainstream literary trends and subverting literary production. For instance, Mikhail Bakhtin believes in parody's power to create "a decrowning double" by turning the official worldview up-side-down. For experimental poets like…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Parody, Literary Styles
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Hosian, Mohammad Akbar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer was born and bred in Sweden, a remarkably Scandinavian country. Topographically, Scandinavian countries are locations of extreme cold and snowing. This distinguishing climatic condition has had a dominant influence and impact on almost all Scandinavian art and literature, including Tomas Tranströmer's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Poets, Climate, Content Analysis
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Al-Zubbaidi, Haitham K. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Onomatopoeia has always been a functional poetic device which enjoys a high sound significance in the poetry of many languages. In modern English and Arabic poetry alike, it proves to be vital and useful at different levels: musical, thematic and at the level of meaning. Still, the cultural difference looms large over the ways it is employed by…
Descriptors: English, Semitic Languages, Literary Devices, Poetry